due South podfic: "Watching", written and read by Luzula

[luzula]

Title: Watching
Author and reader: me
Fandom: due South
Pairing: F/K
Rating: R
Format: mp3, 192 kbps
Length: 7 m 30 s
Notes: Here, have a spontaneously recorded little podficlet. My voice was kind of deep and a little bit hoarse today, so I thought I'd take advantage of that to record some porn.

Hmm, does the lack of metadata on my podfic files annoy people? I never use metadata myself, so I never enter any into my files, but if everyone else uses it, I guess I could start doing it.

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Comments

[laurie-ky.livejournal.com]

What do you mean by metadata? A blurb about what the story is about or a quote or two for it, or if it won any awards or was written for a challange or as a gift for somebody? That kind of stuff? Looks like you've got the basics and you did mention the magic word, 'porn.'

Laurie

[luzula]

No, I meant that in most music files, there's information about the artist, song title, album, genre, etc, that media players use to sort the files. Audacity lets you enter that kind of information when you export files into mp3, but I never do. And I have an impression that some podfic listeners like to use it to sort music from podfic, etc. I was kind of wondering if there are many people who use it.

[fish-echo.livejournal.com]

I'm a big fan of the meta data! If it's not too much work to add to files I'd really appreciate it.

[luzula]

What metadata would you like? Maybe artist = reader, and title = name of the fic, possibly with author name also. And genre = podfic?

[fish-echo.livejournal.com]

Here's my template:

TITLE: [Name of fic] {X of Y} *
ARTIST: Reader: [reader name] **
COMPOSER: Author: [author name] **
GENRE: Podfic
ALBUM NAME: [fandom] {AU} ***
TRACK NUMBERS: If it is a multi-file single story, or a series with multiple files, I also use track numbers to order the file.
NOTES/COMMENTS: I find if the readers stick a link to the podfic post it's easier for me to find my way back to leave comments for the reader. I sometimes put additional info here (like genre of the fic, or whither or not it NC17), but that's more hit or miss and is dependent upon the podfic in question. However, my general feeling is that more data is better (I also love card catalogues, is it any surprise?)

* for multi-file stories.

**if the name and the LJ name are different, I do [name (lj-name)].

***if it is part of a series (and not a multi-track single file) I do [Fandom] {AU} -- [Series name] . Also, I use abbreviations for fandom names.


And one more thing about podfics but not about meta data-- when readers say author names or reader names and the word is odd or has letters or other such things, I really appreciate it when it gets spelled with [the radio alphabet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_phonetic_alphabet)] because I'm not great at hearing things and then spelling them properly.

[luzula]

Ah, that's interesting, I'll try to do that. Thank you!

[fish-echo.livejournal.com]

Oh, that would be awesome, thank you!

[cybel]

My podbooks are the opposite:

Artist=author
Album artist=reader
Composer=Cover Artist

Not that it matters, really. If I want to keep a podfic that isn't tagged, I tag it as I like in iTunes so all my files are consistent. :-)

Still haven't listened to this one, btw. I'm SSSOOOOO far behind!

[luzula]

Huh, yeah, that's another version. But I guess it doesn't really matter which order you use as long as the same information is there...

And hey, it's not like you have an obligation to podbook everything. : )

[cybel]

Not an obligation, true. But I do as many as I can, especially if I want a copy myself. :-)

[roadrunner1896.livejournal.com]

Thank you. :)

[luzula]

I hope you enjoy it! : )

[cybel]

So:

http://audiofic.jinjurly.com/watching
http://audiofic.jinjurly.com/watching-audiobook

:-)

[aphelant.livejournal.com]

Everyone uses a different organizational method for their files, so I think if you included the title, author, and podficcer's name somewhere in the metadata, that is probably the most commonly used info?

Huh, this is a very interesting topic! I am very curious now as to how other people sort their podfic libraries. :O

[cybel]

I sort by multiple tags in iTunes so I can quickly browse by fandom, author, reader, title, cover artist, etc. Of course, most of my library consists of podbooks. Duh. :-)

[luzula]

I liked the idea of including a link back to where the podfic was first posted, too, so the listener could give feedback if they wanted to.

Basically, I just keep mine in a folder with subfolders for the readers, and I don't use metadata. If I save the podfic at all after listening, that is--I do that less and less nowadays, unless it's an exceptionally good podfic or I know that I'll want to relisten soon. I guess that's partly laziness, and partly because I know that the archive is there if I want the file again some time.