Cutting time short with Audacity
A few of you who have come by recently may have noticed that I have started to educate myself with podcasting and some of the services and software that is involved. Today I will talk about a piece of software called Audacity. This is a free program that lets you edit your audio files. It works on many platforms and the code is open source. If you know how to make changes, then you have the power to do so.
I don’t know much about sound editing, but I thought that I would give it a go and try it out. I wake up each day and try and remember what I just dreamt of. The audio is full of “Uhs”, “Ands”, and “Buts” along with a lot of silence. My digital voice recorder also has a nack of adding a few scratch sounds here and there.
It was pretty easy to figure out how to select a portion of audio and then cut it out. I started out with over five minutes of audio and chopped it down to just over two minutes. That should save on some bandwidth! Because I am a little new at this, it did take me a while to do all the editing. Also, my audio file sounds like I never come to the end of a sentence. I’ll have to work at it a little more to do it the rite way, but I like what I am hearing already.
If you are podcasting and need a way to edit your audio files, then I recommend Audacity. If you are interested in hearing my results, then check out my audio blog called Lewies Dreamy Audio or subscribe to the RSS feed.
Tags: Podcasting, Podcasts, iPod, MP3, Audio, Audacity, Free, Open Source, Software, Broadcasting, Sound Editing, Sound, Editing
July 1st, 2005 at 5:40 am
I don’t know what I’d do without you, Lewie! You do all the testing and research. It saves me so much time and effort.
December 14th, 2005 at 10:58 pm
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May 4th, 2006 at 2:38 am
[…] I recently pulled out my W-10 Digital Voice Recorder and started grabbing the old files from it. I immediatley found two things that I just hated about this thing. First - the speed at wich files are transfered to the computer is very slow. The other is these thwap sounds. The recorder inserts these high noises of clicks, thwaps and scratches. I eventaully found a program to help me edit the files to remove the sounds called Audacity. The thing is, these sounds shouldn’t be there in the first place. Hopefully with the WS-200S that I just purchased, these problems will not be apparent anymore. […]