HPR1404: Editing pre-recorded audio in Audacity

In today's show I walk you through the very basics of "editing" a audio track that has been recorded outside Audacity. Audacity can be found at https://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Overview of Audacity

Audacity is a free, easy-to-use and multilingual audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems..

• Menubar overview: https://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/menu_reference.html
• Toolbars overview: https://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/toolbars_overview.html
• Multi-Tool "*" (also F6): https://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/multi_tool.html
• Set Project Rate to 44100 Hz

Editing the audio

The steps in this video include.

• File > Import > Your file
• Tracks > Stereo Track to Mono
• Effect > Amplify (Accept defaults)
• Delete audio: Highlight (click and drag) press Delete
• Undo: Ctrl + Z
• Intro Clip
• Outro Clip
• Move Track: (F6 Multitool) Ctrl - Click and drag
• Export the Track:
  • Confirm that the Project Rate is set to 44100 Hz (bottom left)
  • File -> Export and select FLAC File
  • Click Options... to reveal FLAC Export Setup
  • Set Level to 8 (best)
  • Set Bit depth to 24
  • Artist Name: Your name
  • Track Title: Your show title
  • Album Title: Hacker Public Radio
    

When you are ready you can contact admin@hackerpublicradio.org to get access to the FTP server. For more technical information see the README file and the Sample Show notes file.

https://hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr1404.webm
https://hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr1404.mp4

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