[nabs-l] learning ally change with WMA

[Ashley Bramlett]

Chris,
I do already order the daisy cds and they are mailed to me. I don't think 
they are playable on the computer. If so, how do you do that? I thought you 
had to play them in  a daisy player. As I said the daisy players are no 
longer made such as the victor reader wave.
My wave is dying; it is old so I cannot play the daisy cds in them. playing 
a daisy cd on the pc would be great though if its doable.

I also like reading braille betterand I assume you read on a braille 
display; those are very expensive and they wear out. my braille note display 
is wearing out and its pins of certain cells are weak. So consider yourself 
lucky to have a display if you daily use it.
What format are bookshare books in anyway? Not audio? Its .brf right?
If .brf, that is how you read them on your display I suppose.
Ashley

-----Original Message----- 
From: Chris Nusbaum
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2012 8:09 PM
To: 'National Association of Blind Students mailing list'
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] learning ally change with WMA

Ashley,

I'm not sure about the WMA thing. Did RFB&D send that announcement out in an 
email to all of its members? If so, I haven't seen it, unless I missed it.

To answer your question about how we play our RFBD books, I play mine on my 
Victor Reader Stream. My school's stupid firewall blocks the download of 
large files, including books, so I have to order the book in DAISY CD 
format, which I wish wasn't the case. I then use the Humanware Companion 
software on my computer to transfer the content on the DAISY CD onto my 
Stream. If you are interested in upgrading from the Classic to the Stream, I 
and most of my blind friends found the Stream to be very easy to learn. If 
you have any questions about using the Stream, feel free to email me 
off-list and I will try to help. I say the same to any other people on this 
list who might be having issues with your Streams or are interested in 
upgrading to the Stream, but have some questions.

Also, if you ordered a DAISY copy of the book you need, I believe it can be 
played on a computer if you don't want a DAISY player such as the Stream. 
These DAISY CD's can be ordered from RFBD's Web site and mailed to you. By 
the way, to be honest, I find myself using RFBD less and less, and Bookshare 
more and more. There's just something I like about reading a book, 
especially one for school, in Braille, even if it is on a Braille display.

Hope this helps,

Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf 
Of Ashley Bramlett
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2012 6:23 PM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: [nabs-l] learning ally change with WMA

Hi all,

Do any of you use the WMA, windows media audio, to play books? How does it 
work? Do you navigate from chapter to chapter? If so how?
I’d like to try it as it’s a convenient free way to do it before this change 
is taking place.

Did you all know that in May Learning ally is no longer supporting WMA? They 
say due to industry standards they cannot offer WMA format anymore and are 
urging members to get a daisy player. I don’t know why they are taking away 
options. But this doesn’t sound good.  Before I believe you could play their 
books in WMA format on any computer; now this won’t be the case.

What do you all think? How do you play your learning ally books? And many 
daisy players humanware discontinued; like the victor reader classic and 
wave.

Ashley
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