[group] Sandman's Rainy Day Stories by Abbie Phillips Walker - pc

[loon]

Oops sorry, I just thought it might sound better without the echo. Anyways, I don't need another PL, I am good with the first version so no need for extra work

Well, I did listen to it again and your anti-echo work has paid off. Much less room echo on this one - keep doing them this way. :-)

The replacement recording is PL OK. (Phil, you don't need to pull out the previous recording.) I've noted the new chapter length in the Magic Window.

[brunosmom]

Oops sorry, I just thought it might sound better without the echo. Anyways, I don't need another PL, I am good with the first version so no need for extra work

Well, I did listen to it again and your anti-echo work has paid off. Much less room echo on this one - keep doing them this way.

The replacement recording is PL OK. (Phil, you don't need to pull out the previous recording.) I've noted the new chapter length in the Magic Window.

Thank you! I couldn't have done it without your feedback

[ShellyM]

Hi, I have finished story #20, 04:36 duration. Thank you!

https://librivox.org/uploads/philchenevert/sandmansrainydaystories_20_walker_128kb.mp3

[loon]

Hi, I have finished story #20, 04:36 duration. Thank you!

https://librivox.org/uploads/philchenevert/sandmansrainydaystories_20_walker_128kb.mp3

Hi Shelly - there is one problem with your chapter. The program 'checker' reports your overall volume is at 85.6 dB while LibriVox wants the volume in the range 86.0-92.0 dB. If you open your chapter in your editor (Audacity?) and amplify the whole thing by 3.4 dB, then re-export and re-upload it will be right in the middle of the correct volume range. (Any amplification between 0.5 dB and 6.3 dB would work.)

Everything else about the chapter is first rate.

[ShellyM]

Hi, Thank you for your suggestion regarding the volume. It was spot on. Thank you! The new recording is below.

https://librivox.org/uploads/philchenevert/sandmansrainydaystories_20_walker_128kb.mp3

[loon]

Hi, Thank you for your suggestion regarding the volume. It was spot on. Thank you! The new recording is below.

https://librivox.org/uploads/philchenevert/sandmansrainydaystories_20_walker_128kb.mp3

Shelly -
PL OK, thank you.

I wonder what Johnnie Bear thought about his kin's skin being used as a blanket in the hunter's cabin.

[ShellyM]

Oh boy...never thought of that!

[yourbookvoice]

Story 17:

https://librivox.org/uploads/philchenevert/sandmansrainydaystories_17_walker_128kb.mp3
Time: 5m 1s
Kerry Adams
Your Book Voice

[loon]

Story 17:

https://librivox.org/uploads/philchenevert/sandmansrainydaystories_17_walker_128kb.mp3
Time: 5m 1s

Kerry -
Poetry! A surprise.

At ~0:39 there is a missed word: "For Tabby was as graceful" If you can fix it cleanly please do so (it's poetry, after all, and syllables count). If this will result in a bumpy edit, leave it as is.

AT ~3:32 there is a missed edit: "He was handsomer far - He was handsomer far"

[yourbookvoice]

Story 17 Resubmission:
https://librivox.org/uploads/philchenevert/sandmansrainydaystories_17_walker_128kb.mp3
Time: 4m 59s
Kerry Adams
Your Book Voice

[loon]

Story 17 Resubmission:
https://librivox.org/uploads/philchenevert/sandmansrainydaystories_17_walker_128kb.mp3
Time: 4m 59s

Thanks for the quick edit. Story 17 is PL OK.

[Heather6542]

Hi Phil,
I finished recording Plaid Trousers. Let me know if I need to change anything.

Thank you,
Heather

https://librivox.org/uploads/philchenevert/sandmansrainydaystories_21_walker_128kb.mp3

[philchenevert]

Hi Phil,
I finished recording Plaid Trousers. Let me know if I need to change anything.

Thank you,
Heather

https://librivox.org/uploads/philchenevert/sandmansrainydaystories_21_walker_128kb.mp3

Thanks Heather. Petunia the Perky LibriVox Penguin(a volunteer)will put this into the Magic Window for proof listening.

[Heather6542]

Hi Phil,
I forgot to add that Plaid Trousers was 8 :40.

[loon]

I finished recording Plaid Trousers. Let me know if I need to change anything.
https://librivox.org/uploads/philchenevert/sandmansrainydaystories_21_walker_128kb.mp3

Heather -
Your chapter needs two easy changes:
1) The silence before you start reading should never be longer than 1 second (around half a second is ideal). I measure just over 5.1 seconds of opening silence, so you should trim off about 4 1/2 seconds from the very start of the chapter.
2) The silence after your last word should be at least 5 seconds. (Up to 10 seconds of ending silence is allowed in LibriVox recordings, but it's quite rare for any readers to include that much.) I'm seeing slightly less than 4.2 seconds of silence at the end of your chapter. Please add around a second of silence to the end of your chapter. It's possible to tell Audacity to generate mathematically-perfect silence, but a better way is to copy something like 0.8 to 1.0 second from the closing silence and pasting that onto the very end of the recording. That will be "room tone" - the background noise as picked up in your recording location.

Your recording of the story itself is nicely done and well within all the technical specs (thank you). Once you make the edits to the ends of the chapter and upload again all should be right with the world.

Mr. Fox is a bit of a trickster, isn't he!