Asimov’s Science Fiction, May-June 2023 - ed. Sheila Williams

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  illodiini
  June 3rd, 2023
  

  

  Yay! I thought I’ll have to visit the old ones because of your AWOL. Thanks a bunch!

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  Hellblazer1138
  June 3rd, 2023
  

  Between building collections, torrenting and making YouTube videos I’m spreading myself to thin with all the projects I have going on. Lately it’s chaptering the Audible books that I find the hardest to get myself to do for the collections. The other week when I tried to upload a Guy Gavriel Kay collection but I kept getting an error and I have no idea why, so that probably won’t see the light of day any time soon. I try to get the Analog/Asimov’s magazines out when they release but I know I should do to more anthology uploads..

  Asimov's Science Fiction, May-June 2023 - ed. Sheila Williams
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  illodiini
  June 3rd, 2023
  

  

  I was of course kidding but nice of you to tell how it’s going.

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  ssafe05
  June 3rd, 2023
  

  

  Thank you Hellblazer. Nice to be so up to date. Don’t burn out.

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  ssimon2000
  June 3rd, 2023
  

  

  Thank you! So greatly appreciated!

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  Razor458
  June 4th, 2023
  

  

  Thanks so much for the latest issue, Hellblazer!

  Asimov's Science Fiction, May-June 2023 - ed. Sheila Williams
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  Razor458
  June 4th, 2023
  

  I’m sure all of us longtime followers agree that we wouldn’t begrudge any amount of time off you choose to take from uploading! Your contributions have been inestimable. You’re a gem!

  By the way, what’s your YouTube channel? Would like to follow.

  Asimov's Science Fiction, May-June 2023 - ed. Sheila Williams
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  Razor458
  June 4th, 2023
  

  Edit: I did find it :-) My initial YouTube search didn’t reveal anything under your username here, for some reason.

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  letsdocrimes
  June 6th, 2023
  

  I’ve definitely benefited from all your hard work, and I’d be happy to try to help find solutions to speed up the process. I know there is a program called Libation that can export chaptered rips of audible files, but I haven’t used it that way enough to know if their are issues with the output format, but when I have a minute I will run some tests and report my findings. If there are issues I also have python programming experience and have written some personal projects involving scraping the internet for information about media and using it to name and tag the files. Not sure how likely I’d be able to find book chapter information, but I can give that a try too.

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  letsdocrimes
  June 7th, 2023
  

  I ran a test processing chaptered mp3 files from an audible book using libation and it looks like it’s pulling chapter names from the audible file data and metadata. Libation allows you to adjust the file name and the title metadata output using the naming template system outlined here https://github.com/rmcrackan/Libation/blob/master/Documentation/NamingTemplates.md This seems pretty robust and promising. I’m going to look at some of your files and see If I can find the ethos to your naming style and try to recreate that using libation next.

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  Hellblazer1138
  June 8th, 2023
  

  I don’t mean that actually chaptering is hard. Getting myself to do them is the problem. When I gather up all the books from an author, let’s say Catherine Asaro, and there’s at least 27 audio books of various quality & format to go through it can be kind of daunting. Especially when you factor in that not every rip can be chaptered through automation, e.g. the original uploader stripped info, uploaded a single MP3, or MP3s with random breaks. For those I use Soundforge and go through the file by eye(I process the NLS books the same way). That might sound tedious, and it kind of is, but it is imperative for older rips because this is how I catch a lot of errors. The worst books are the old Nero Audible rips that have arbitrary cuts every 5 minutes regardless of whether or not the narrator was in the middle of a word.
  I don’t really trust Audible too much when it comes to their chapter placement so I like to use inAudible when I can for it’s ability to edit their position before conversion.
  Finding good art with decent resolution can also a huge time sink. And sometimes Audible’s art is trash and I end up making a variation; there’s a few examples in my recent Larry Niven collection.

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  letsdocrimes
  June 8th, 2023
  

  That makes sense. It would probably be a bigger project, but I might try to mess around with ffmpeg and some speech to text libraries and see If I can whip up something that finds chapters and non destructively splits and joins audio files. Obviously it would be tough to get a work all solution, but if you can allow for adjustments to what words its looking for for the chapter breaks and the quiet space gaps around the reading of the chapter it might be decent. The problem is that with something like that, no matter how decent it is you would want the ability to edit the chapter markers, and that and I imagine those things (visual representation of audio, navigation, playback, etc would take longer to program then the functionality to get that decent result.

  Asimov's Science Fiction, May-June 2023 - ed. Sheila Williams
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  MrsG
  June 12th, 2023
  

  

  Thanks

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  cheap4books
  March 30th, 2026
  

  what became of letsdocrimes

  Asimov's Science Fiction, May-June 2023 - ed. Sheila Williams

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