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We are currently at 15992 completed projects. Which one is going to be the big 16000? :mrgreen:
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I finally managed to find the Youtube Librivox Audiobook list and subscribe to it. Neat. As a covermaker, I vastly prefer the covers not being stretched to fit. And, I notice the photographic quality is somewhat diminished, and hope this can be corrected.

So this is an automated process. Perhaps this could be explained and videoed on a future Zoom session.
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msfry wrote: October 23rd, 2021, 6:22 pm I finally managed to find the Youtube Librivox Audiobook list and subscribe to it. Neat. As a covermaker, I vastly prefer the covers not being stretched to fit. And, I notice the photographic quality is somewhat diminished, and hope this can be corrected.

So this is an automated process. Perhaps this could be explained and videoed on a future Zoom session.
In the past I rescaled to covers to a 720p equivalent but sometimes YouTube ended up stretching it as a result. I now keep the original 300x300 image which is never stretched but the result is 240p which is a bit reduced quality. Ideally there would be a better quality image than the 300x300 that could be used since 300 pixels will never lead to anything better than a 240p video at YouTube.
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BengtW wrote: October 24th, 2021, 12:09 am Ideally there would be a better quality image than the 300x300 that could be used since 300 pixels will never lead to anything better than a 240p video at YouTube.
We all design in 600 x 600 or higher, for use on the CD Cover Inserts. But that is not submitted as a separate jpeg to LV. If there was a place to upload our larger artwork, I certainly would do it.
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msfry wrote: October 24th, 2021, 9:57 am
BengtW wrote: October 24th, 2021, 12:09 am Ideally there would be a better quality image than the 300x300 that could be used since 300 pixels will never lead to anything better than a 240p video at YouTube.
We all design in 600 x 600 or higher, for use on the CD Cover Inserts. But that is not submitted as a separate jpeg to LV. If there was a place to upload our larger artwork, I certainly would do it.
If the 600x600 image could be put to the archive that would be great. I will test now to upscale automatically to 600x600 from the 300x300 to see if it makes a better output after video rendering.
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I can give you one to try - but there is no way they can be included in the API at present, so I think we will have to grin and bear it.

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I got it now after I saw your PM, that is already on YouTube so I need something in advance of it being published if possible to inject it into the script. But 800x800 is a real beauty compared to 300x300 :thumbs:. Even if not in the API or on the project page, if it can be put on the internet archive with some sort of naming convention like adding _hd at the end would suffice for me to automatically find it.
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We are at 15999 - the next book cataloged will be number 16000. :-)
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And we are at 16000 this morning with https://librivox.org/tales-by-mikhail-saltykov-shchedrin/

Total number of projects 16674
Number of completed projects 16000
Number of completed non-English projects 2043
Total number of languages 100
Number of languages with a completed work 46
Number of completed solo projects 8473
Number of readers 11732
...who have completed something 11571
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Amazing, interested in what 54 languages that are in the works.
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BengtW wrote: October 25th, 2021, 10:20 am Amazing, interested in what 54 languages that are in the works.
Those aren't languages in the works, but ones without a full project of their own. Many of them are (completed) in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: https://librivox.org/group/512
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MaryAnnSpiegel wrote: October 25th, 2021, 8:37 am And we are at 16000 this morning with https://librivox.org/tales-by-mikhail-saltykov-shchedrin/
Ku:l! Congratuliations! 🍾🍾🍾
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Availle wrote: October 26th, 2021, 6:29 pm Congratulations indeed!

https://librivox.org/2021/10/26/librivox-celebrates-16000-audiobooks/
Am I only one not to be able to post a comment over there? 🤔
Error: You have entered an incorrect reCAPTCHA value.
Both on Chrome & Edge... I don`t see any reCAPTCHA in there, btw... 🦥
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I see a reCAPTCHA just above the Post Comment button. I am currently on an android phone.


EDIT: From Firefox in laptop I also see the reCAPTCHA just above the Post Comment button.
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