[nabs-l] learning ally change with WMA

[Chris Nusbaum]

Ashley,

You can download Bookshare books in either DAISY audio, BRF, or now MP3 audio.

Chris

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From: nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Ashley Bramlett
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2012 9:23 PM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] learning ally change with WMA

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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