[nabs-l] learning ally change with WMA

[Bill]

Hi,
I use the FSReader program on my computer for both reding downloaded
and for reading cds. It is a free program you can get from Freedom
Scientific. You have to authorize it to play the Learning Ally books
but if you are a member, it is easy to do and is also free.
Bill

On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 7:23 PM, Ashley Bramlett
<bookwormahb at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 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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Bill Casson
University of New Mexico
M.S. Computer Science
Lewis & Clark Alumnus '11
B.A. Physics and Math/Comp Sci.
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