MP3 player with bookmarks?

[Janina Sajka]

Well, any development work undertaken today should be DAISY 3.0 based. I think we'll get 3.01 later this year, and we should have both text and audio/package validation tools as well. I hope the validators are usable--these folks are currently so deeply into Microsoft products their tools may not port well (e.g. requiring MS XML libraries).

As for writing new apps, I have only one thing to say:

Python.

Guy Abandon. writes:
> <<Listen-up was mentioned as a possible solution.  That is indeed a software
> solution that is free and runs on Linux.>>
> 
> This I'll have to pursue.  And to think my cousin produced a neat utility
> for producing the simpler daisy books which is in fact  the mp3 files, the
> smil files as offset markers into the mp3s and of course the ncc.html file
> to start it all off.  This was alas, done in DOS under Q.Basic would you
> believe and he's neither a C or even a Pascal programmer; so porting would
> get a tad tricky.  I forgot basic when I learned Pascal and forgot C through
> lack of use after leaving Uni' a considerable while ago.
> 
> Thanks all,
> 
> GA!
> 
> 
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				Janina Sajka, Director
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