DESCRIPTION
Olearia is a project to bring the versatility of talking books (Both Daisy and others) to Mac OS X.
Currently Olearia will open and play Daisy V3 (ANSI/NISO Z39.86-2005) books and DAISY version 2.02 books with audio content.
Text only books will be supported in the next release.
Features
- Easy to use intuitive interface
- Full navigation of the book structure
- Preference management on a per book basis.
- Playback speed and volume adjustment on a per book basis.
- Fast forward and rewind of audio content.
- Choice of normal or high contrast icons for low vision users.
- Full VoiceOver Compatibility.
- Information window showing all available metadata.
- Auto Loading of books from removable media.
Comments and reviews are appreciated.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 0.9.5.1 - Maintenance Release
- Fixed a problem with the info window displaying garbage due to incorrect parsing of some metadata.
- Made the Columns adjust properly in the info window
- Fixed a problem when a book was opened and it was playing that the play/pause button would not be set correctly.
Version 0.9.5
- Added High Contrast gray scale images for Low Vision Users.
- Added an Auto Relaunch alert for changing between Normal and High Contrast icons.
- Added an Info Window which displays all available metadata that is available in the control file.
- Added a menu item and a toolbar item to access the new Info Window.
- Added French localization.
- Added Norwegian localization.
- Fixeed disabling of Minimize menu item when minimized.
- Fixed a problem where audio files smaller than ~ 10Mb would not have chapters added to them.
- Added the ability to load from mounted removable media. Olearia will search for a control file in the root folder of the media it is mounted and load it. The user will be prompted if there is already a book loaded.
- Added an option in the General prefs to ignore removable media notifications.
- Fixed an issue where the localized menu items would sometimes get truncated.
- Added traversal of the entire book by using the fast forward and fast back buttons.
- Fixed a problem where starting with no recent files list and having "load last book book read at startup" would cause a crash.
- Changed the layout of the About window
- Added a goto homepage button to the about window
- Added a donate to CUCAT button to the about window
- Added a panel showing the GPL license text to the about winow
- Lots of minor fixes
Version 0.9.3
- Added an option to open the most recently read book on startup.
- Added a new General preferences view
- Fixed an issue where long audio segments would have their duration
incorrectly set causing long silent sections at the end of the segment.
- Fixed a problem where a new book that was not in the
recent books list would load but would not display initial information.
- Fixed links in the help documentation and lots of grammatical and spelling
mistakes.
- Updated the Version to 0.9.3 and removed the release candidate status
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
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