[COMPLETE] Short Poetry Collection 116 - tg

[TriciaG]

Thanks, Bill! A couple minor notes:

- Volume is fine!

0:49 - read "safe return of a marital mate" should be "martial"

1:15 - at the end, all you need to say is, "End of poem. This recording is in the public domain."

Only need 5 seconds of silence at the end. You have 10.

File name should be spc116_serviceflag_hershell_b2.mp3 (or whatever 2-3 letters you want for your initials; I grabbed the B from Bill and the 2 from 2147.)

There are no ID tags. We need them in collections like this. Yours should be:

Title: The Service Flag
Author: William Herschell (1873-1939)
Album: LibriVox Short Poetry 116

[TriciaG]

Great! Thanks, Tricia! Here is the second! Feels good to have these submitted earlier! I don't usually do poems this long, but I thought this one was interesting. I think I caught most of the errors, but there is a lot of poem here.

Old Souls by Thomas Gordon Hake (1809–94)

I liked the poem! Here's what I found:

1:05 (line 18) - read "could rise it to a sense of life" should be "rouse"

2:44 (line 49) - read "unannaled" should be "un-annealed" (a-NEELD) - your choice if you want to fix.

3:31 (line 66) - read "when in the morning hymn" should be "when it"

5:00 (line 98) - read "the downright stroke" should be "downward"

5:18 (line 103) - read "as time comes on" should be "as night"

5:25 (line 106) - read "he busies on his own affairs" should be "still busied"

6:48 (line 134) - read "he is the workhouse" should be "he is in"

8:01 (line 160) - read "smiles back on his own" should be "smiles back his own" (no "on")

9:13 (line 186) - read "while from his side fresh ichor falls" should be "flows"

10:24 (line 212) - read "set him up and pull him down" should be "put"

10:47 - a loud snap sound in this line: "No mitre on his forehead sits"

[Bill2147]

I recorded this again. Not sure about using the editor yet. I hope this is better.

Test Url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/19469/19469-h/19469-h.htm#The_Service_Flag
MP3 Url: http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/tg/spc116_serviceflag_hershell_b2.mp3
Author William Hershell (1873-1939)

Duration: 1:23

[TriciaG]

Great! PL OK. Thanks!

[CaprishaPage]

I liked the poem! Here's what I found:

1:05 (line 18) - read "could rise it to a sense of life" should be "rouse"

2:44 (line 49) - read "unannaled" should be "un-annealed" (a-NEELD) - your choice if you want to fix.

3:31 (line 66) - read "when in the morning hymn" should be "when it"

5:00 (line 98) - read "the downright stroke" should be "downward"

5:18 (line 103) - read "as time comes on" should be "as night"

5:25 (line 106) - read "he busies on his own affairs" should be "still busied"

6:48 (line 134) - read "he is the workhouse" should be "he is in"

8:01 (line 160) - read "smiles back on his own" should be "smiles back his own" (no "on")

9:13 (line 186) - read "while from his side fresh ichor falls" should be "flows"

10:24 (line 212) - read "set him up and pull him down" should be "put"

10:47 - a loud snap sound in this line: "No mitre on his forehead sits"

Thank you so much!!! I will get these changed and back to you! You know I wondered about that snap. I thought it might have just been my speakers, but I checked it on my car speakers and at school very early this morning. I think I will just re-record it - I am not sure what caused it, so I don't know how to remedy it. Thank you again for sifting through so long a poem. :o) I really do appreciate it!

[ChristopherMWallace]

Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
Text URL: http://www.bartleby.com/42/761.html
MP3 URL: http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/tg/spc116_annabellee_poe_cmw.mp3
Duration: 3:44
Reader name as I would like it to appear in the catalog: Christopher M. Wallace

[TriciaG]

Welcome!

PL OK. Congratulations on your first recording!

[ChristopherMWallace]

Thank you

[ChristopherMWallace]

Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
Text URL: http://www.bartleby.com/41/416.html
MP3 URL: http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/tg/spc116_kublakhan_coleridge_cmw.mp3
Duration: 5:20

[TriciaG]

Thanks! I'll PL it later.

[TriciaG]

Kubla Khan - PL OK!

[ChristopherMWallace]

Thanks, Tricia

[Bill2147]

I uploaded this twice. Same file name. Needed to edit silence at the end.

Title :Warren's Address to the American Soldiers
Author: John Pierpont (1785-)1866)
Text URL: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/19469/19469-h/19469-h.htm#Warrens_Address_to_the_American_Soldiers
mp3 URL: URL: http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/tg/spc116_warrensaddresstotheamericansoldiers_pierpont_b2147.mp3
Duration: 1:059

[Bill2147]

I was going to read this. I believe it was meant to be read in a female voice if someone wants to read it.

Somebody's Darling
Marie Ravenal de la Coste (1845-1936) Maria La Coste

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/19469/19469-h/19469-h.htm#Somebodys_Darling

[TriciaG]

Good, but the volume is too low. It needs to come up about 6.5 dB.

First, compress the file using these settings. The ones in red are most important:
Threshold: -20 dB
Noise Floor: -40 dB (or whatever the default is)
Ratio: 3:1
Attack time: 0.2 secs (or whatever the default is)
Decay time: 1.0 secs (or whatever the default is)
NO checks in the check boxes

This will squish your peaks, so you can then amplify the file by... make it 8 dB on this one, because compressing does lower the volume at first, so it needs to come up a little higher than the original.

Here's one of Phil's videos on compression: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ3lOTDsN6c