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We are currently at 15992 completed projects. Which one is going to be the big 16000?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Anne

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 . 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.

We are at 15999 - the next book cataloged will be number 16000.

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

Amazing, interested in what 54 languages that are in the works.

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

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!

Congratulations indeed!

https://librivox.org/2021/10/26/librivox-celebrates-16000-audiobooks/

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?

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