daisy-player

Daisy-player - A parser to play Daisy CD’s with Linux
©2003-2020 J. Lemmens

Description

Daisy-player reads a DAISY-CD and plays its audio-files.
Daisy-player also CAN PLAY Audio-cd’s and tries to fetch info using cddbget.

Requirements

Be sure the following extra packages exist on your system:

libncursesw5
libsox2
libsox-fmt-pulse
libxml2
libmagic1
libmad0
gettext
udisks2
language-pack-af
language-pack-cs
language-pack-de
language-pack-es
language-pack-fi
language-pack-fr
language-pack-hu
language-pack-it
language-pack-ml
language-pack-nb
language-pack-nl
language-pack-pl
language-pack-pt
language-pack-sl
language-pack-sv
libcdio-cdda1
libcdio-paranoia1
libcddb-get-perl
tex-common
unar

The following packages are needed to make the manual and the html document:

txt2man
man2html

Usage

As a mortal user, put a DAISY-cd or an Audio-cd in your cd-player and, on the command line, give:

$ Daisy-player

This starts reading the cd and printing the content on the screen. After giving an [ENTER], playing the audio files starts.

One could also give a directory or a ZIP-file with a daisy structure as argument to daisy-player:

$ daisy-player /home/jos/daisy_dir
$ daisy-player /home/jos/daisy.zip

A list of items on the DAISY-CD will appear. Press <ENTER> to start playing. When reading of an item has finished, daisy-player will play the next item and the cursor will automatically skip to that item, so that your braille-terminal will display the name of that item.
Daisy-player plays the audio on the default sound device.

For keyboard navigation, plese press 'h' or '?'.

daisy-player is multilingual. The following languages are currently supported:
czech, dutch, english, finish, french, german, hungarian, italian, kerala, norwegian, polish, portuguese, slovenian, south-african, spanish, Swedish.

Enjoy

Jos Lemmens

Note

From his brother Kees on November 9, 2021 : I am very sorry to inform you that Jos quietly passed away this morning. He will be remembered as our own dear, clever, little "Stephen Hawking".

On behalf of users of eBook-speaker and Daisy-player, current mainteners would also thank him for his tremendous work. Jos, we miss you.