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The reader will record the following at the beginning and end of each file:
No more than 0.5 to 1 second of silence at the beginning of the recording! START of recording (Intro):
"Chapter [number] of The Red Man's Continent. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information, or to volunteer, please visit: librivox DOT org"
If you wish, say:
"Recording by [your name], [city, your blog, podcast, web address]"
Say: "The Red Man's Continent, by Ellsworth Huntington. [Chapter]"
For the second and all subsequent sections, you may optionally use the shortened form of this intro disclaimer:
"Chapter [number] of The Red Man's Continent by Ellsworth Huntington. This LibriVox recording is in the Public Domain."
If you wish, say:
"Recording by [your name], [city, your blog, podcast, web address]"
Only if applicable, say: "[Chapter title]"
END of recording:
At the end of the section, say: "End of [Chapter]"
If you wish, say: "Recording by [your name], [city, your blog, podcast, web address]"
At the end of the book, say (in addition): "End of The Red Man's Continent, by Ellsworth Huntington. "
There should be 5 seconds silence at the end of the recording.
Example filename redmanscontinent_##_huntington_128kb.mp3 (all lower-case) where ## is the section number (e.g. redmanscontinent_01_huntington_128kb.mp3)
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This is set up. I wonder what happened to the formatting at the beginning of your post.
EDIT: I just saw that someone else is soloing this first volume, although he hasn't posted anything yet. viewtopic.php?f=28&t=67311 Did you still want to do this first volume?
If it wouldn't be too selfish and egocentric and all those other bad things, yes, I would like to do the first. And thanks for the help with the set-up. Jim
I need to get my numbers straight. I changed the Volume number in the heading to 01 because it is the first of 48. Is that right? And I noticed that the file id designates a double asterisk, but there are only 5 chapters. Is that because I should anticipate dividing some of the chapters and that eventually we will have double digits? Thanks, Jim
I put the 01 series number in the database entry already, so that's taken care of.
You can put either one or two digits in the file names. The template defaults to 2 and doesn't change when you say it's going to be less than 10. The validator (cataloging system) will either add a 0 or take it away - I can't remember what it does at the moment - so as long as you're consistent with naming them either all with 1 or 2 digits, the system will take care of the rest.
Thanks for clarifying. Another question I have is do you want me to do the prefaces. I had decided not to, but I haven't heard the official word, although you did set up for chapters only, so that may be the answer to my question. Thanks again and again, Jim
I didn't look at the text, so I didn't know there were prefaces. You as BC/soloist can choose whether or not to do prefaces or appendices (or footnotes). So if you chose not to do them, you don't have to do them.
