A Question about end tags

Rags57 · Post by **Rags57** » January 29th, 2023, 11:26 am

You state in your guidlines that the "end tag" ("End of [work]. This recording is in the public domain.") come 0.5 to 1 second after the end of the text, When I record and listen to it this way, it feels jarring. Are there practical reasons for this that I don't know about? Is it possible to relax the timing to, say 2 to 2.5 seconds?

Thank you for your kind attention.

Post by **philchenevert** » January 29th, 2023, 11:59 am

Yes, that would be jarring. I don't think there are any specifications about the space between ending a section and saying "....end of chapter 3". I always do what seems right, about 2 or 3 seconds. We DO require that the ending silence, be about 5 seconds, meaning what comes after "....end of chapter 3" and the end of the track. But maybe we are talking about different things. Keep asking questions!

SowasVon · Post by **SowasVon** » January 29th, 2023, 5:51 pm

Rags57 wrote: ↑January 29th, 2023, 11:26 am You state in your guidlines that the "end tag" ("End of [work]. This recording is in the public domain.") come 0.5 to 1 second after the end of the text, When I record and listen to it this way, it feels jarring. Are there practical reasons for this that I don't know about? Is it possible to relax the timing to, say 2 to 2.5 seconds?

Thank you for your kind attention.

Where are you finding this info? It sounds like this could be a mixup between info on the start and end tags.
Going by the current project template, these are the rules:
Start: 0.5 to 1 seconds of silence, text of start tag (with a mention of the public domain)
End: text of end tag (public domain not mentioned), 5 seconds of silence
It doesn't say in the template how long the silence before the end tag text has to be, though.

Post by **TriciaG** » January 29th, 2023, 5:57 pm

Going by the current project template, these are the rules:
Start: 0.5 to 1 seconds of silence, text of start tag (with a mention of the public domain)
End: text of end tag (public domain not mentioned), 5 seconds of silence

Not quite true for all cases. Poetry (such as the weekly and fortnightly poetry) has the public domain mention at the end.

But yes - 0.5 to 1 second of silence at the very beginning, 5 seconds at the very end. And no set-in-stone number of seconds between the main text and the "End of" wording at the end.