For kana only words, try pasting kana in both kanji and kana fields. You can always check on JDIC if they have that word recorded (I assume in your case they have since its fairly common) or if it shouldn't be spelled with kanji anyway (despite your kana version).

Look at なんだって, as kana (in both fields) it doesn't give any results but when you visit JDIC the word is recorded but with a marking 《何だって》. Now if you paste this kanji version into kanji field it will work.

This is a trivial thing, but I just noticed that by default the plugin and extension .py have different vocabularyTags? Or was I imagining things. Like vocabulary and Japanese, respectively? Or something. Anyway, if they're different, it might make it easier if they're the same.

nest0r Wrote:This is a trivial thing, but I just noticed that by default the plugin and extension .py have different vocabularyTags? Or was I imagining things. Like vocabulary and Japanese, respectively? Or something. Anyway, if they're different, it might make it easier if they're the same.

Yes, they are different. Extension author changed his to reflect a more common (?) tag but in my opinion it should stay as 'vocabulary' since it better describes the type of card this plugin works well with.

Anyway, everyone is welcome to change this setting in their .py file (CanModify section).

Yeah I should've said it was really really trivial. Also, I didn't realize you didn't write both the plugin and extension, my bad. But yeah, I think ‘vocabulary’ makes more sense as a default; or something descriptive, as I don't think ‘Japanese’ is a common tag and what's common, really. But yeah that's super trivial since it can be easily changed.

Also, is having the tag a requirement really necessary?

Just a quick question,
I have made sure that the 4 required fields are present, but the greenish-red button is still greyed out...
is there a way to fix it, could i download the extension, and if so where from?
Thanks!

PhilipOddie Wrote:Just a quick question,
I have made sure that the 4 required fields are present, but the greenish-red button is still greyed out...
is there a way to fix it, could i download the extension, and if so where from?
Thanks!

I'm having a problem, as well. Japanese Support is downloaded an enabled, the audio field is present, and the cards are tagged vocabulary, but I still can't click the download button. Using Anki version 1.2.6.

Any idea thurd?

Did you download the latest version of Audio Download? I made some fixes after Anki went 1.1. I can't reproduce your problem, my card has only "Vocabulary" tag and it seems to work.

I recently re-downloaded the plugin, yes. Within the past 3 days, I would say.

Have you told the plugin/does it know the correct ExpressionField?

I never got it to work either, but the audio extension's button works. I just add audio as I review the cards using the yellow button and ignore the gray one.

This observation won't be helpful, but..
I have been using both plugins for a while, in more than one deck. On at least half a dozen occasions, I have made some minor change, maybe to the card template (no changing of tags) and I would find one or both plugins had stopped working. Reversing my changes wouldn't help, no amount of fiddling seemed to help. The only thing that worked was going back to an older backup version of the deck. This also happened with the kanji words plugin. I wonder if it happens much to other people.

Oh, just remembered how I previously used this plugin without the kakasi stuff:

Added to the relevant section: ReadingField = u"insertfieldhere" # Your deck's reading field
Replaced original tempKana with: tempKana = currentCard.fact[ReadingField]

Of course, now I've gotten used to having readings automatically generated and don't want to ruin the way Yomichan has streamlined things.

Exactly where is the data for the files being fetched from? I have some cards that don't have exact audio matches but it would be useful to have audio for. I assumed from
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-b...dic.cgi?1C
But I don't see anyway to download the clips, they are flash.

It's happened again................ referring to my comments a couple of posts above. I made some changes to the card template and lost audio download - greyed out, non-functioning and gone, though audio download helper still worked. Through bad backup management I had to restore the deck from a copy a week old - bummer!
Later I tried to recreate my changes
- creating a new field - OK
- (The deck has one model = Japanese and the Japanese has 3 card templates Vocabulary, Kanji, NoSound and the last 2 are disabled.) I didn't enable the Kanji template, just added the new field to it and deleted a large part of the rest - then no audio download.
Undoing my most recent changes seemed to restore the plugin, but then this morning audio download was again non-functional. I wish I knew why! I think I would quite like a new card template in this deck but I use audio download a lot. Any ideas anyone?

