Tuesday, March 29, 2005

Audacity to produce Podcasts

I think I finally settled on using Audacity to master my podcasts. Most importanly I need Audacity to export my final mp3 to audioblog.com. Using Audacity, I can produce my full length show, encode it and upload that file to audioblog.com for publishing. Audioblog.com still strips some of my ID3 tags and changes the name of the file to some undecipherable string of characters, but I'll live with that for the time being.

Audacity let's me import a large variety of audio file types and edit them while keeping a very low overhead. My last show was over 16 min long and the whole project weighs in at less than 150 MB where my other projects were topping 350 MB's! I still have to work out track management. I had a problem where I forgot to add a musical intro and i had to subsequently adjust the play positionings of each track all over again. It took too much time! I wish I could shift click and move a group of clips together. Oh well, for a free program, I can't complain.

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