[etni] Fw: the wonders of audacity

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Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 23:07:48 +0300
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From: Sharon Tzur - sharontzu5@xxxxxxx
Subject: the wonders of audacity

I've been playing around with audacity and I've found some great features.

First, it's very easy to make recordings and to save them as either mp3 
format (for mp3 players) or in a format for audio CDs. I didn't know about 
the latter option. What you do is save the recording in WAV format - and 
then use Windows Media player (Or Nero, or whatever) to burn the recording 
onto CD.

Even better, I found an easy way to divide into tracks. I used to make a 
different recording for each paragraph and save it under a certain name. 
However, I found that you can make one long recording, and either as you go, 
or at the end, click at every place where you would like to split the 
recording. (The nice thing about the program is that as you record, you see 
this "wavy line pattern" - you can always click anywhere on the wavy line to 
hear just a section of your recorded text.) You can give each "section" a 
name. Then, you can do "export multiple", and it will split your recording 
into separate files. You can do this with either as mp3 files (for mp3 
players) or with the wav files (for burning CDs). If you don't want to give 
each section a name, you can choose to have it automatically number them for 
you in consecutive order. For example, you can save the recording as Boring 
Unseen, and it will automatically be saved as Boring Unseen-1, Boring 
Unseen-2. Later, you can rename files if you want to change, say, Boring 
Unseen 6 to Boring Unseen Q1.

Even more fantastic, I discovered that I can plug my tape recorder into the 
"line in" of my computer (usually it's marked in blue), and then I can play 
the tape and have it recorded in Audacity, which means I can convert my 
tapes to either CDs or MPs - and if I want to take just a bit of time, I can 
divide it into sections -
( paragraphs and questions numbers) as I described above. That means that if 
we DO move to CDs or MP3 - I won't have to toss all my old bagrut tapes. 
That's great news. - I might do that with some of my old music tapes, though 
I'm only able to do it for now in mono - which is fine for our texts.

I also want to say that it is not a hard program to use and there is lots of 
online help available. (That's how I was able to figure out the CD option 
and the sectioning options).

Ps - to save in mp3 format, you must download a plug-in for audacity. 
Instructions are on the audacity site.

 


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