DAISY to MP3 Conversion Guide

Vine Player also known as MegaVoice is a popular low-cost audio book player. It does not directly support the DAISY audio book format but with some changes DAISY books can be read on these Vine players or generic MP3 players.

The DAISY Pipeline App is a multi-format converter, and it includes a script to convert DAISY audio books to Vine Player format. Follow the steps listed below to transform a DAISY book to a format which will work on Vine Player and MP3 playback devices.

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 the option which matches the requirement of the target reading device. Below each option, there is a brief description with the name of the supported device.
5. Run the job by clicking the “Run” button
6. 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.
7. Don’t worry about warnings in the conversion, only errors (hopefully there will be none!).
8. 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. Now you will need to copy the newly created folder to the chosen device for reading.