[nfb-talk] new accessibility to materials

[David Andrews]

Buddy:

It is true that a daisy book is generally a collection of MP3 files, 
with navigation and other information in other kinds of 
files.  However, the DAISY specification does not explicitly name a 
codec, so it could be something else.  Next, depending on the tool or 
tools used to produce the book, the audio could be encrypted, and it 
could have nonsense names, or it could be in a random order, and 
broken up into many or just a few files.  So, you might be able to 
access audio in a usable way, but you may not be able to and 
shouldn't count on it.

Dave

At 02:37 PM 12/3/2006, you wrote:
>On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 01:47:47PM -0600, Peter Donahue wrote:
>  Let us
> > also not forget that one must have hardware or software capable of playing
> > books rendered in the DAISY Format.
>
>Not necessarily. As I understand it, the audio component of DAISY
>books is generally a collection of MP3 files, so these can be played
>on anything capable of playing MP3's. Of course, it's true that one
>must have a DAISY player to take advantage of navigation features, and
>probably to read the text portion of the books.
>
>
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