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Podcasting - On a PC August 26, 2008

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First off I have to say thanks to Randy and Jay.  I had to hold them captive to help me go through all of the steps to create a podcast on a PC.  I have to start this by saying creating a podcast on a PC is doable, however, it takes more steps and there is not the seamless integration like the macs have.  I am disappointed the most by not being able to easily add a jingle or audio file.  Again, it is not that it is not doable, it just takes a few more steps. 

Before I get into the steps the first thing I had to do was to download Audacity.  Audacity is a free open source software for recording and editing sounds.  This was a simple download and easy to complete.  There are tutorials on Atomic Learning that will show you how to use this program.

Ok, here are the steps it took for me to complete this podcast and I have posted the podcast at the end of this blog.

  1. I recorded my voice on an iPod with a Belkin voice recorder.
  2. I synced my iPod to my DellLaptop and the voice memo was transferred immediately.
  3. I opened Audacity and imported an audio file.  The file was in my iTunes library as a wav. file.  It was listed under Unknown Album and Unknown Artist.  I am known now!
  4. I wanted to add a jingle so I had to convert a song from a m4a format to a mp3 format
  5. I then imported another audio track and brought it this audio file.
  6. I did some basic editing in Audacity and arranged the audio file and faded the jingle.
  7. I added a new audio track and recorded my voice directly into Audacity.
  8. I saved the file as a Audacity file first to edit it later if necessary.
  9. I saved the Audacity file as a mp3 file format and dropped it on my desktop.
  10. I uploaded it this post.
  11. That’s it….check it out and let me know if you have any tips!  We are already starting to search the web to find some sources for jingles so let me know what you use to create audio files.

ivans-pc-podcast.mp3

Here is a video showing our hard work using the new Mino Flip Video Camera.

Randy and Jay’s Big Day with the Boss

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1. cjearthtree - August 26, 2008

Ivan,

I know you know this, but others may not.

Be sure that when you download and install Audacity that you also download and install the LAME file so that you can export your audio as an mp3 rather than wav.

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/faq?s=install&item=lame-mp3

Chris