On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Jon "Top H= at" Jones <e= yeonus@gmail.com> wrote:

Worst come to worst, we can use = Google Docs as a repository- it will "soon be=A0possible" to uplo= ad any kind of file, which I would assume includes .mp3 files. However we d= ecide to do it, though, we'll need to put it's web link into the Gd= oc list.=20

On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Sara Brand <s= eraneko@gmail.com> wrote:

I had offered to help with this = project, but it turns out that I really don't have the time for it. Sor= ry guys.=20

On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Jon "Top H= at" Jones <eyeonus@gmail.com> wrote:

On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 5:12 AM, Oren <get.oren@gmail.com> wrote:

hey, the status of my mp3s is "on the way." Chin= ese new year is upon us.=A0=20

I'll also think very hard about solving the mp3 repository thing..= . Is there some way to export or import mp3s with smart.fm?=A0

As far as I know, the only way to import .mp3 files to Smart.fm is= to attach them to a lesson item, and there is no way to export them short = of playing one while you have something recording what comes out your speak= ers.

I agree that their backend makes mp3 management a chore (maybe it'= s just in china that it's very slow and can't list more than severa= l dozen items per page), but I almost feel like if there isn't a conven= ient way to port data or manage data... why get our stuff stuck there? It o= nly needs to be done once, but it's also a good idea to sniff out other= options.

Nope, I'm in the U.S., and it's just as slow for me, inclu= ding the 20 items per page thing. And I agree that the lack of good data ma= nagement is a low blow. The funny thing is, they used to have that s= tuff- before the recent interface changes, it was possible to make a= n entire lesson by importing, for instance, a text document. According to t= heir news blog, they'll be bringing that back at some point, once they&= #39;ve finished making the site work well enough to stop getting complaints= again.

As far as the getting stuck bit- that's part of the reason why I wa= nt an online repository for the audio. Thanks to the Google Doc you made, e= verything but the audio already has a single place online to go, and= I'm certain that, once all the simplified definitions are finished, it= would be a relatively simple matter to add the items as a lesson in any of= the other web-based language learning sites in extent. And if someone happ= ened to come across a learning site that supported Lojban pronunciation, we= wouldn't even need the audio for it.

On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 05:31, Jon "Top Hat&= quot; Jones <eyeonus@gmail.com> wrote:

I have come to the c= onclusion that it would be beneficial to this project if there was some sor= t of central online repository for the lojban audio re: the Smart.fm lesson= s, the reason being that it would be a simple matter for those of us who ar= e putting the entries in the lessons would be able to download the audio fo= r the entry from said repository.

Obviously this means that the audio must be done first, and so f= ar the only audio I am aware of is that which I have recorded myself, with = one exception, which unfortunately was not used for reasons that do not nee= d to be mentioned.

Speaking of which, I know that at least 3 people offered to record audi= o, what is the status of their recordings?

In any case, I am wonderi= ng if anyone has a suggestion for such a repository. Something free and eas= ily accessible would be best. I know there is a site which is used for spok= en audio, the name of which currently escapes me, but I am discouraged from= using it as the site's purpose, IIRC, is for conversational spoken Loj= ban, and the audio for the Smart.fm lessons is merely gismu and the occasio= nal {lo}, {se}, {te}, {ve}, and {xe}.

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