We selected some of our favourite poets for this collection, including Dante, Fitzgerald, Keats, Barrett Browning, Lear, Carroll, Milton, Morris, Swinburne and Rossetti. We hope you enjoy listening to them. ( )
How to claim a part, and "how it all works" here To find a section to record, simply look at point 5. below at the sections. All the ones without names beside them are "up for grabs." Click "Post reply" at the top left of the screen and tell us which section you would like to read (include the section number from the left-most column in the reader list, please). Read points 6. to 8. below for what to do before, during and after your recording.
Is there a deadline? We ask that you submit your recorded sections within 1-2 months of placing your claim. Please note that to be fair to the readers who have completed their sections in a timely way, if you haven't submitted your recording(s) after two months, your sections will automatically be re-opened for other readers to claim, unless you post in this thread to request an extension. Extensions will be granted at the discretion of the Book Coordinator. If you cannot do your section, for whatever reason, just let me know and it'll go back to the pool. There's no shame in this; we're all volunteers and things happen.Please do not sign up for more sections than you can complete within the two month deadline.
Please claim sections (the numbers in the first column below)! If this is your first recording, please let me know under which name or pseudonym you'd like to appear in the LibriVox catalogue. We can also link to a personal website/blog.
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Magic Window:
BC Admin ===========================================
This paragraph is temporary and will be replaced by the MC with the list of sections and reader (Magic Window) once this project is in the admin system.
Project Code: 4ajrKAIR
Link to author on Wikipedia (if available):
Link to title on Wikipedia (if available):
Number of sections (files) this project will have: 80
Does the project have an introduction or preface [y/n]: No
Original publication date (if known):
If you are a new volunteer, how would you like your name (or pseudonym) credited in the catalog? Do you have a URL you would like associated with your name?:
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)
•"Section [number] of Poetic Trios. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information, or to volunteer, please visit: librivox DOT org"
•"Recording by [your names ]. "
•Say: "[ Section name ]"
Subsequent Sections (Intro)
•"Section [number] of Poetic Trios. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain."
•"[Section name]"
END of recording
•At the end of the section, say:
"End of section"
•At the end of the book, say (in addition):
•"End of Poetic Trios. "
• "Recording by [your names].
There should be 5 seconds silence at the end of the recording, or 10 seconds for files longer than 30 minutes.
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 new (free) version 1.3.3. of Audacity has much improved noise-cleaning. See this LibriVox wiki page for a complete guide. Save files as
128 kbps MP3
poetictrios_##_various_128kb.mp3 (all lower-case) where ## is the section number (e.g. poetictrios_01_various_128kb.mp3)
Transfer of files (completed recordings) Please always post in this forum thread when you've sent a file. Also, post the length of the recording (file duration: mm:ss) together with the link.
Upload your file with the LibriVox Uploader: https://librivox.org/login/uploader
(If you have trouble reading the image above, please message an admin)
You'll need to select the MC, which for this project is: kathrinee
When your upload is complete, you will receive a link - please post it in this thread.
There will be twenty finished sections for this project. I'd like to set the magic window up as if for a dramatic reading, with 20 final sections and three reader sections per completed poem.
My co-readers will be Algy Pug and John Burlinson. Linny will be DPLing.
Hi Erin,
Thank you for the PM and link. Glad to be on board.
Algy did not tell me this would be a DR type production. Seems this is his way to get me back to DRs. I wonder what he has planned for my future. ? [teasing]
Let me know if you need any help with the editing!
I'm curious about this project (I take that to mean I should go ahead and set it up...) Will be back in a bit with a MW
ETA:
OK, here is a MW. Is the Robert Browning text the only you are going to read? Or will there be more (confer: "various" in the title).
This is my first MC-thing for a DR, but I learn pretty quickly (just fair warning it might take me a day to figure things out here and there if I need help ). Let me know if there is anything I can do to help!
Two of the poems are by Browning. I used his name and the link to one of the texts as I couldn't get round the template generator otherwise (if there's a way to bypass giving any name or text link for a multi-authored project, please let me know). I'll be entering the metadata for each section.
Most of the MW should now be filled. If anything isn't clear, please do ask.
Something I forgot to mention earlier - whoever reads the first lines of the poem will also read the intro for that particular section, and whoever has the last lines of any given section will also record the outro.
Yes, the source texts do need to be listed. At the moment, some of that information is buried in the metadata and not visible in the MW. It's there, just not evident. Does that make sense?
We'll be reading from the scripts rather than scans/PG texts directly. With any luck, that will make it easier to read the right lines, PL the right parts and edit everything together. Hopefully.
Last edited by Newgatenovelist on June 2nd, 2016, 7:03 am, edited 1 time in total.
My understanding is that the source text info, and individual author links, is entered in the metadata, a bit like it is with monthly short poetry collections or short science fiction/ghost and horror collections - that way each finished section is individually searchable within the catalogue and still has a link to its source text. The link to the source text will be there next to each section, rather than in the summary or first post - at least, that's my understanding.
(I take that to mean I should go ahead and set it up...) Will be back in a bit with a MW