Preparing DAISY books for playback on enhanced Vine Players

Preparing DAISY books for playback on Enhanced Vine Players

Vine Players are economical and simple solar-powered audio book players from Solar Grove Solutions. See the article Vine Player Overview for more information.

Enhanced Vine Players support navigation based on chapters and sub-headings. These players have complex folder structure. Their internal memory is locked. A special cable and application is required to create or copy content on them. Users cannot add or delete content on the internal memory. Once an organisation prepares and copies books on the player, users are not able to make any changes. Vine player models E1, E2 and S2 players are in this category. They are referred as “Enhanced Vine players”.

Books with 3 level navigation

Enhanced Vine Players support navigation by chapters and sub-sections. To be able to do this, it needs audio book to be stored in a very complex folder structure. Fortunately, DAISY Pipeline app can convert DAISY audio book into this complex folder structure. We just have to do this conversion and copy the entire book with its sub-folders on the enhanced Vine player. During conversion, we will choose “depth level 3” in the DAISY Pipeline app. By doing this, we will get following navigation options:

• Book navigation, such as Book 1, Book 2, Book 3 and so on.
• Moving to next or previous chapter within every book. Such as, Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3 and so on.
• Moving to next or previous subsection within a chapter. Such as, Chapter 1, Subsection 1.1, Subsection 1.2, Subsection 1.3, Chapter 2, Subsection 2.1, Subsection 2.2, and so on.
• Moving to next or previous sub-subsections within sub-section. Such as,
  • Chapter 1
    • Sub-section 1.1
    • Subsection 1.2
      • Sub-sub-section 1.2.1
      • Sub-sub-section 1.2.2
    • Sub-section 1.3
  • Chapter 2
    • Sub-section 2.1
      • Sub-sub-section 2.1.1
      • Sub-sub-section 2.1.2

      And so on

      Conversion with DAISY Pipeline app

      To convert DAISY audio book for enhanced Vine Players with 3 level navigation facility, do the following:

      Install and open the free DAISY Pipeline App, the multi-format converter which includes a script to convert DAISY audio books to Vine Player format.

      

      1. Start the DAISY Pipeline App and wait for the Pipeline engine to start
      2. In “Select a script” select “DAISY 2.02 to navigable MP3 file-set” or “DAISY 2.02 to navigable MP3 file-set”
      3. Click the browse button and select the “.opf” file in case of DAISY 3 and “ncc.html” file in case of DAISY 2.02 inside the DAISY book folder.
      4. In “Folder depth” select “3”.
      5. Run the job by clicking the “Run” button. The job status will be displayed at the top of the window. It could read “Running” and later “Completed” or “Error”. The progress messages are displayed under “Messages” heading. Don’t worry about warnings in the conversion.
      6. When the conversion is completed successfully click the “Show results folder” to view the output.
         The output will be a folder structure with MP3 audio files arranged in a format suitable for navigation in a Vine player.

      Copying book with level 3 navigation to enhanced Vine player

      1. On the computer, identify the folder that you created with DAISY Pipeline. It is likely to be in the “Documents/DAISY Pipeline results” folder and may have the name – “DAISY to navigable MP3 file-set” followed by the date and time of its creation. Open this folder.
      2. Go inside folder “MP3 files”. You can also reach this folder directly from the DAISY Pipeline app by choosing to “Go to book folder”.
      3. Here you will find a folder with the name: “001”. This folder needs to be copied in the internal memory or the SD card of the Vine player.
      4. If this is the first book being added to the Vine player, then you can leave the serial number as “001”. You can also add name of the book after the 3 digit serial number in the folder name. For example, you could rename “001” to “001 English literature for class 6”.
      5. If you already have other books on the Vine player, then rename “001” to appropriate serial number. For example, if you already have 3 books in the Vine player, the rename “001” to “004” before copying the folder on Vine player.

      Note: You will need a special cable to connect enhanced Vine Player to the computer to copy books in the internal memory of the player.

      Books with 2 level navigation

      When we choose “depth level 2” we do not get option to go to previous or next sub-sub-section. We can still navigate to previous or next chapter and sub-section. For example, we will do this if we wish to put more then one books inside subject folders. We will get following navigation options in such books:

      • Move to next or previous subject. Such as, English, History, Mathematics, Science and so on
      • Move to next or previous book inside a subject folder. Such as English Book 1, English Book 2, History Book 1, History book 2, and so on.
      • Moving to next or previous chapter within every book. Such as, Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3 and so on.
      • Moving to next or previous subsection within a chapter. Such as, Chapter 1, Subsection 1.1, Subsection 1.2, Subsection 1.3, Chapter 2, Subsection 2.1, Subsection 2.2, and so on.

      Conversion with DAISY Pipeline app

      To convert DAISY audio book for enhanced Vine Players with 2 level navigation facility, do the following:

      1. Start the DAISY Pipeline App and wait for the Pipeline engine to start
      2. In “Select a script” select “DAISY 2.02 to navigable MP3 file-set” or “DAISY 2.02 to navigable MP3 file-set”
      3. Click the browse button and select the “.opf” file in case of DAISY 3 and “ncc.html” file in case of DAISY 2.02 inside the DAISY book folder.
      4. In “Folder depth” select “2”.
      5. Run the job by clicking the “Run” button. The job status will be displayed at the top of the window. It could read “Running” and later “Completed” or “Error”. The progress messages are displayed under “Messages”.
      6. When the conversion is completed successfully click the “Show results folder” to view the output.
         The output will be a folder structure with MP3 audio files arranged in a format suitable for navigation in a Vine player.

      Copying book with 2 level navigation on enhanced Vine Player

      To copy the book in the internal memory of any model of enhanced Vine Player, connect the player to the computer using special USB cable supplied by Solar Grove Solutions company for this purpose. You could use normal cable to copy the book to the SD card of Vine player.

      In the memory of the vine player, create folders for all subjects. Name of the folder has to start with 3 digit serial number followed by the subject name. For example, 001 English, 002 History, 003 Mathematics, 004 Science, and so on.

      1. On the computer, identify the folder that you created with DAISY Pipeline. It is likely to be in the “Documents/DAISY Pipeline results” folder and may have the name – “DAISY to navigable MP3 file-set” followed by the date and time of its creation. Open this folder.
      2. Go inside folder “MP3 files”. You can also reach this folder directly from the DAISY Pipeline app by choosing to “Go to book folder”.
         Here you will find a folder with the name: “001”
      3. This folder needs to be copied inside the subject folder on the Vine player.
      4. If this is the first book being added in that subject, then you can leave the serial number as “001”. You can also add name of the book after the 3 digit serial number in the folder name. For example, you could rename “001” to “001 English literature for class 6”.
      5. If you already have other books inside that subject folder, then rename “001” to appropriate serial number. For example, if you already have 2 books in that subject folder, the rename “001” to “003” before copying the folder on Vine player.
      Tags: DAISY / Hardware reading system / Pipeline App