This project is now complete! You can view the catalog page here:
http://www.archive.org/details/mother_goose_prose_librivox
- How to claim a part, and 'how it all works' here
To find a section to record, simply look below at the sections. All the ones without names beside them are up for grabs. Click "Post reply" at the top left of the screen and tell us which section you'd like to read (include the blue number, please). Read below for what to do before, during and after your recording. - New to recording?
Please read our Newbie Guide to Recording! - Is there a deadline?
Target completion date of this project: October 31, 2006 - but try to send your recordings as soon as you can. If you cannot do your section, for whatever reason, just let me know and it'll go back to the pool. There's no shame in this; we're all volunteers and things happen. - Where do I find the text?
Gutenberg e-text: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5312 - Please claim Rhymes (the blue numbers)!
Reader list last updated: Nov 20 2006
Note that if I have not heard from you by TBD, I will reassign your chapter(s).
Edit - BEFORE recording:
Please check the Recording Notes:
http://librivox.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=6427#6430
Set your recording software to:
Bit Rate: 128 kbps
Sample Rate: 44.1 kHz preferred, 32 and 22.5 also acceptable - DURING recording:
Make sure you add this to the beginning and end of your recording:
Start of recording (Intro)- "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:
"Name of Rhyme, From Mother Goose in Prose, by L. Frank Baum"
End of recording- At the end of the section, say:
�End of Name of Rhyme" - At the end of the book, say (in addition):
"End of Mother Goose in Prose, by L. Frank Baum."
Please leave 5 seconds silence at the end of your recording, or 10 seconds for files longer than 30 minutes!
Also, please remember to check this thread frequently for updates! - AFTER recording:
Save files as
128 kbps MP3
mother_goose_##_baum.mp3 , all lower-case, where ## is your chapter.
(mother_goose_01_baum.mp3)
ID3 V2 tags
(To find out more about ID3 tags, go to our wiki: http://librivox.org/wiki/moin.cgi/WhatIsID3)
Add the following tags to your .mp3 file (how you do this depends on which software you use if you are unsure about ID3 tags, send me a message). Please mind upper and lower case!
Title: Name of Rhyme
Artist: L. Frank Baum
Album: Mother Goose in Prose
Please ignore tags for Genre and Track Number - these will be filled in automatically at the cataloguing stage.
Transfer of files (completed recordings)
Files can either be posted here in the forum (link to your webspace) or
emailed via http://yousendit.com to: westwinds12 AT yahoo DOT com
(if you use yousendit, please post the resulting link in this thread)
I'll need the following information from you when you submit a recording:
- your name as you want it to appear in the LibriVox catalog,
- your webpage URL (if applicable)
- the runtime of the recording in format hh:mm:ss
Any questions?
Please post below or PM me.
Thanks BC - Westwinds12
Why don't you try editing the first post to put your email address as the place to send yousendit files? Just hit the little 'edit' button up in the upper right corner, and you'll be taken to something that looks a lot like a reply-posting screen, except that the editing window is already filled with text. Scroll down in that window to near the bottom, to the After recording bit - down to Transfer of files. Currently, the text reads:
who would have guessed...