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Genres for the project: *Non-fiction; *Non-fiction/Science/Chemistry; *Non-fiction/Science/Earth Sciences
Keywords that describe the book: analysis, precious stones, gemology
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The reader will record the following at the beginning and end of each file:
No more than 0.5 to 1 second of silence at the beginning of the recording! START of recording (Intro):
"Chapter [number] of The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones. 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], [city, your blog, podcast, web address]"
Say: "The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones, by John Mastin. [Chapter]"
For the second and all subsequent sections, you may optionally use the shortened form of this intro disclaimer:
"Chapter [number] of The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones by John Mastin. This LibriVox recording is in the Public Domain."
If you wish, say:
"Recording by [your name], [city, your blog, podcast, web address]"
Only if applicable, say: "[Chapter title]"
END of recording:
At the end of the section, say: "End of [Chapter]"
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 The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones, by John Mastin. "
There should be 5 seconds silence at the end of the recording, or 10 seconds for files longer than 30 minutes.
Example filename chemistryofpreciousstones_##_mastin.mp3 (all lower-case) where ## is the section number (e.g. chemistryofpreciousstones_01_mastin.mp3)
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Definitely, I already reduced it to chemistryofpreciousstones_01_mastin.mp3 but you and slice it further as you know the subject better, maybe just preciousstones_01_mastin.mp3 instead.
boojumuk wrote:PS, I take it you do still want ID tags?
Kevin
Kevin,
You can if you want to, but they are not required with our current software. The system will pull the title for each file from the Title column in the section compiler, the album and author information are pulled from the database values I just entered based on the information provided in you project launch template.
If you use the checker program to test your files you tell it not to check for ID tags by clicking on Validation in the top bar then clicking Choose Validation Methods and unchecking the box in front of ID3 Metadata.
Thanks both. Should be quite an interesting read if you like precious stones.
I've just got a new audio set-up, so I'll be using this recording as a test for it. I'd be grateful if you could comment on sound quality, background noise etc, as I'm still tweaking the various knobs to get a good recording.
thanks
Kevin
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