I also wondered whether I was supposed to have the model named vocabulary rather than Vocabulary. Changing this after the fact (in the 'broken' deck) didn't help either. I'm not 100% sure I've understood where the vocabulary tag goes, at least in the recent version of anki.
Sigh! It was all working fine last week.

Have you told the plugin/does it know the correct ExpressionField, AudioField, and vocabularyTag?

Larrikin Wrote:Exactly where is the data for the files being fetched from? I have some cards that don't have exact audio matches but it would be useful to have audio for. I assumed from
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-b...dic.cgi?1C
But I don't see anyway to download the clips, they are flash.

It's in the ‘urlJDICT’ area of the AudioDownload.py.

@nestor
from the instructions - http://ankisrs.net/docs/AudioDownload.html
"It also needs your "vocabulary" tagged cards to have fields "Expression", "Reading" (default fields for Japanese card model created by Japanese Support) and "Audio".
Expression, Reading and Audio seem right and certainly haven't changed lately.
Anki 1.1 used to to have something like model tags, but now it seems more confusing to me. Where and how is the vocabulary tag inserted?

Looking in the browser, there are 3 tags corresponding to the names the card templates
Vocabulary, Kanji and NoSound
That used to be sufficient. Do you think Vocabulary should be vocabulary? But again, when I changed that (by changing the template name) it didn't seem to help.
ie. I have a second version of the deck, where the tags that appear in the browser are
vocabulary, Kanji and NoSound - this one which had edits to the kanji template won't work with audio download.

rachels, I think it's meant to be a card tag (as opposed to a model tag.) So select the cards you want to add audio for ... click add tag ... "vocabulary".

btw, model tags are now added to the model name, iirc. It's a bit confusing.

rachels Wrote:@nestor
from the instructions - http://ankisrs.net/docs/AudioDownload.html
"It also needs your "vocabulary" tagged cards to have fields "Expression", "Reading" (default fields for Japanese card model created by Japanese Support) and "Audio".
Expression, Reading and Audio seem right and certainly haven't changed lately.
Anki 1.1 used to to have something like model tags, but now it seems more confusing to me. Where and how is the vocabulary tag inserted?

Looking in the browser, there are 3 tags corresponding to the names the card templates
Vocabulary, Kanji and NoSound
That used to be sufficient. Do you think Vocabulary should be vocabulary? But again, when I changed that (by changing the template name) it didn't seem to help.
ie. I have a second version of the deck, where the tags that appear in the browser are
vocabulary, Kanji and NoSound - this one which had edits to the kanji template won't work with audio download.

Yes, I'm saying that if you changed the fields (as you suggested you had, e.g. you added a field and deleted others), you need to go into the AudioDownload.py and tell it what you changed them to. I'm not sure if the tag is case sensitive, but you can change that to whatever in the .py also. I'm using Anki 1.2.x but not the most recent, but mine still has tags under Actions in the card browser.

I added a field called Image - shouldn't that be irrelevant. There were no other field changes. In particular, I didn't touch Expression, Reading or Audio. The stuff I deleted was from the actual formatting/layout in the card template ????

Thora Wrote:rachels, I think it's meant to be a card tag (as opposed to a model tag.) So select the cards you want to add audio for ... click add tag ... "vocabulary".

btw, model tags are now added to the model name, iirc. It's a bit confusing.

Yes, cards tagged ‘vocabulary’ (or whatever you tell the .py to look for; I have multiple AudioDownload.py files w/ different tags because I have one set up to work without kakasi).

For the original, I think the default is ‘vocabulary’ and for the extension, as third pointed out made by someone else, they used a different default.

@rachels - Then hopefully it's a simple matter of confusing card tags and model tags, and you can just select them all in the browser and Actions→tag ‘vocabulary’ for third's AudioDownload plugin (and/or ‘Japanese’ for the AudioDownloadExtension plugin).

@Thora @nestor
It seems OK now. I didn't realise it was supposed to be a card tag - a bit different from 1.1, I guess. All good now, Thanks!

Cool. I didn't even know (or don't remember) Anki having model tags in addition to card tags, hehe, so I guess I won't miss those (whatever they did).

*push*
How can I mass-download audio with this one?