COMPLETE: Weekly Poetry - My Madonna by Robert Service

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12makoto
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earthcalling wrote:...it's completely unnecessary to upload files from, say, the LibriVox upload server to a different server before creating the listen link.
Sure, there are plenty of reasons.
  1. File names can be created wrong.
  2. ID3 tags are wrong or missing (including author and album).
  3. Multiple files in multiple locations create redundancy backups.
  4. Having all the files in a project with the same url except the few letters in the initials makes it extremely easy to move them around on the catalog page like you have to in a poetry collection.
Just for a few. All of these have happened in most of the projects I have BCed, including this one.
jennette wrote:But Librivox files normally do stream for me, so it's not a browser setting or OS issue on my end as far as I can tell.
Me too, but checking on 6 different browsers (I have a slew of them at hand due to being a web developer by trade), I'm willing to bet money that you too are using FireFox (or Netscape which uses the exact same engine as FireFox), why, because on both Win and Mac machines, that was the only one that didn't open those files out of 6 browsers. I would say that it is a browser issue. But, I'm still not sure why.
jennette wrote:...I figured it didn't matter too much in the long run. Wink
Exactly, in my world, poems are subject to interpretation. How they are read, how they are pronounced, what they mean. I got so irritated in school with English teachers who told you how a certain poem is supposed to be interpreted. So, here, anything goes with a poem (as long as it's not offensive) ^_^

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jennette wrote:
alanclare wrote: I read that Robert Service wrote poetry while he was in Paris, so I thought it was a good bet to pronounce "Saint Hilaire" à la France. Was I correct or not?
I think it's definitely a "good bet," but without hearing him read it or being told better by a Service scholar I have no idea whether he meant for it to be pronounced as the French would. I tried it both ways and ended up anglicizing it because my English is WAY better than my French. But my first instinct was to go French.

To further muddle things, while trying to look up the proper French pronunciation I noticed that in the poem as printed in this thread it's spelled Hillaire, which is either a typo (because on the internet it seemed to be spelled with one "l" more often) or maybe he wasn't meaning to refer to a literal church in the literal French place Saint-Hilaire and it was more fictionalized.

In the spirit of LibriVox, I figured it didn't matter too much in the long run. ;)
First, I'm not a Service scholar. Though I do know a bit about him. This poem was from his first book "Spells of the Yukon and other verses" ("Songs of a Sourdough" in Britain) He was in Canada at the time though this particular poem feels much more like those written later in France.

As for the spelling, Gutenberg has it as Saint Hillaire as does my hard copy of the book here.

So I really have no answer just a bit of information on where he was at the time and a hardy agreement that this is LibriVox, pronounce it how you see fit.
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Post by delibab »

My rather inept attempt!
http://upload.nickydonuts.com/uploads/200708/my_madonna_service_DB.mp3

This is my first recording, so I live in hope that it is 'passable'.

Please let know if I should be doing something different.. (well - apart from buying a 'real' microphone!)

Wishing you all an enjoyable weekend.

Délibáb
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Here's mine: http://www.mediafire.com/?djgdnyjxzby

Wow, busy week. I've given you some more spaces in the magic window just in case.
Last edited by kristin on August 17th, 2007, 1:47 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Post by llama »

Great poem:
This is my first go at anything. Any feedback would be great!

Thanks, and here it is:
http://www.alaskageo.com/~david/voice/my_madonna_service_dkl.mp3

David Lommel
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Great to see you here Délibáb, and llama!!!

Délibáb excellent recording. Just a few background clicks, but nothing obtrusive. Great reading!

David, I think I'm going to up the volume on yours just a tad too. But, overall good job!

Also, I'm going to enter your catalog names as Délibáb and David Lommel unless you say otherwise. Also is there a web page you would like for your catalog page to link to? Please let me know either way. Thanks!

Kristin, thanks for being on top of that. This bunch of recordings makes it 19, so I was starting to run out of breathing room.

Sean
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12makoto wrote: Kristin, thanks for being on top of that. This bunch of recordings makes it 19, so I was starting to run out of breathing room.

Sean
For future knowledge, you can assign more sections than are there already if you need them immediately. Just be sure to let your MC know if you do it because they will need to change the number in the database.
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12makoto wrote:I'm willing to bet money that you too are using FireFox (or Netscape which uses the exact same engine as FireFox), why, because on both Win and Mac machines, that was the only one that didn't open those files out of 6 browsers. I would say that it is a browser issue. But, I'm still not sure why.
Sean

No worries. But don't bet that money! I use Safari. :)
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Sean,
Please use "Délibáb" as the name, and I do not have any web page to link to..
Thanks,
Délibáb
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delibab wrote:Sean,
Please use "Délibáb" as the name, and I do not have any web page to link to..
Thanks,
Délibáb
Great thanks, Délibáb!

Sean
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Post by llama »

Sean-
I don't have a webpage to link to just yet either.
David Lommel is fine for the catalog name.

David
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Post by Mary Mac »

I've missed a couple of weeks. This was a great one to come back and record. Here it is.

Mary

http://www.mediafire.com/?doaozzlxebn
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My run at it this week:

http://goodbooksyoushouldread.net/jklns/librivox/my_madonna_service_jsj.mp3

Jon
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Thanks Mary and Jon, you each sound great!

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This week's poem is now CLOSED!.

Thanks for everyone who participated, and great showing all. Please put in all your great works for the next poem To My Cat.

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