LibriVox Forum

Sorry kri - confusion on my part. I saw some PHP and database code at some URL and another and jumped to conclusions. I'll try some things on my own and take a look at the stuff you mentioned when it's available.

Let me clarify things a little. Hopefully you won't have to do any designing. Oh for that to be true. The database is actually the easy part. The design is getting all the functionality that our manual procedures have now in front of that database. Especially critical is making it welcoming, rather...

I've captured some more requirements and thoughts into the wiki - I'll continue capture for a while until I'm sure I've got a basic handle on everything. That includes stuff like considering backup strategies for the database, security models, and all that other stuff that keeps the data in the cata...

Exactly - now if I get hit by a truck, everything's in the wiki.

UPDATE: sorry this should have been stated a bit earlier, but this catalog project has been started and stopped by at least 5 people, 6 now, so ... we currently have a prototype catalog database that is: a) getting tested b) getting prettied up we will very likely want some help tweaking/adding som...

See http://librivox.org/wiki/moin.cgi/CatalogProject - my (incomplete) understanding of the Librivox process no doubt shows here, but it's a place to get started from. Once the requirements become more extensive, we'll probably want to move them off to subpages. I have not yet tried to integrate the...

kri wrote: If you are a programmer and will have time to help us on this, perhaps you can help with feature requests, tweaking, and general sprucing up the simple front-end that we have set up?

Sure. I'm not so much a PHP guy, but I have access to PHP guys.

Barry Hughart's Master Li and Number Ten Ox Novels. though I'd be laughing so hard I would screw up the recording.

For those who don't know him: Bridge of Birds, The Story of the Stone, Nine Skilled Gentlemen.

"Stories of an Ancient China that never was".

Hi, new arrival; I do intend to do some reading, but programming's really much more my strong suit. I've skimmed the thread so far, and have a few observations and ideas. First, thank heavens we have real librarians on board, because I'd have no idea where to start. Second, it looks like we've got a...

That'd be the ideal; the trick is of course getting everybody to speak at (about) the same tempo. :) Maybe we could Telephone Game it over half a dozen people or so: reader 1 sends his/her version to reader2, 2 to 3, ... and then we edit them all together for a "single" reading; this keeps...

I'd been thinking about this for "Many Soldiers" in _Spoon River_: the idea is of course to get the effect of several simultaneous speakers. Should be possible in even Garageband: read and record once, then read along with it and record it again, pitching one's voice slightly higher or low...

Just finished listening to "The Importance of Being Earnest". What a wonderful project! I hope to do some reading soon - maybe on the Spoon River Anthology.