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Cori
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 Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2008 10:14 pm Post subject: WANTED: December Community Podcast contributions (txt/mp3) |
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Podcasts are fun. LibriVox podcasts are particularly fun. Please help me put the "Community" in "LibriVox Community Podcast" and consider contributing to one or more of the podcasts planned below.
4th December Deadline expired ... listen to the finished show (91)! http://www.archive.org/details/librivox_community
11th December Deadline expired ... processing in progress (92)!
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18th December: LibriVoxing Start-up - quick answers to some/all of the following questions:
* What aspect of a project gets your attention most? (Are you attracted by authors you like, projects BCed by friends, particular genres, or what?)
* How do you decide what to record?
* What do you HAVE to do before starting to record?
* What one piece of practical advice would you give to a completely new LibriVoxer? (please assume they already know about "have fun".)
DEADLINE: 4pm GMT, Weds 17th Dec.
25th December: The best audio-text things you've listened to this year!
Commercial audiobooks, podiobooks, podcasts and everything LibriVox. Let's really celebrate our ears. Just record your part ... though if you have the energy, it would be really helpful if you could pick out a sample of any LibriVox books you mention, too.
DEADLINE: 4pm GMT, Monday 22nd December. STRICTLY NO LATE ADMITTANCE
Possible Questions:
Why bother? Won't someone else contribute? Actually, no. Some generous people give very freely of their time and text / voice, but mostly I have to PM people directly and ask for podcast content. It'd be lovely not to have to do that at all this month!
Doesn't it have to be in some whacky audio file format? Nope, regular MP3 will do. Though if you'd like to send me any other format (small WAV, FLAC, OGG, trained parrot, etc.), feel free!
Isn't it hard to just talk into a microphone without printed / pre-written words? It differs for people, but myself, yes, I think so. I almost always have a script which I write beforehand. It doesn't take long ... I pretty much type out what think anyway, and then I take a bit of time to polish it up and make it sound great. Give it a go.
I can't think of anything clever / funny / cool. That's fine, you'll get paid exactly the same anyway. (Free PD audiobook of your choice! Over 400 days'worth to choose from!) Our podcasts are just meant to be fun to listen to, so you really can just say anything and it'll be alright.
I can't record, is there another way to contribute? YES! Just PM me or email, and I'll get someone to record what you write. Please state if you have a strong preference about voice gender or accent -- although if I can't match that, I'll record it myself, so be warned. 
I have a WAY better idea for a podcast than any of these! Neato! It's a lot of fun to put together a podcast, and if you'd like to give it a go, we'll help in any way we can (you just need to do the audio, for starters, I'll upload / blog / RSS-feed it.) Or PM me if you don't feel like hosting and I'll use it / pass it on to another host.
I have another question?!?! Just post below and ask it. 
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Great Plains
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| Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2008 10:34 pm Post subject: Re: WANTED: December Community Podcast contributions (txt/mp |
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This sounds like fun. Other than answering the questions, let me know if I can help in any way.
| Cori wrote: | | Doesn't it have to be in some whacky audio file format? Nope, regular MP3 will do. Though if you'd like to send me any other format (small WAV, FLAC, OGG, trained parrot, etc.), feel free! |
I would recommend against "trained parrot". I tried saving my file once as a trained parrot, but when I compressed it, it got gross.
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AVATC
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Hi, Cori! If my schedule permits, I'd like to contribute on at least one of the shows other than the one this week. I have a few questions for you that weren't covered in your list. I haven't heard the previous podcasts or read any previous threads concerning them, so I apologize if the answers are readily available elsewhere:
1) Do you have a standard intro/outro that each contributor should include?
2) Do the segments have a standard length?
3) I have a library of royalty-free music. Am I correct in thinking that its use is prohibited on the podcasts as it is with the literature?
4) I liked seeing your theme and deadline for each week. Given your comments about PMing people, I'm guessing you usually don't post a request like this one. Will you please continue this format for future months? Contributing to podcasts may be a case of "out of sight, out of mind"! Seeing a post like this one encourages me and others to participate.
Thanks so much!
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Cori
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| AVATC wrote: | | I haven't heard the previous podcasts or read any previous threads concerning them, so I apologize if the answers are readily available elsewhere: |
No, I don't think I have answered these before, but even if I had, ask anyway ... the answers might have changed or been refined since the last go-round.
1) Do you have a standard intro/outro that each contributor should include?
No, it's up to you what you say, or just sail into an answer and I'll introduce you (I usually use forum names, unless people are unpronouncable or might get muddled with other contributors.) You don't need to do the dedication to the public domain, and the time/date is done at the beginning of the podcast for everyone.
2) Do the segments have a standard length?
No, just record whatever you're wanting to say. If it's very long, I may prune slightly, or split into two parts to use. Even just 30secs would be fine, though, and I've had some great contributions that length.
3) I have a library of royalty-free music. Am I correct in thinking that its use is prohibited on the podcasts as it is with the literature?
