Hi, Nathaniel! Welcome to LibriVox!
This is a great addition, and you've done a marvelous job reading it. I have two separate things that need your action to get your recording "PL OK'd":
- I've entered your story in the Magic Window, but the system will not let me assign it to your name until we make a Reader Catalog Page for you. I need to know what name you want us to use on that? (This is the name that the public sees when they are looking at the audiobooks and the LibriVox Catalog. Some of us use our real name, some use our forum name that we post under, and some make up a different pseudonym.)
- And I have PL Notes about edits that are please needed on your file (but they're easy to do).
PL Notes:
LibriVox has specific technical specs that our files have to meet: your file needs to be switched from stereo to mono, only lower case in file name, and the recording needs to have 1 second of silence at the beginning and 5 seconds of silence at the end.
No worries! If you are using Audacity (the only software I'm familiar with), here is how to do these edits:
- Open the file.
- Push Control-A to highlight all of your recording.
- In the drop-down "Tracks" menu, select Mix > Mix Stereo Down to Mono.
- For the silences, I'd do the end one first. Zoom in the track until you can see the half-second marks. Now click the cursor at the very end of the recording, and push record to capture 5 seconds of ambient silence. Now you can click and drag to highlight 1 second of that silence, copy it, then go to the front end of the track and paste it in there.
- Now, In the drop-down "File" menu, select Export > Export as MP3
- At the bottom line of the pop-up window, select "Force export to mono"
- Now change your initials in the file name to lower case, and save the export.
And then you can re-upload it to LibriVox.
(For your next recording, make sure it is set to record in mono)
If you are using something other than Audacity, perhaps you can find a similar means to accomplish the necessary edit.
Please let me know if this is not clear - I remember very well how confusing everything was when I first started! I'm happy to have you with us.
