I guess im too late and recordingperson already edited the start silence. There is no consensus across librivox as to what "no more than 0.5 to 1 second of silence" means. I personally think it means that the silence should be short, but as dpl i let up to two seconds go. The space of a heartbeat is surely not too long. As a reader, i generally only leave only 0.2 seconds or so.Kitty wrote:Section 21:
> please leave 0.5-1 second of silence at the beginning, you jump immediately into it, and some players tend to cut off the beginning apparently
Some listeners talk of cut off beginning or end silence but im afraid that this usually has something to do with the settings of individual players (which you can usually change manually if you want). Incorrectly set up mp3 players arent a good thing to base our policies on.
Anyway, this is a thing of little importance so not to worry about it
oh this is the first I hear it's not compulsory. Well this will facilitate matters enormously. I'm sorry now for all the times I was so picky about this 