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COMPLETE[English] The Benson Murder Case - Van Dine - hok

Posted: Fri 18. May 2012, 20:26
by Cleogirl
The Benson Murder Case by S.S. Van Dine (1888-1939)

This project is now complete! All audio files can be found on our catalog page:
http://legamus.eu/blog/?p=177

New York dilettante Philo Vance decides to assist the police in investigating the death of another man-about-town because he finds the psychological aspects of the crime of interest and feels that they would be beyond the capacities of the police, even those of his friend District Attorney Markham. Vance investigates the circumstances under which the body was found and reconstructs the crime sufficiently to determine that the murderer is five feet, ten and a half inches in height. Together, Vance and Markham investigate Benson's business associates and romantic interests until Vance manages to pierce the murderer's alibi for the time of the murder and force a confession. Summary by Wikipedia
Text source: http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200341h.html (please only read from this text!)

Prooflistener: Nadine

Magic Window - Google.doc

Intro, Outro and Disclaimer for CC BY-NC-SA:


At the beginning of each file please say:
[Section number] of The Benson Murder Case by S.S. Van Dine. This Legamus recording may be distributed and adapted freely for non-commercial purposes, as long as Legamus is credited and any new creation is licensed under the same terms.
(if you wish: Read by [your name]**)
[Chapter title]

At the end of each section please say:
End of [Section number]
(if you wish: Read by [your name]** )
At the end of the project please say additionally:
"End of book title by author. For more information or to volunteer, please visit Legamus.eu"

**Please add your name at the beginning or the end, not in both places.

About recording:
Set your recording software to:
Channels: 1 (Mono)
Bit Rate: 128 kbps
Sample Rate: 44.1 kHz

Please leave 5 seconds silence at the end of your recording, or 10 seconds for files longer than 30 minutes!

Save files as:
128 kbps MP3
bensonmurdercase_##_vandine.mp3 (all lower-case) where ## is your section number. (e.g. bensonmurdercase_01_vandine.mp3)

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, please ask). Please mind upper and lower case!

Title: ## - [Section title]
Artist: S.S. Van Dine
Album:The Benson Murder Case
Genre: Speech
Track Number: Section Number (if sections are numbered from 1, section +1, if sections are numbered from 0)

How to upload your file:
Use http://ge.tt - you do not need to login, anonymous mode is sufficient.
Alternatively, please read this tutorial: http://legamus.eu/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=148 (note for downloaders)
When your file is uploaded, you will get a link. Please post the link here.

And now?
Please check for new posts in this thread until your section has been prooflistened.

Happy recording :)

Solo / Group project?: SOLO
Book Title: The Benson Murder Case
Author: S.S. Van Dine
Dates of birth and death of author: Born October 15, 1888. Died April 11, 1939
Language: English
Date of first publication: 1926
Wikipedia ink to author: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._S._Van_Dine
Wikipedia link to book: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Benson_Murder_Case
Number of sections the project will have: (please note that the sections should be less than 70 minutes long) 25
Does the project have a preface that will be recorded as a separate section? y/n n
Category (Fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama): Fiction
Tags that describe the book (like: place, time, historical people/events, mystery, fairy tale, horror/ghost story, philosophy, ... : New York City, murder mystery
For solo projects only:
What license do you choose for your project? CC BY-NC-SA

Re: SOLO (English) The Benson Murder Case, by SS Van Dine -

Posted: Fri 18. May 2012, 21:00
by Hokuspokus
Sounds like a nice project.
I'm you MC for this project. MW is prepared. To give you access to the google doc we use for this I need your email address. May I take the one you used to register here or would you prefer another one? It shouldn't be your most personnel private address.

Re: SOLO (English) The Benson Murder Case, by SS Van Dine -

Posted: Fri 18. May 2012, 21:06
by Cleogirl
Terrific, thanks Hokuspokus! Yes, by all means, use the email on my profile.

