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A fast and furious Audacity tutorial
March 23rd, 2007 by Michael KreidlerFrom the podcasting section of About.com:
Note: You must first download and install Audacity before you can implement any of these instructions.
# Open Audacity.
# Click “file” and “new.”
# Make sure any external microphone is plugged into your computer and is recognized. To do this, (Windows) go to “control panel,” click on “sounds and audio devices” and look under “sound recording.” (In the “audio” folder). Your microphone should already be recognized in the drop down menu. If not, you may have to install your microphone by following the prompts listed and testing your microphone. The whole process takes about two minutes. (Mac’s follow a similar process-follow the prompts after installing your microphone).
# Click “record.” (Circular icon with red button)
# Record your audio.
When you’re finished, press the spacebar to stop recording or the square icon in the top navigation bar.
# Now edit your track(s) .
# You can import external audio (like music or sound effects) by clicking, “project” in the navigation bar.
# Add effects to your tracks by clicking on “effect” after highlighting a portion of track you want to enhance. Audacity has a number of great features here, including “Amplify” which lets you raise the volume on a quiet portion of track, “Equalization” which lets you clean up/modify your entire track once finished, and “Noise Removal” which allows you to target unwanted noise in a track and remove it universally with the push of a button.
# Mix your tracks. The easiest way to do this is to click “quick mix” under “project” in the navigation bar. However, you can also set the volume to each track by adjusting the top slider (downward arrow icon) in each track field left or right. When you click on the slider you’ll see the word “gain” come up as you adjust. Be aware if you set the volume too high it can result in “clipping” (maxing volume by going too far in the red zone). For more specifics on modifying each track, click on “Audio Track” in the Audacity Help Menu’s Table of Contents.
# Export your track as an MP3. Be aware that you’ll need something called the LAME library to do this. Go to Audacity and download the LAME library. Once downloaded, look for the LameLib file (Mac) or lame_enc.dll file (Windows) and save it in your Audacity program folder. Now go back to the file you want to convert in Audacity. Edit your ID3 Tags, and then choose your bit and sample rates. Finally, click on the “file” menu and select, “Export as MP3.”
Media Monkey for ID3 Tags and More
March 19th, 2007 by Michael Kreidler
I have been doing a lot of work with a new podcast and I have fallen in love with Media Monkey. It is such a pleasure to use it for editing of id3 tags. In one fell swoop I can insert all of the standard show info as well as placing the show notes in the lyrics tab and inserting the album art.
If you are looking for an easy to use tag editor, take a look at Media Monkey.
Features include:
- Organize music and edit tags in your audio library with a powerful, intuitive interface
- Automatically lookup and tag Album Art and other metadata
- Manage 50,000+ files in your music collection without bogging down
- Play MP3s and other audio formats, and never again worry about varying volume
- Record CDs into OGG, MP3, FLAC and WMA files
- Convert MP3s, OGG, FLAC and WMA files into other formats with the Audio Converter
- Create playlists and music mixes quickly and easily to suit any occasion
- Synchronize with iPods / MP3 players effortlessly and convert tracks on-the-fly
- Plus much more…
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Podium: A Podcast Solution for Education?
January 23rd, 2007 by Michael KreidlerPodium is a PC-based application, created by RM, designed specifically for the education market. It is an
easy-to-use piece of software that allows students of any age to create, edit and publish podcasts all from the same simple interface.
Podium is designed to allow students and teachers to communicate by creating enhanced podcasts, which incorporate audio, text and images. The tool, available for Windows-based systems, provides simple input fields for podcast and episode names, as well as credits. Images can be added to the podcast, and users can control audio via a waveform editor in the main interface.
“Podcasting allows educators and students to move closer to the ideology of 1:1 computing,” said Kevin Pawsey, managing director of RM Educational Software. “Many students already have access to iPods, and this allows teaching and learning to be done in an environment that is both stimulating and motivating using technology that they relate to; this is a simple to use but effective educational tool that will help increase student attainment across all areas of the curriculum.”
Podium also offers a scripting interface to facilitate “group working,” according to RM. This allows students to assign parts of the podcast to different members of a group by color coding text on the screen for individual speakers. (case study pdf)
The software has been trialled in a number of schools across the UK, but pricing and a release date for Podium have not yet been announced.