[sword-devel] Audio Bibles

Thu Oct 17 03:53:10 MST 2013

One difficult issue is the large size of audio files. This makes it
impractical for most people to download all available audio for a module at
one time. It seems there needs to be some way that users can be notified
when audio is available for a module, but also be able to choose the
chapter(s) they want to download, and get them only when they want them.
Maybe the SWORD module manager allows this already I don't know.

I should mention that xulsword did not use the SWORD API for its module
manager because it would have been difficult to wrap the C++ functionality
into Javascript, and doing so would not have made XUL's RDF database coding
any easier, plus using Firefox's build-in parallel download capabilities
makes it possible to work with xulsword (including most of the module
manager itself) and download various modules all at the same time.
-John

On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 2:48 PM, refdoc at gmx.net <refdoc at gmx.net> wrote:

> As such any file contained in the data section of a module will be pulled
> along by the existing module manager. It is therefore duplication of effort
> to have a second manager just for audio material.
>
> Sent from my HTC
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> ----- Reply message -----
> From: "John Austin" <gpl.programs.info at gmail.com>
> To: "SWORD Developers' Collaboration Forum" <sword-devel at crosswire.org>
> Subject: [sword-devel] Audio Bibles
> Date: Thu, Oct 17, 2013 07:02
>
>
> The new xulsword (3.6+) which hasn't officially been announced yet, but
> which is available now as a google code download, has a module manager
> which handles audio. As of today, audio for WEB is available from IBT's
> audio "repository" where it can be downloaded in zip module format. However
> currently xulsword for Linux cannot play the audio (only the Windows
> version can, but this should be remedied in the future). This demonstrates
> one possible module manager implementation for audio. But xulsword expects
> no other special markup to handle the audio. It simply looks for an audio
> file for any chapter it's displaying, and if it finds one, it shows a
> clickable audio icon above the chapter.
>
> John
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 7:15 PM, Israel <israeldahl at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>  Ok, this might be really nice for the 'protected' versions that a lot
>> of people use (NIV, NLT, etc....)  I will forward this on to the rest of
>> the developers as well.
>>
>> Thanks very much!!
>>
>>
>> On 10/15/2013 08:11 AM, Greg Hellings wrote:
>>
>> There is an online API, available from Every Tribe, Every Nation/Faith
>> Comes By Hearing, that allows a programmer to create an application that
>> will display either the text and/or audio for a vast number of scripture
>> translations. I had hoped to gain access to this for the SWORD project, but
>> it turns out that every application developer would need to gain their own
>> API key and that this key is supposed to be kept rather secretive so that
>> someone else doesn't abuse the Terms of Service with someone else's key.
>> Thus, it doesn't seem too amenable to use in open source projects.
>>
>>  Alternatively you could use the OSIS methods specified or use HTML
>> elements. Most Sword applications render out HTML into a reasonably modern
>> display engine. You could cover a great many Sword users by embedding audio
>> elements into your module for play. Controlling multiple such files on a
>> single rendering might be difficult and might require some additional
>> tweaking to applications.
>>
>>  --Greg
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 11:51 PM, Israel <israeldahl at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>  Can you provide a link to any sort of API, or way to include this
>>> existing content through OSIS (or just point me to the correct header files
>>> so I can look for myself).
>>> Thanks so much for the quick response!!
>>>
>>>
>>> On 10/14/2013 11:22 PM, refdoc at gmx.net wrote:
>>>
>>> There is a lot of linked audiocontent available for Xulsword/mkbible.
>>> There has also been extensive discussion on this.list on the best way for
>>> integrating audio content. Osis allows for that, as do our modules, but so
>>> far few have used this.
>>>
>>> Sent from my HTC
>>>
>>> ----- Reply message -----
>>> From: "Israel" <israeldahl at gmail.com> <israeldahl at gmail.com>
>>> To: <sword-devel at crosswire.org> <sword-devel at crosswire.org>
>>> Subject: [sword-devel]  Audio Bibles
>>> Date: Tue, Oct 15, 2013 01:23
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi, I e-mailed the Bible Time list about this, but I thought I would
>>> e-mail this list as well.
>>> Is there support for Audio Bibles built into SWORD?  Are there any audio
>>> Bibles hosted already?  If there aren't any would it be ok to package some
>>> to include in the repos, assuming Audio integration could be included in
>>> most SWORD programs.
>>> I am specifically working on an Ubuntu Touch Bible app, and would like
>>> to have an offline Audio Bible, as "Faith comes by hearing". It would be
>>> great to include this functionality.  Of course if crosswire wont host
>>> this, I suppose I might get a repo going somewhere.
>>>
>>> The audio Bibles I have in mind are of course public domain, namely
>>> librivox.org.  Of course they contain an intro about librivox and are
>>> not in verse by verse sections.  There is also a public domain KJV bible
>>> read by firemen (though I can't remember where I found that one...
>>> something like firefighters.org... not sure though)
>>>
>>> Anyhow thanks for any pointers you can give (especially specific header
>>> files if they exist)
>>>
>>> May the LORD Jesus Christ continue to bless all of you for your precious
>>> work!
>>>
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