Ah, tricky. The podcasts as a whole are listed inside a Public Domain item at archive.org. However, some podcasts have used Creative Commons music or content, with a clear statement in the show that it's not the usual licence. These aren't formal LibriVox recordings, so we don't feel quite as bound by the LV rules as usual ... but I do try to stick to the PD thang. Which didn't really answer your question. If royalty-free music was used in the podcast, the world wouldn't end, and we'd slap an appropriate creative-commons licence on it.
4) I liked seeing your theme and deadline for each week. Given your comments about PMing people, I'm guessing you usually don't post a request like this one. Will you please continue this format for future months? Contributing to podcasts may be a case of "out of sight, out of mind"! Seeing a post like this one encourages me and others to participate.
I do put up threads from time to time, but then retire them to a dark corner in between, to save on clutter. I've also done themed shows where the request for contributions went into a genre topic. My first show ever, I planned it with military precision, and I don't think I opened that up at all, I had very specific voices in mind for each segment. So, it depends on the show, really. I have put requests in the past in the podcast thread itself, and perhaps they get a bit 'lost' in there ... I'll go with your suggestion and keep this thread going for anyone who wants to host a podcast and request contributions, or anyone who is willing to help with hosts' random ideas.
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Great Plains wrote:
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I would recommend against "trained parrot". I tried saving my file once as a trained parrot, but when I compressed it, it got gross. |
(Suspiciously) Is there really something called a parrot file, or are you displaying a ridiculous penchant for solemnity imbibed with frivolity?
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| catchpenny wrote: | Great Plains wrote:
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I would recommend against "trained parrot". I tried saving my file once as a trained parrot, but when I compressed it, it got gross. |
(Suspiciously) Is there really something called a parrot file, or are you displaying a ridiculous penchant for solemnity imbibed with frivolity? |
It's the penchant thing. 
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| Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 11:35 am Post subject: |
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This is a great idea and I'm particularly glad that librivox podcasts are back! I also add to the plea of keeping it up for future podcasts too.
Just some questions about the 25th December theme:
| Quote: | | Commercial audiobooks |
I guess we have the right to quote commercial audiobooks, my question is how much time is a righteous quote and how much is copyright infringement?
| Quote: | | Just record your part |
What do you mean? Is It ok if we record just our comments(or let someone else record our text) and blend them in with audio excerpts from the recording we're celebrating/prizing?
Furthermore, am I right to guess that with best recordings we've listened to is to be understood the fortunate coincidence of a great reading performance with a really great book? (it would be weird to say: this is the best audiobook I've listened to this year, but the story really sucks. Of course this might happen sometime, regardless of how weird it sounds.)
cheers!
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| daniele wrote: | This is a great idea! I add to the plea of keeping it up for future podcasts too.
Just some questions about the 25th December theme:
what do you mean with audio-text? Audiobooks only... right? |
No, she says:
| Cori wrote: | | Commercial audiobooks, podiobooks, podcasts and everything LibriVox. |
| Quote: | | I guess we have the right to quote commercial audiobooks, my question is how much time is a righteous quote and how much is copyright infringement? |
No more than a few sentences. But Fair Use does cover reviews, so you should be fine. But, of course, IANAL and YMMV and all that.
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| Quote: | | No more than a few sentences. But Fair Use does cover reviews, so you should be fine. But, of course, IANAL and YMMV and all that. |
Thanks, Daniel, I got it now. I figured it couldn't be much more than that, and by the by, longer quotes would probably be tiresome for podcast listeners.
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| Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 2:58 pm Post subject: |
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| How should we submit contributions? Attach an mp3 to an e-mail to you, or use the LibriVox uploader and choose your initials from the drop-down list? |
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Or, do we post them here or pm them to you?
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I'm pretty sure we use the LV uploader with Cori as the MC, and then send her the link by posting it here or via PM. At least, that's what we've done in the past.
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Thanks, Daniel!
(Haven't done this before, so I didn't know how it was done.) |
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Cori
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Exactly right, Daniel ... contributors, please choose 'cs' from the uploader menu and whizz them on up (then PM me the link). It's also helpful if you start the filename with "podcast-" and stick your initials in somewhere .... like "podcast-cs.mp3" or "podcast-cs-favbooks.mp3" or suchlike. It's not at all essential, but I'm one for an easy life.
Also, it's up to you all to define "best audiobooks" ... I have seen some reviews that say "fantastic narration, though the story didn't grip me much." Really, though, I reckon it'd be the blend of Great Story and Great Narration/Production ... the sort of thing that the moment someone even just hints they might consider listening to a book, you'd be brandishing the CDs at them and emailing links to download.
I'd be veeeery cautious about putting snips from commercial audiobooks in the podcast, though since it's kinda promotional, I'm not going to worry too much. I will edit anything that's worryingly long, though, so yes, a couple of sentences (or one, if it's a really waffley author) would be fine as a flavour.
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