After a small bit of toying around I learned how to use the software program Audacity rather easily. I agree that it did have a high learning curve, but it was pretty much a trial by error experience. The song that I am using for my Flash slideshow was originally over 3 minutes long, and that wasn't fitting because the show itself was much shorter. I had mentioned before that I only wanted part of the song to play, so I edited it using Audacity and cut it down to 19 seconds, and spliced two parts of the song together. I have to give a shout out to DGJ (Jerz) for making the great reccomendation that I use this program. It was well worth the download.
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I just announced in EL200 today that next term, EL200 will focus on audio journalism (radio podcasting). So you'll have good opportunity to put your skills to use.
Posted by Dennis G. Jerz | November 13, 2006 4:57 PM
Posted on November 13, 2006 16:57
That sounds very interesting. It is my understanding that Podcasts are growing in popularity so fast.
Posted by Leslie Rodriguez | November 13, 2006 5:22 PM
Posted on November 13, 2006 17:22
Audacity has a permanent place in the dock on my computer! It's a great tool for being free, and since it's open source, you can get all sorts of plug-ins for it. One of the more useful ones to track down is the plug-in to let you export MP3s.
You'll learn that Audacity is good for some aspects of audio editing and not for others. It isn't robust as, say, the Sony audio program (whose name escapes me), but it does a good job of the basic stuff.
The good part about Audacity is that it works just the same on PC, Mac and Linux. There is virtually (at least between PC and Mac) no difference. So once it learn it, you should be good to go.
Posted by Mike Rubino | November 13, 2006 5:57 PM
Posted on November 13, 2006 17:57
Can Audacity turn an MP3 into a .wav file?
Posted by Amanda | November 13, 2006 6:43 PM
Posted on November 13, 2006 18:43
Yes Amanda and it is really easy to do as far as I can tell. I think you just change the format in which you save the file.
Posted by Leslie Rodriguez | November 13, 2006 7:19 PM
Posted on November 13, 2006 19:19
Hey, I've been meaning to mess around with some sound stuff lately, but I'm way out of the loop. I feel like so many other people can already do this stuff way better than me, so why try? But if you all insist that this program is easy, then maybe I'll give it a shot. In my spare time (laughter).
Posted by Karissa | November 14, 2006 9:12 PM
Posted on November 14, 2006 21:12
Karissa, it is really a tool that I can see being very useful in my future. I found that the help section of the program was rather self-explainitory and actually helpful for once. All you need to do is figure out what each symbol/button does and the rest comes naturally.
Posted by Leslie Rodriguez | November 15, 2006 4:06 AM
Posted on November 15, 2006 04:06
Ha! "In the loop"! Get it? Get it? Loop... pun...
Sorry, I hate when people leave comments like mine on blogs.
Posted by Mike Rubino | November 15, 2006 2:08 PM
Posted on November 15, 2006 14:08
Oh Mike....
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I hadn't realized I was making a pun. :-/ Serves me right.
Posted by Karissa | November 15, 2006 7:29 PM
Posted on November 15, 2006 19:29
I just laughed when I read "spare time" in the comment because none of us have any.
Posted by Leslie Rodriguez | November 15, 2006 7:59 PM
Posted on November 15, 2006 19:59