Volunteers outside the USA: Helen Wells died in 1986. The author's work is still protected by copyright in places like Europe, where copyright is author's death plus 70 years, Australia (author's death plus 70 years for authors who died after 1955) or Canada (author's death plus 50 years), UNLESS the rule of shorter term applies.
A private duty nursing case takes Cherry Ames to a remote Canadian island, where a mystery surrounds a mining operation.<br><br>
The Cherry Ames series stars a mystery-solving nurse, in the lines of Nancy Drew. The 27 books in the series (1943-1968) were written by Helen Wells and Julie Tatham. (Summary by Maria Therese)
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Set your recording software to:
Channels: 1 (Mono)
Bit Rate: 128 kbps
Sample Rate: 44.1 kHz
DURING recording: No more than 0.5 to 1 second of silence at the beginning of the recording! Make sure you add this to the beginning of your recording: START of recording (Intro)
"Chapter [number] of Cherry Ames Island Nurse. 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: "Cherry Ames Island Nurse, by Helen Wells. [Chapter]"
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 Cherry Ames Island Nurse, by Helen Wells. "
There should be ~5 seconds silence at the end of the recording.
Please remember to check this thread frequently for updates!
AFTER recording Need noise-cleaning?
Listen to your file through headphones. If you can hear some constant background noise (hiss/buzz), you may want to clean it up a bit. The latest version of Audacity is recommended for noise-cleaning. See this LibriVox wiki page for a complete guide. Save files as
128 kbps MP3
cherryamesisland_##_wells_128kb.mp3 (all lower-case) where ## is the section number (e.g. cherryamesisland_01_wells_128kb.mp3)
Please ignore tags for Genre and Track Number - these will be filled in automatically at the cataloguing stage.
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You did a really nice job!
There are a couple of issues that need to be fixed.
First, the sampling rate is incorrect - it should be 44.1 kHz (44,100 hz). If you need help fixing that, let me know.
At the end, in the outro you said "End of A Call From Dr. Fortune". It should be just "End of Chapter 1". We also need 5 seconds of silence at the end of the file.
If you could fix these issues and reupload using the same file name, that would be great!
m8b1 wrote: ↑September 28th, 2019, 3:48 pm
First, the sampling rate is incorrect - it should be 44.1 kHz (44,100 hz). If you need help fixing that, let me know.
Corrected this
m8b1 wrote: ↑September 28th, 2019, 3:48 pm
At the end, in the outro you said "End of A Call From Dr. Fortune". It should be just "End of Chapter 1". We also need 5 seconds of silence at the end of the file.
Also corrected this (got as close to 5 seconds of silence as I could)
m8b1 wrote: ↑September 28th, 2019, 3:48 pm
First, the sampling rate is incorrect - it should be 44.1 kHz (44,100 hz). If you need help fixing that, let me know.
Corrected this
m8b1 wrote: ↑September 28th, 2019, 3:48 pm
At the end, in the outro you said "End of A Call From Dr. Fortune". It should be just "End of Chapter 1". We also need 5 seconds of silence at the end of the file.
Also corrected this (got as close to 5 seconds of silence as I could)
Well, these issues are now correct, but we have a couple other technical problems now!
This file is in stereo, and we need it in mono. The bit rate is 320kbps, and we need it in 128kbps.
If you could fix the new problems and reupload, that would be great!
OMG! Sorry to be such a pain... I had recorded something else before exporting with the previous corrections. Hence the changed bitrate and stereo output. I definitely changed the bitrate back, and I believe it is now in mono again.
m8b1 wrote: ↑September 29th, 2019, 6:37 pm
You are getting there! The bit rate is correct, but it is still in stereo.
Oh wow, I found the problem: It was the new ending I recorded that was in stereo, all other tracks were in mono. I split it into two mono tracks and deleted one of them.