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by Paul L
Tue Sep 30, 2014 8:47 pm
Forum: Audacity 2.x Feedback and Reviews
Topic: What was wrong with Contrast?
Replies: 2
Views: 939

What was wrong with Contrast?

I noticed this in the 2.0.6 release notes:
Analyze > Contrast could report very inaccurate rms levels.
Who can explain more about that to me? Who fixed it?
by Paul L
Mon Sep 29, 2014 2:52 am
Forum: Audiobook Production
Topic: Name this forum!
Replies: 46
Views: 8402

Re: Name this forum!

kozikowski wrote: The audiobook producer is spinning a yarn to a group of 12-year olds around a campfire. No difference.

Koz
I hope you don't intend to trivialize the work involved... Impromptu storytelling doesn't involve proofing and corrections so that one is faithful to a written text!
by Paul L
Sun Sep 28, 2014 6:58 am
Forum: Audiobook Production
Topic: Name this forum!
Replies: 46
Views: 8402

Re: Name this forum!

Or even shorter. Audiobook Production — Story Narration Sound Help — Koz So how about for subtitle "Recording and producing <something>"? Another oddball case, just to earn my laurels. Do we get people producing educational or documentary audio books? Is it always a story? Gale Nothing unusual abou...
by Paul L
Sun Sep 28, 2014 6:57 am
Forum: Audiobook Production
Topic: Name this forum!
Replies: 46
Views: 8402

Re: Name this forum!

You QA people just love thinking up the unlikeliest possible use cases, now don't you ? :-) OK so put those oddball people in Audio Processing then. I'm one of them. The only time I ever bought an audiobook, I edited it. Gale No kidding? There is DRM protecting the books I get via Audible. I could ...
by Paul L
Sun Sep 28, 2014 4:46 am
Forum: Audiobook Production
Topic: Name this forum!
Replies: 46
Views: 8402

Re: Name this forum!

You QA people just love thinking up the unlikeliest possible use cases, now don't you ? :-)
by Paul L
Sat Sep 27, 2014 10:50 pm
Forum: Audiobook Production
Topic: Name this forum!
Replies: 46
Views: 8402

Re: Name this forum!

That's if people do edit other rights holders' work, having purchased the book from Amazon. Or is this only about producing for ACX? Should ACX be in the subtitle? Probably yes. Gale But no! I do some work via ACX but there are other venues for paying work, and there's LibriVox, and they should all...
by Paul L
Sat Sep 27, 2014 4:38 am
Forum: Audiobook Production
Topic: Name this forum!
Replies: 46
Views: 8402

Re: Name this forum!

In the jargon of ACX contracts, one party is the "producer" and the other is the "rights holder" who is often but not always the author of the work.

"Producing" encompasses all the activities of narrating and editing and mastering. Or hiring out the same.
by Paul L
Sat Sep 27, 2014 1:49 am
Forum: Audiobook Production
Topic: Name this forum!
Replies: 46
Views: 8402

Re: Name this forum!

Fine, then, let's call it Shirley.
by Paul L
Fri Sep 26, 2014 7:36 pm
Forum: Audiobook Production
Topic: Name this forum!
Replies: 46
Views: 8402

Name this forum!

I think "Audiobook Producers" is the more appropriate term. I read authors' works -- I don't presume to call myself the author!
by Paul L
Fri Sep 26, 2014 4:38 pm
Forum: Podcasting with Audacity
Topic: Who reorganized the forum?
Replies: 6
Views: 1694

Re: Who reorganized the forum?

Is there a way we users can cross post in more than one relevant forum without just duplicating?