Creating Your Podcast (Audacity and uploadiing options)

Creating Your Podcast on a PC using Audacity

The application we will be using today to capture and edit sound is a software application named "Audacity".Audacity is a free program that can be used with both a Mac or a PC. Using Audacity you can record directly to the computer using an inexpensive microphone and you can then edit and layer your sound tracks.The free download for Audacity can be found here

If you have questions later on using Audacity you can check out these online tutorials for additional help and tips: Audacity TutorialsYour finished product using Audacity will be a WAV sound file. A WAV sound file takes up much more memory than an MP3 file so we want to convert the file to MP3 using audacity with lame.

We will use an Audacity Tutorial created in Flash by Jason Van Orden
http://www.how-to-podcast-tutorial.com/videos/01-audacity-setup/audacity-setup.html
We will use the tutorial for many other tips.

Create an account on http://www.ourmedia.org (with spinexpress) or http://www.archive.org/
Upload an image and link to your blog profiles
Upload your audio .mp3 file (note: problems uploading audio this week)

Other Tools to upload
1. Podbean http://www.podbean.com/ * Tom's reccommendation
2. PCastBaby http://www.pcastbaby.com
Another source to upload audio and video podcasts (10 meg free, then a cost)
3. Your school website