[gui-talk] free daisy player

Wed Aug 12 23:16:06 UTC 2009

Wayne,

I have an NLS digital player and download files to play on it, using a thumb 
drive stuck into the port on its side. Bad design flaw for those who don't 
care to use borrowed cartridges, but someday there will be blank cartrridges 
(which are essentially flash drives in a plastic shell) we can buy to use 
instead of having to stick a thumb drive into the thing.

anyway, I'm fine with the processs. No problem. I was trying to figure out 
what others were talking about. Thanks, though. No worries.
cartrigges,digitia
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Wayne Merritt" <wcmerritt at gmail.com>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 3:57 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] free daisy player

Joel: there's no extra steps needed to download or play files on an
authorized digital talking book player other than what people have
said here. So as not to get confused, you would go through a process
on the NLS BARD site where you request a key (which is free, as in no
cost to the user), and between nLS and the manufacturer of the player
that you have, you will eventually get a key that you can use to
authorize the player to play the digital talking books with. If anyone
has paid $10 or $20 for an NLS key, then you paid too much since the
key is FREE, written in all caps. Pardon me for shouting, but this
fact has been stated numerous times by myself and other people.
Honestly folks, I'm getting tired of deleting messages for a thread
that has started to ware thin. Unless something different needs to be
said, this will likely be the last one I reply to on this topic. So
far,the only service where you would pay for a key to play material
from is Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic. You could download
material from the BARD site, but if you don't have an authorized NLS
player, which includes the VR Strea, GW Micro's Booksense, the
Plextalk Pocket, and/or the Icon/Braille Plus Mobile manager, or any
other player that is authorized to play NLS content including the NLS
new talking book machine, those files on your computer won't do you
any good. If you only have the new NLS talking book machine, then
there's nothing else you need do--except download and read to your
heart's content.

Sincerely and kind regards,
Wayne

On 8/12/09, Joel Deutsch <jdeutsch at dslextreme.com> wrote:
> Key for NlS? what sort of key?I download files from the BARD online
> catalogue and I don't need a key, just my ID and pass to log onto the 
> site.
> Is there something different that happens if you aren't going to listen to
> one of these files on your NLS digital player? You have to tell them 
> you're
> to play it on your Stream,for example, and then in some way they "send" 
> you
> a "key?" You can't hear the quotation marks around those two words, but
> they're there. They indicate that I don't exactly know what's meant. 
> Thanks.
> What happens? You send them the model number of your device, and they send
> you a secret membership number that you have to type in somewhere before 
> you
> can transfer the files (many of them, for these digital books, I mean just
> for one book, might be more than a dozen files), and then they'll transfer
> to your Stream and you can play them?
>
> Or? Someone please describe how this work. Maybe I'll win the lottery and
> buy a Stream, and then I'll have to understand this stuff.
>
> thanks.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "albert griffith" <albertgriffith at sbcglobal.net>
> To: "'NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List'" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 12:08 PM
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] free daisy player
>
>
> I just checked my receipts and I didn't have to pay for the activation key
> to download NLS books.  I did have to pay for the one I got from RFB And D
> which cost $10.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Hoffman, Allen
> Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 1:09 PM
> To: gui-talk at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [gui-talk] free daisy player
>
> Lets b clear and accurate here.
>
> I did not have to pay extra for an NLS certificate.
> I didn't pay for the update for the NLS certificate for my stream.
> I don't pay for certificates for bard.loc.gov when downloading books for
> my stream.
>
> Less clear or accurate:
>
>
> The PDA from LevelStar has an NLS certificate also I think.
> The Book Sense probably will also.
>
> PC-based readers don't have an NLS certificate at present for some
> unfounded fears somewhere between NLS and publishing communities.  We
> need to get to the root of this, and start working to a reasonable
> solution.  I suppose the blindness community is not a favorite in some
> publishing circles at present due to our insistence on access to
> electronic materials, but NLS should be a driver for change of culture
> in the publishing community as well as a service provider.
>
>
>
>
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