[gui-talk] free daisy player

[David Andrews]

Joel, the NLS books are DAISY Digital Talking Books.  A DAISY book 
can contain audio, text, or various combinations of audio and 
text.  NLS books are daisy books, RFB&D books are DAISY books, and 
Bookshare.org books are also DAISY books.

Dave

At 10:33 AM 8/12/2009, you wrote:
>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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