Recitation

From ZekrWiki

Recitation, in Quranic term is the art of singing Quran. It's known as a Quranic art. Most famous reciters used to be from Egypt.

In Zekr, there are two types of recitations: online and offline. The difference is that you should have all audio files locally on your computer in order to listen to offline recitations, while to listen to online recitations, you should be connected to the Internet.

Instruction for installing Offline recitations on Mac OS X is slightly different. Please check this section for Mac offline recitation installation.

Offline installation

In order to install an offline recitation (say ghamdi.zip):

1. download ghamdi.zip;
2. download ghamdi-offline.properties;
3. unzip ghamdi.zip to [zekr installation]/res/audio/ghamdi (for example C:\Program Files\Zekr\res\audio\ghamdi on Windows). After this step, you should have only *.mp3 files inside ghamdi folder;
4. add ghamdi-offline.properties through Tools > Add > Recitation;
5. restart Zekr and find the new recitation under Audio > Recitation menu.

Offline installation on Mac

Mac users should follow these steps, instead of the above steps:

In order to install an offline recitation (say ghamdi.zip):

1. download ghamdi.zip;
2. download ghamdi-offline.properties;
3. Assuming that you mounted Zekr .dmg image in Applications folder, unzip ghamdi.zip to Applications/Zekr.app/Contents/Resources/Java/res/audio/ghamdi. After this step, you should have only *.mp3 files inside ghamdi folder;
4. add ghamdi-offline.properties through Tools > Add > Recitation;
5. restart Zekr and find the new recitation under Audio > Recitation menu.