getting started

seyfried · Post by **seyfried** » July 26th, 2017, 4:27 am

Hi, I am new at this. I am not computer literate or even computer friendly(but I try). I wish to volunteer to read,but don't know how to get started. Can anyone tell me the next step(after logging in)?I asked this question yesterday,but do not see it posted,nor did I get a response. I must be doing something wrong. I need to know which buttons to push...

Post by **philchenevert** » July 27th, 2017, 8:28 pm

Hi Seyfried and welcome to LibriVox. I just saw your post and would like to help. First of all, just ask if anything stumps you, we are a friendly bunch here and don't mind questions. Secondly, we are volunteers and, like me, may be out of town sometimes so our answers won't come imeediately, but be patient.
If you really are wondering what is going on here, try this video called Getting To Know Our Forums http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnxpcbnEjoQ&feature=youtu.be. I have lots of other videos about LibriVox stuff linked in my signature, feel free to browse.

Again, we all learned like you are now and want to help you record lots and lots.

EDIT: Oh yeah, this may explain stuff too http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOqI_Orr4SU

seyfried · Post by **seyfried** » July 31st, 2017, 12:32 pm

The 'tutorials' are great- how do I go about taking the 'I minute' test? Thanks.
seyfried

Post by **philchenevert** » July 31st, 2017, 12:56 pm

seyfried wrote:The 'tutorials' are great- how do I go about taking the 'I minute' test? Thanks.
seyfried

Glad you asked! How to Make your 1 minute test http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlaRY_-bcfs

and the amazing sequel How to U pload your 1 minut e test http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oTSlFSoEeY&feature=youtu.be

Let me know if these don't help or you need more heolp.

seyfried · Post by **seyfried** » August 1st, 2017, 11:30 am

Phil-thanks for the utube tutorials-they're very helpful.
I have taken my I minute test,recorded it as mp3(via audacity),found the page where we can add it as "test-Test" which then says that's not allowed. I cleared it off,by pressing the clear button, but now I am lost as to how to actually upload it.
Can you help further-theutube tutorial is not at all clear about that,and loses me.

Post by **philchenevert** » August 1st, 2017, 12:37 pm

seyfried wrote:Phil-thanks for the utube tutorials-they're very helpful.
I have taken my I minute test,recorded it as mp3(via audacity),found the page where we can add it as "test-Test" which then says that's not allowed. I cleared it off,by pressing the clear button, but now I am lost as to how to actually upload it.
Can you help further-theutube tutorial is not at all clear about that,and loses me.

Be Patient, all will become clear .... sooner or later. I will check and get back to you very soon. Hang in there.

Post by **philchenevert** » August 1st, 2017, 1:04 pm

I am back finally. Did you use the upload link shown in t he first post of every project ?

Upload your file with the LibriVox Uploader: https://librivox.org/login/uploader

If I left that out of the video t hen I really goofed up. In any case, use that link please. And let me know what happens.

Post by **TriciaG** » August 1st, 2017, 1:09 pm

seyfried wrote:Phil-thanks for the utube tutorials-they're very helpful.
I have taken my I minute test,recorded it as mp3(via audacity),found the page where we can add it as "test-Test" which then says that's not allowed. I cleared it off,by pressing the clear button, but now I am lost as to how to actually upload it.
Can you help further-theutube tutorial is not at all clear about that,and loses me.

You say you recorded it as MP3. That's not possible. Did you export it as an MP3?

seyfried · Post by **seyfried** » August 1st, 2017, 2:34 pm

I recorded it as always on audacity-which is always produced as 'wav'. I saved it on my desktop, and can convert it to mps
format using online-audio converter, which now tells me it can't convert the item because the file is unsupported.
How can I record it on audacity as an mp3 or save it as an mp3. You seem to recognize right away that it's not possible.
what do I do?

Post by **TriciaG** » August 1st, 2017, 2:46 pm

Did you install the LAME encoder for Audacity? Then you can export as MP3 directly in Audacity.

http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/faq_installation_and_plug_ins.html#lame

seyfried · Post by **seyfried** » August 1st, 2017, 2:58 pm

sounds like the right idea. so I clicked on the link you sent me, that took me to audacity instructions that suggested I click on zip download for lame installation,which I did. Now how do I know if my Audacity can record or save as MP3? Great if it works,but how do I know.?

Post by **TriciaG** » August 1st, 2017, 3:08 pm

Go to File/Export in Audacity (when you have recorded some audio). MP3 should be an option if it's installed correctly.

seyfried · Post by **seyfried** » August 1st, 2017, 4:00 pm

this will take quite some time..Audacity cannot do an MP3 because it cannot locate the LAME file, and I can't tell it where it is. It's only a short reading- can't librivox accept a 'wav' file?

Post by **TriciaG** » August 1st, 2017, 4:13 pm

Audacity cannot do an MP3 because it cannot locate the LAME file, and I can't tell it where it is

Did you unzip the Zip file? Where did it unzip to? That's where you need to tell Audacity to look for it.

seyfried wrote:can't librivox accept a 'wav' file?

No - it's got to be an MP3, and of the correct bit rate, or else it won't catalog correctly.

I haven't checked it, but see if this video helps at all: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rraizMiOf8s

Post by **philchenevert** » August 1st, 2017, 5:35 pm

That video is kinda old but it definitely deals with LAME somewhere in it. If it is not helpful, I'll make another more updat ed version.