[gui-talk] free daisy player

[Gerald Levy]

Joel,

I am already on the waiting list of my local NLS network library for a new 
digital talking book player, but I have been told that it could take up to 
three years before I actually receive one.  The library expects to receive 
its firtst batch of digital players next month, but because they are a 
branch of the New York Public Library, they are notoriously slow and 
inefficient.  Having listened to a number of podcasts about this device, I'm 
pretty familiar with its controls and operation.  But I wouldn't put it past 
the Obama administration to cut funding for the NLS to pay for his health 
care plan, so I wouldn't be surprised if I don't receive one for five years.

Gerald

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joel Deutsch" <jdeutsch at dslextreme.com>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 11:33 AM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] free daisy player


> Gerald,
>
> DTB? Does that mean Daisy Talking Book? I don't think that technology 
> plays
> any part at all in this program.
>
> Which is to say, the NLS has been running a program out of their regional
> libraries, such as my local Braille Institute Library and others from 
> Texas
> to New York, handing out the new NLS digital Players to people who put
> themselves on the list as interested, for some months now. There are basic
> players and advanced players, with one more  row of navigation buttons,
> which I'd have ordered if I knew they existed when I signed up.
>
> They are meant to be used two was. One by inserted a plastic cartridge 
> that
> looks like a skinny audiocassette, the other by downloading files from the
> online thing. Library.
>
> Where are you, New York I think? Call your most local participating 
> library
> from which you get NLS books on tape and ask them what's going on, and 
> don't
> forget to express your interest. There's a new shipment doming to those
> branches for distribution end of august.
> Joel
>
> P.S. This is all audio files, as far as I know. Nothing to do with Daisy.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Gerald Levy" <bwaylimited at verizon.net>
> To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 3:39 AM
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] free daisy player
>
>
>
> Exactly how were you able to get your hands on an NLS DTB player?  They
> aren't even available here yet.
>
> Gerald
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Joel Deutsch" <jdeutsch at dslextreme.com>
> To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 2:49 AM
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] free daisy player
>
>
>> Steve,
>>
>> Don't worry about that. As i said in an earlier post, I am subscribed to
>> the
>> BARD site for downloading files, but I play them on the NLS didgital
>> player.
>> See? So I was just trying to figure out what Albert was talking about. 
>> I'm
>> starting to piece something together, to the effect that NLS digital
>> player
>> users have no impediment to playing the files on those devices, but the
>> only
>> other device that's currently known to play them is the Stream, and in
>> order
>> to transffer a BARD book onto the Stream and get it to play, you have to
>> make some sort of special arrangement with the NLS under which, for $10,
>> they sell you either a key that's good forever or make you pay that same
>> amount every single time you download a book from the site. That may be
>> quite a difference to not be sure of, but it's closer than I was before.
>> Or
>> at least I think so.
>>
>> read knowen
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Steve Pattison" <srp at internode.on.net>
>> To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 10:49 PM
>> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] free daisy player
>>
>>
>> Hi Joel,
>>
>> Thanks for your message.  Actually I'm not able to answer any of your
>> questions about playing NLS files on the Victor Stream because I live in
>> Australia and we're not able to have access to NLS materials here and
>> because of that I haven't made an effort to find out how the BARD site
>> works.  Hopefully someone else on the list will be able to help.
>>
>> Regards Steve.
>>
>> On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 22:42:00 -0700
>> "Joel Deutsch" <jdeutsch at dslextreme.com> wrote:
>>> Okay, Steve. So you pay this fee for each and every book file you
>>> download
>>> from the NLS BARD site? Or you pay once in order to make your Stream
>>> support
>>> the BARD files? How does this work?
>>> also, none of this has anything at all to do with the RFD etc. people?
>>
>> Regards Steve
>> Email:  srp at internode.on.net
>> MSN Messenger:  internetuser383 at hotmail.com
>> Skype:  steve1963
>>
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