daisy-player - player for DAISY Digital Talking Books or Audio-CD's

       Jos Lemmens <jos@jlemmens.nl>

       Daisy-player recognizes the following keyboard-commands:

       cursordown,2
              move cursor to the next item

       cursorup,8
              move cursor to the previous item

       cursorright,6
              skip 10 seconds forwards

       cursorleft,4
              skip 10 seconds backwards

       page-down,3
              view next screen

       page-up,9
              view previous screen

       enter  Start playing

       space,0
              pause/resume playing

       home,* play on normal speed

       /      search for a label

       d      store current item to disk. (Take into account the selected level)

       D,-    decrease playing speed

       e,.    stop playing and eject

       f      find the currently playing item and place the cursor there

       g      go to time in this item or song (MM:SS)

       G(DAISY-CD)
              go to page number (if any)

       h,?    give this help

       j,5    just play current item and place a "J" at the first column.

       l      switch to next level

       L      switch to previous level

       m      mute sound on/off

       n      search forewards

       N      search backwards

       o      select next output sound device. The volume levels and the "mute" states of all cards ar shown and
              can be altered

       p      place a bookmark

       q      quit daisy-player. The playing-point will be saved as bookmark.

       s      stop playing

       T      display the time passing during playback on/off

       U,+    increase playing speed

       v,1    decrease playback volume

       V,7    increase playback volume (beware of Clipping)

       Copyright (C)2003-2021 Jos Lemmens <jos@jlemmens.nl>

       This  program  is  free  software;  you  can  redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU
       General Public License as published by the Free Software  Foundation;  either  version  2,  or  (at  your
       option)  any  later  version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
       ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A  PARTICULAR  PURPOSE.
       See  the  GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General
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       Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA

13.0                                              01 April 2024                                  daisy-player(1)

       Daisy-player  reads  a  Daisy-CD  and  plays  the  audio-files.   DAISY versions 2.02 and 3 are currently
       supported, as well as media with multiple books. (discinfo)

       Daisy-player also can play Audio-CD's and tries to get CD-information from a cddb-database.

       A list of items on the Daisy-CD or Audio-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 an attached braille-terminal will display the name of that item.

~/.daisy-player/
              This  directory  contains  the  bookmarks  in XML-format. . Each file has the name of the book and
              contains the name of the current item, the start-time of that item and the current level.

       ~/.daisy-player.xml
              This file, in XML-format, contains the current sink in the list of the  available  sound  devices,
              the desired playing speed, the current cdrom-device and wether or not to fetch cddb-information.

daisy-player - player for DAISY Digital Talking Books or Audio-CD's

       When  playing  an  Audio-CD skip-left and skip-right react a little late. The same for commands like 'U',
       'D' and HOME.

       A DAISY 2.02-medium normally contains a single book. If more than one DAISY book is provided on the  same
       medium,  each  book is stored in a separate folder (directory) of its own. In the root of the CD, DVD, or
       other media a file called discinfo.html is created that contains links to all books on the medium.   (See
       <https://daisy.org/activities/standards/daisy/daisy-2/daisy-format-2-0-specification/>)

       A  DAISY 3-book has two index-files for navigation, a NCX and an OPF file. Daisy-player tries to detemine
       which of these two files give the best result. But sometimes daisy-playr is not able  to  make  the  best
       choice. When in doubt use option "--N" to force the use of NCX or "-O" to force the OPF. This is only for
       DAISY format 3 books.

directory_with_a_Daisy-structure
              One could also give a directory with a daisy structure as argument to daisy-player.

       Daisy_book_archive
              One  could also give an archive with a daisy structure as  argument to daisy-player. Many archive-
              formats are supported like .tar.gz or .zip. The archive will be unpacked using the "unar"-utility.

       -ccdrom_device
              Use DEVICE as the CD device. DEVICE is the device special file name  of  the  CD-ROM  device.  The
              default is /dev/sr0. Be sure the user is a member of the group cdrom.

       -daudio_device:audio_type
              Daisy-player  will  play  on  this sound device of given audio_type. The value must be of the form
              "audio_device:audio_type". Example: "-d default:alsa", "hw:0:alsa" or "0:pulseaudio". This  option
              overrules  the  value  in the ~/.daisy-player.xml config file. Be sure the user is a member of the
              group "audio".

       -h     Display this help and exit.

       -i     Ignore reading of the bookmarks.

       -T     Do not display the time passing during playback.

       -n     Don't fetch cddb-information of an Audio-CD from the internet.

       -y     Fetch cddb-information of an Audio-CD from the internet.

       -v     Be more verbose, so one can se what's going on while initializing.

       The name and version of this program and the name of the author will be displayed left aligned at the top
       of the screen. The name of the current loaded book will be displayed right aligned.

       The second row of the screen will display the number of pages of the current loaded book  (if  any),  the
       current  selected  level  and  the  total number of levels, the total playing time, the current displayed
       screen and the total number of screens.

       The next rows will display the title of the item, the first page of that item within brackets  (if  there
       are pages) and the playing time. Items in higher levels will be indented. (Three spaces each level.) When
       "just playing this item" is active, a "J" will be viewed at the first column of that item.

cddbget(1), unar(1), eject(1), udisksctl(1), pulseaudio(1), pactl(1), amixer(1), alsamixer(1), usermod(8)

daisy-player [directory_with_a_Daisy-structure |
       Daisy_book_archive] [-ccdrom_device] [-daudio_device:audio_type] [-h]
       [-i] [-T] [-n | -y] [-v]

DanielVeillard<daniel@veillard.com>
              for the XML2 library.

       RobertLeslie<rob@mars.org>
              for the MPEG audio decoder (madplay).

       Chris Bagwell <cbagwell@users.sourceforge.net>

       RobSykes<aquegg@yahoo.co.uk>
              for the sox library.

       Kim Nilsson <kim.nilsson@no-substitute.com>

       LennartPoettering
              for pulseaudio.

       ColombanWendling<cwendling@hypra.fr>
              for some patches.