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When I try to read in daisy-player it skips all of the content and exits with no error

Asked by Caden Howell

I am running Ubuntu 14.04. I downloaded a free DAISY format book from bookshare.org, "Six Great Sherlock Holmes Stories" at https://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/13897 as a zip file. Then I attempted to read it with daisy-player from the command line with the command

daisy-player Six_Great_Sherlock_Holmes_Storie_Daisy_text_only.zip

daisy-player starts up, and I can see the book title and Table of Contents. When I hit enter, it very quickly jumps down from line to line and exits with no error. I do not hear anything being read aloud.

I had the same results with the Software Center version and then from the newest version, 10.3, which I downloaded and built from source.

To clarify, I am not interested in reading one of the non-DAISY formats available from bookshare.org, I'm interested in a DAISY player that works on Ubuntu so that I can work with the DAISY format.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Does it work ok with calibre?

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Caden Howell (cadenhowell) said : 		#2

I've not used Calibre before, but I just downloaded from the Ubuntu Software Center it and tried to add the zip file as a book. When I did that and tried to view it, it opened it in archive manager.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

From your link in the question, I used the rightmost file link and opened it without issue (it's a simple text file)

Have you tried that?

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Caden Howell (cadenhowell) said : 		#4

The other formats work fine for me in their respective readers, but that's not the issue I'm having.

I am trying to read the DAISY format file. As far as I know daisy-player is the most mature/tested/ubiquitous DAISY book reader for linux. The issue is not whether I can read the content from the other formats, but whether I can find a linux application which will read DAISY book files. To be more specific, I am interested in the leftmost link, with the orange daisy flower icon and the title or alt text "Download in DAISY". I need to be able to smoke-test DAISY format files, and it would be nice not to have to launch a Windows VM in order to bring up an application that does that. I am able to read the DAISY files in the "Read:OutLoud 6 Version 2.1 Bookshare Edition" application in Windows, for example.

I also found this link, which although old (2012), isn't very promising for support for DAISY in calibre: http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=171797 Did calibre start supporting it since then?

Could the limitation be in DAISY versions supported? Are there any flags I can pass to daisy-reader which will cause it to dump debug information, or does it write errors to a log somewhere?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#5

Never heard of it personally. Calibre is available on all platforms and rocks.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_e-book_formats

Seems epub is more widely used.

Have you ran:

sudo apt-get install daisy-player

To install the reader?

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