MP3 player with bookmarks?

[Janina Sajka]

It's not correctly implemented and I have raised the issue with Jim Fruchterman. The answer is good news--they will fix it but not until the DAISY 3 text validator is available because they don't want to fix things more than once. I agree with that strategy.

Steve Holmes writes:
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> OK, I stand corrected.  I just remember earlier last year an issue
> being raised about Bookshare's not implementing daisy completely or
> correctly or something.  I just hope the developers of daisy players
> can keep up with the emerging standard.  From my limitted vantage
> point, it sounds like the standard is rapidly changing and wonder
> about players' keeping up.  
> 
> I think it is exciting that Canada and Britain are going all the way
> with daisy and yet I haven't heard word one from my regional library
> as to when daisy would be wide use here in the US.  RFB makes their
> stuff available in daisy but they told me I had to use a special
> secret proprietary player from them to use their books.  They told me
> supposedly that other players would not work with their materials.
> Too bad, I'd say.
> 
> On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 08:59:20AM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote:
> > Wait a minute--before you start throwing stones ...
> > 
> > BookShare's implementation is based on the DAISY 3.0 specification. Listen-Up was initially built to do DAISY 2.02. So, don't blame either one.
> > 
> > I'm sure Kirk will get DAISY 3.0 working in Listen-Up after I can get him some content that's both audio and text to work with. Almost none of that is available yet. Even the validators aren't built yet.
> > 
> > So, please be more cautious to get your facts right before casting wholesale aspersions
> > Steve Holmes writes:
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> > > Listen-up was mentioned as a possible solution.  That is indeed a
> > > software solution that is free and runs on Linux.  I haven't played
> > > with it for quite some time now.  I thought I saw some bookmarks
> > > feature in there but also don't know if it actually works or not.  I
> > > kind of gave up on it for a while since I don't have any daisy books
> > > here to read and Bookshare's implementation apparently sucks because
> > > it won't work with listen-up!
> > > 
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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina at afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175