Cathy

Re: SOLO (English) The Benson Murder Case, by SS Van Dine -

Posted: Fri 18. May 2012, 21:07
by neckertb
I'm not being a super active MC here :oops: but I'd be happy to DPL this for you :)

Re: SOLO (English) The Benson Murder Case, by SS Van Dine -

Posted: Fri 18. May 2012, 21:30
by Cleogirl
Yay! Thanks Nadine! Nice to see you on your side of the pond.

Cathy

Re: SOLO (English) The Benson Murder Case, by SS Van Dine -

Posted: Wed 23. May 2012, 03:53
by Cleogirl
Say, how do we upload files? Cathy

Re: SOLO (English) The Benson Murder Case, by SS Van Dine -

Posted: Wed 23. May 2012, 05:41
by Hokuspokus
Best thing to use at the moment is ge.tt.
Simply type ge.tt into the URL field/address field of your browser, no need to sign up or anything. Click upload file, follow the instructions on the screen and in the end copy the URL from the URL field and post it here, please.
You can create a free account, but you don't need to.

I move us to readers found.

Re: SOLO (English) The Benson Murder Case, by SS Van Dine -

Posted: Wed 23. May 2012, 14:01
by Cleogirl
Thanks Hokuspokus! Nadine, my first section is up.

Cathy

Re: SOLO (English) The Benson Murder Case, by SS Van Dine -

Posted: Wed 23. May 2012, 17:53
by neckertb
And chapter 1 is PL OK :D

Re: SOLO (English) The Benson Murder Case, by SS Van Dine -

Posted: Sat 2. Jun 2012, 19:57
by Cleogirl
Sorry about the delay in posting the second chapter Nadine. It's now up. My pace should pick up now (I had a major shed residing and shingling project that took up two weekends :roll: )

Cathy

Re: SOLO (English) The Benson Murder Case, by SS Van Dine -

Posted: Sat 2. Jun 2012, 20:53
by neckertb
Well, you know me, I'm not the fastest DPL in the world anyway :wink:

And what's wrong with your pace? I am thrilled these days if I manage to upload one chapter a week :?

Re: SOLO (English) The Benson Murder Case, by SS Van Dine -

Posted: Sun 3. Jun 2012, 04:10
by Cleogirl
Oops, well, no pressure, Nadine. But it's been a rainy day and my dog's been quiet. I've got chapter 3 up now. I'll just post them as they come now without mentioning it.

Cathy

Re: SOLO (English) The Benson Murder Case, by SS Van Dine -

Posted: Sun 3. Jun 2012, 14:08
by neckertb
No, no, by all means, do mention them, else I won't know there's new chapters to PL!
Have a nice Sunday :)

Re: SOLO (English) The Benson Murder Case, by SS Van Dine -

Posted: Sun 3. Jun 2012, 17:21
by Cleogirl
Well, I guess I meant that I wouldn't mention them till you had caught up with me :mrgreen:

Cathy

Re: SOLO (English) The Benson Murder Case, by SS Van Dine -

Posted: Sun 3. Jun 2012, 19:52
by neckertb
Yeah, right... :wink:
I did see you sneaked chapter 4 in there too :lol:

Re: SOLO (English) The Benson Murder Case, by SS Van Dine -

Posted: Tue 5. Jun 2012, 08:39
by neckertb
Sections 2 and 4 are PL OK, there is a little stumble to edit out in section 3 at 11:00 ("my spec... my specialty").
:)

Re: SOLO (English) The Benson Murder Case, by SS Van Dine -

Posted: Tue 5. Jun 2012, 19:06
by Cleogirl
Thanks Nadine! Three is fixed.

Cathy

Re: SOLO (English) The Benson Murder Case, by SS Van Dine -

Posted: Tue 5. Jun 2012, 19:39
by neckertb
PL OK :)

Re: SOLO (English) The Benson Murder Case, by SS Van Dine -

Posted: Wed 6. Jun 2012, 17:06
by neckertb
All caught up, 5 is PL OK :)

Re: SOLO (English) The Benson Murder Case, by SS Van Dine -

Posted: Sun 10. Jun 2012, 22:18
by Cleogirl
Hi Nadine. I've posted chapters 6 and 7.

Cathy