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Originally Posted by PeterT
@Psymon: What version of ADE on your PC? It's not until ADE 4 that Adobe added ePub 3 support, and there are a s... load of issues right now with ADE 4 and privacy.
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Oh, I have 3 (and 2 and 1) -- I didn't know there was a 4 out!
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Originally Posted by odedta
Psy, like I said, it's a work in progress, some work on iPad, some in Readium, some in ADE... In any case, the Audio tags works on iPad, Readium and Calibre and the ePub validates. Isn't that what you were looking for?
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Oh, for sure, the audio worked just fine -- although if I was you I would turn off the autoplay, and let people start it on their own (workplace issues or whatever). I guess my problem wasn't getting the audio to work -- indeed, I got that to work just fine in my epub2 book, and it played in iBooks no problems (although my epub didn't validate, of course) -- but that's not my problem, I just couldn't seem to get the whole, entire book to get converted from epub2 to epub3, the whole process of editing the content.opf file was utterly exasperating, never mind I get frustrated with using epubcheck in a command line (I can't understand why there's not a nice GUI version of it) and each time it would take me several tries before I'd get it right (bad memory!)... only to get a pile of errors that didn't make sense half the time.
Trying to do my book as epub3 -- all just for one little audio file -- just seems like such an ordeal. Even if I did manage to get it to validate, then if/when I want to make any future changes or additions, I'd be stuck having to do them in Calibre, and I soooooooo like Sigil soooooooo much more as an editor. And then there's the whole compatibility issue, of course -- I think it came up in this thread here earlier, but some devices (esp. older ones) can't view epub3 format, never mind that even if they can, some won't be able to listen to the audio file anyway (which, in my case, was the whole point of doing it as epub3).
So it's a LOT of exasperation and frustration, for something that only works some of the time, not all the time -- I'm even possibly limiting my audience for the whole, entire book (re those devices that can't handle epub3 at all), just for one audio file (which I can instead simply provide a web link to).