[bt-devel] Ubuntu Touch App

[John B. Turpish]

LibreVox <http://librivox.org/> has some good content, including audio 
Bibles (under the Non-fiction > Bibles category). They don't have an API 
that I am aware of (you could contact them about it), but since they 
explicitly place their content in the public domain I'd bet they'd be 
fine with you hosting whichever recordings are appropriate in a form 
that is conducive to your application.

On 10/14/2013 12:33 PM, Gary Holmlund wrote:
> On 10/14/2013 5:03 PM, israel dahl wrote:
>> Hi everyone, we are still working on the Ubuntu Touch app, and have 
>> made some progress, but the development has been delayed a bit (as 
>> can happen in small open source projects).  I had a few questions, so 
>> I thought I'd ask here.
>> Is there a central repository for Audio Bibles?  If not (I should 
>> probably ask this on the SWORD list) is there any plans to do so?  
>> Also is there any backend for using Audio Bibles. I haven't made it 
>> through all the code from Gary's branch yet, so I figured I should 
>> just ask, and maybe you could point me to the header(s)/cpp files to 
>> look at.  You have a lot of really good code, and a majority of it is 
>> very useful for us, however I don't think it will work to simply add 
>> another frontend.  At this point I think we are going to cherry pick 
>> some things from your code (giving credit to the wonderful BT 
>> development team), and leave out large amounts of what is available 
>> in the source. I hope this decision is ok with all of you (since it 
>> is open GPL'd software I'd assume that was your intent), but we 
>> really want to tailor the program to that specific platform, and 
>> integrate it heavily to Ubuntu (Touch and desktop OS).  If we come up 
>> with any really ingenious ways of doing some of the things we need we 
>> will hopefully be able to commit back to your project as well, 
>> especially with the audio portions and some other mobile related 
>> things... though a lot of this will be Ubuntu API specific.  We are 
>> working towards including a 'sharing' feature to integrate with text 
>> messaging as well as social media API's  since Ubuntu SDK is still in 
>> development, it is still unclear whether this will be included in a 
>> central messaging API, or if each social media outlet will need to be 
>> coded in.
>> In any case thank you all for your incredible efforts and may the 
>> Lord Jesus Christ continue blessing you all!!
>>
> Israel,
>
> BibleTime does not have any audio features. The audio repository 
> question should be asked on the sword list. I am not aware that they 
> have any audio content.
>
> Blessings to you.
>
> Gary
>
>
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