COMPLETE [poetry] Bib Ballads by Ring Lardner -lz

[Jack Thro]

Bib Ballads by Ring Lardner.

All audio files can be found on our catalog page: http://librivox.org/bib-ballads-by-ring-lardner/

Summary text: Ring Lardner is a typical parent when his first child is born, full of wonder and the rest of the usual emotions as he watches his little son grow. He wrote a series of 29 short poems on various facets of parenthood. (Summary by Jack Thro)

• Target completion date: 08 Oct 08
• Text source (only read from this text!): http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/25961
• Type of proof-listening required:: Standard Proof-listening
  
  
  (BC admin)
• The reader will record the following at the beginning of the first file:
  Start of recording (Intro)
  • "Foreword of Bib Ballads - This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information, or to volunteer, please visit: librivox DOT org"
  • If you wish, say:
    "Recording by [your name]"
  • Say:
    "Bib Ballads by Ring Lardner. Foreword"
• The reader will record the following at the beginning of all the other files (except the first):
  Start of recording (Intro)
  • "[Section title or number] of Bib Ballads - This LibriVox recording is in the Public Domain."
  • If you wish, say:
    "Recording by [your name]"
  • Say:
    "Bib Ballads by Ring Lardner. [Section title or number]"
• The reader will record the following at the end of each file:
  “End of [Section name]"
  • If you wish, say:
    "Recording by [your name], [city, your blog, podcast, web address]"
  • At the end of the book, say (in addition):
    "End of Bib Ballads by Ring Lardner."

There should be 5 seconds silence at the end of the recording, or 10 seconds for files longer than 30 minutes.

[*]Example filename
bibballads_##_lardner.mp3

[*]Example ID3 V2 tags
Title: ## - [Section title]
Artist: Ring Lardner
Album: Bib Ballads

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SOLO Bib Ballads by Ring Lardner

Hi, I would like to submit a voice recording of the above short book, found at
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/25961.

I have recorded the poem "Inversnaid" by Gerard Manley Hopkins in the Collection of Short Poems 69 and the book "A Plea for Old Cap Collier" by Irvin S. Cobb in the Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 010 already.

I'll be ready to start this solo project in a couple more days.

Best regards,

Jack Thro
Tokyo, Japan
jackthro@aa.bb-east.ne.jp

[PaulW]

Hi, Jack! I've split your post off into its own thread, so that you can work on the project without affecting the "how to start a solo" thread.

First, you'll need to to to this wiki page and copy all of the bbcode between the lines "Copy below this line" and "Copy above this line", and paste it into your first post. Then you'll need to edit all of the items that are in bold on the wiki page, as well as the items asked for in the temporary paragraph between the lines of equal signs.

Once you've gotten that done, an MC will come along and claim the projects, and set you up with a Magic Window database entry, and get the project moved over into the Going Solo forum.

Happy recording!

[PaulW]

Hey, Jack, I got your emial, I just haven't had a chance to reply. Until an MC comes along and claims your project, you can upload your files to my directory...that's the pw - PaulW directory...on the uploader. We can move it to the proper directory later. If no one else comes along by the time I get one of my current projects in the catalog, I'll take it on, but I'm currently over my comfort level on projects at the moment.

[lezer]

Hi Jack,
I'd be happy to MC this for you. I'll go and set it up for you. Will be right back.
Anna

[lezer]

Hi Jack,

As you can see, I shuffled the thread about a bit, to get you a nice clean first post

You now have your very own magic window (MW) - I'll PM you with some details on how you can access the MW and edit it yourself.

Some questions / suggestions:
- I saw you didn't suggest any file names or ID3 tags - so I was so bold as to suggest some in your first post. Let me know if you'd like to do it differently.
- You ask for 10 sections, but I see the book actually contains 29 poems. Let me know if you'd like more sections, that's an easy thing to do. Or were you planning on combining some poems?
- As the poems are so short, and as it is a solo - I have made a suggestion for a little change in the introduction (see first post for details): that is, the long disclaimer for the first recording of the book, and then for the rest of the sections using a shorter intro, a bit like the one that is used in the poetry collections. OK?
- As for a summary text: you can make up something yourself, we'll only need it by the time we get to the cataloging stage.

Have fun with the recording, and let me know if you have any questions!


PS I'll be away on a conference from Wednesday afternoon (European time, that is) Sept 3 till Sunday evening Sept 8 - and don't know how much I'll be on Librivox in that time (probably not that much, unless the evenings turn out to be boring and there's internet access in my hotel) - but you know that there's always someone around Librivox who can help you out with any urgent problems - whatever your timezone .

PPS I'll leave the project in the New Projects Launch Pad for a day or two more - it would be great if we can find you a Dedicated Proof-Listener (DPL), and they are more likely to spot the project here

[Jack Thro]

Hi, Anna,

Thanks for volunteering to be my MC for Bib Ballads, and for putting in sample file names and ID tags. I didn't know what to do with those, and I feel I can work with them now.

Maybe it would be better to have 30 files (sections) instead of 10? File #0 would be the Foreword, and each of the following 29 poems would have a file to itself. Could you please make that change for me?

I was able to open the Magic Window, and I'll try to do some editing in it once I have a file or two uploaded. Since each file will be small enough, it won't be any trouble to start over on a file if there is any problem.

I'm glad that I decided to do a small work for my first Solo project, rather than beginning with something like War and Peace.

Thanks again,
Jack

[lezer]

Hi Jack,
Now from a hotel room in Sweden (with free, fast, wireless internet access - perfect!): 30 sections are put in - feel free to try out the editing of the MW.
And yes, this is a great first solo project. As you have noticed, there's all these small but important details, which become very easy once you've done it once or twice, but can seem very overwhelming at first...
Have fun recording.
Anna

[Jack Thro]

Hi, Anna,

Greetings from Japan to Sweden! I am actually not at home in Tokyo now, but at a hotel room in Sendai, about 1 hour 40 minutes north along the coast from Tokyo by express train.

I have recorded and uploaded the Foreword of Bib Ballads. The timing is 1 minute, 40 seconds. The URL for the upload is:
http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/lz/bibballads_00_lardner.mp3

Hopefully I will have a few more files following very soon, now that I have finally gotten started with the first.

Jack

[Jack Thro]

Hi, Anna,

Well, I have recorded Poem 01 - Good-by Bill of Bib Ballads by Ring Lardner and uploaded it. The timing is 2 minutes, 19 seconds, and the URL is
http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/lz/bibballads_01_lardner.mp3

I'll try to keep going with a couple more today.

Jack

[lezer]

Hi Jack,
You made a good start, I see! I took a listen to the first file, and it sounds all good. So that one is ready for the catalog.
I've put in the listen link - you can see in the MW where I copied the link to make it appear like that - once you know, it's easy.
I'll move the thread over to "going solo" and I will post in the "Listeners wanted" thread, to see whether we can find a (dedicated) prooflistener.

Have fun with the rest!
Anna

[Jack Thro]

Hi, Anna,

I just now uploaded File 05 - Inexpensive Guests - of Bib Ballads.
More to come!
Timing is 1:17. URL is
http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/lz/bibballads_05_lardner.mp3


Jack

[anna]

I'll do the proof listening

[Jack Thro]

Hi, Anna,

I uploaded Section 06 - His Sense of Humor
of Bib Ballads by Ring Lardner.

Timing is 1:52.

URL is at
http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/lz/bibballads_06_lardner.mp3

More to come!

Jack

[anna]

Section 1 -OK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Section 2 -OK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Section 3 -OK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[anna]

Section 4 -OK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Section 5 -OK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Section 6 -OK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've up dated the MW

Ans