The program uses roughly 5 megabytes of memory to operate
Roughly 2 gigabytes of hard drive space for all the audio files. You can
manually copy the audio files from CD to your computer if you lack 2
gigs free space but this means you must do some yearly maintenance to
keep the program operating.
A personal and legal copy of Alexander Scourby's Complete King James Bible (tapes
or CD). This can be acquired for roughly $150 US. The tapes/ CDs are not
used by the program but since the program uses the audio from this
copyrighted product, ownership of the product is required to be
moral and legal. Copies of the audio may not be passed around morally or
legally so please respect the copyright holder of the audio, the Commandments of Christ, and the laws we
live under. NOTE: In actuality, any audio files of the Bible will do. I
used my Scourby CDs since they were they only full copy of Bible audio I
own.
Download the file. Execute the setup program by double-clicking
on it once downloaded.
Using the zip file
Make a directory on your hard drive where you want to store the
program.
Unzip the file you downloaded above to that directory.
Then
Run the program DailyRd.exe (Programs/Daily Readings/Daily Bible
Reading Aid)
Select the Configure, Program Setup menu item
Set the directories where your Bible MP3 files are located and a
directory where you want to export the combined daily readings files (a
single mp3 file with all 3 portions of the daily readings combined)
How to Extract Audio CD's to MP3 files
You can use a number of programs to extract the CD audio tracks to
files. I used Roxio's
Easy CD Creator Pro (version 4 and 5 work fine).
Other programs such as MusicMatch work also.
I extracted to 56K audio files. Other audio settings may or may not
work. I have not tested all the various bit rates but you are free to
try lower or higher quality settings if you want to.
Extract your audio CD's to the directory you chose in the Daily Reading
program (or create a new one and then reconfigure the program).
Warning: if you use the CDDB database (via the Internet) to
automatically name your CD tracks be aware of the fact that whoever
typed in the track names misspelled a few of the Bible's book names. You
will have to extract to audio files and then rename these files to their
correct names.
You can use the File / Check for Bible MP3 Files menu item to verify the
existence of the Bible files (and see what the correct file names look
like).