Zekr offline recitation on Mac

[Neng Risma Liasari]

Assalamu'alaikum wr wb.

I would like to thank first to all the person that have built and developed Zekr, one of the most useful software I've ever had.
May Allah reward you all...amin!

Then, unfortunatelly, I have a problem in installing offline recitation to my Zekr-Mac OS based (the instruction at Zekr-wiki is only for Windows). Maybe it could be resolved by entering the Console...but, I don't know about "programming" yet...so that, is there anyone who know the answer?

Btw, my fav reciter is Alafasy...is there any attempt yet to make his recitations becoming offline? Moreover, is there anyone who has zipped his recitations? If any, please be kind by giving/posting the file :)

Thanks a lot before,

Wassalam,

-risma-

[Ali Rastegar]

Hi,
I have not personally tested recitations, but the path in the mac is:
1- Right Click/Control-Click on Zekr.app
2- Go to /Contents/MacOS/res/audio/
3- extract minshavi.zip there
4- add minshawi.properties through Tools > Add > Recitation
5- restart Zekr and find the new recitation under Audio > Recitation menu.
I hope it works.
Good Luck

[Mohsen Saboorian]

On 9/25/07, Neng Risma Liasari <rlia...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Assalamu'alaikum wr wb.
>
> I would like to thank first to all the person that have built and developed
> Zekr, one of the most useful software I've ever had.
> May Allah reward you all...amin!
>
> Then, unfortunatelly, I have a problem in installing offline recitation to
> my Zekr-Mac OS based (the instruction at Zekr-wiki is only for Windows).
> Maybe it could be resolved by entering the Console...but, I don't know about
> "programming" yet...so that, is there anyone who know the answer?

See if this works:
1. Unzip zekr-0.6.5-mac.tgz somewhere on your system, say /Home/Neng/Zekr.app).
2. Unzipp minshawi.zip to /Home/Neng/Zekr.app/Contents/MacOS/res/audio/minshawi.
3. Copy minshawi-offline.properties to /Home/Neng/.zekr/audio
4. Run Zekr.

Note that I had no feedback yet whether recitation (offline or online)
works with Zekr on Mac OS or not.

If still it doesn't work, tell me if you can see MP3 player at the
bottom of the Quran screen, something line this:
http://zekr.googlegroups.com/web/zekr-ramadan-edition-mixed.png

> Btw, my fav reciter is Alafasy...is there any attempt yet to make his
> recitations becoming offline? Moreover, is there anyone who has zipped his
> recitations? If any, please be kind by giving/posting the file :)

I'm really not sure about the permission to do so. Anyway, you can
download them all from versebyversequran.com (using a batch download
manager like FDM), and change alafasi-online.properties a bit to have
it work offline. Just look at minshawi-offline.properties to
understand how it works.

Best,
Mohsen.

[Neng Risma Liasari]

Assalamu'alaikum wr wb

Thank you for your suggestion...I have tried it several times...but with unsuccessful result.
Moreover, I've found that the "speed" of ayat-translation mark on Mac OS version was slower than its recitation.
Even if I clicked to the right ayat...the mark was then back to its origin position.

Wassalam,

-risma-

2007/9/26, Ali Rastegar < rast...@gmail.com>:

[Ali Rastegar]

Hi,

I forgot to say after you right click on Zekr.app you should select "Show Package Contents".

Good Luck

[Mohsen Saboorian]

Salaam,

Thank you Ali. Do you have enough time to test if recitation works on Mac?

>> Moreover, I've found that the "speed" of ayat-translation mark on Mac OS
>> version was slower than its recitation.
>> Even if I clicked to the right ayat...the mark was then back to its origin
>> position.

I'm afraid, I couldn't understand. Can you explain it more, or provide
some screenshot of the problem?

Do you mean that book icon at the end of each aya (on search results),
when clicked shows up aya translation? Then what doest speen mean
here?

Mohsen.