When I grew up music was always playing in my house. My parents were young and liked Rock and Roll. They even went to see the Beatles in concert when I was a young girl. They passed their love of music on to me and I passed it on to my children. Music makes me feel happy and many days after work I crank the volume way up and “sit” dance and sing my way home. I have had a really hard time deciding on what songs to include. My podcast time ran out before my song choices. I had to continuously remove songs. I also was not very quick to learn that while in pause mode I was not able to snip the tracks. I also was like a maniac with the mouse and kept getting the choice of arrow tools confused. This led to multiple re-dos. I used fade in and fade out for most of the songs. Again, it took me awhile to realize this could be done with individual tracks and waiting many minutes to fade out an entire project at once, which didn’t really work well. When I finally got all the songs and narrative to meet the time requirement and sound alright I once again struggled for a long time trying to get my finished Audacity portion into the Beanpod.com. Thankfully Jana Woofter helped me via Facebook and phone. Thank you again, Jana. So here I sit three days late, sleep deprived and hopped up on coffee finishing this assignment. What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, right?
I used Real Player to download videos from YouTube. After the videos were downloaded I converted them to MP3 format. I downloaded Audacity and opened a new file. I dragged the MP3 music files into Audacity and edited them. The computer I used had a built in microphone so I did my narratives with the internal microphone. When I completed my recording in Audacity I saved the file by selecting Save Project. I named the file Debbie’s Podcast and finally ended up saving the file to my desktop. I did this because I lost the project a few times. When I saved the project in Audacity the file extension was .aud. I followed the tutorial link classmates had shown on the discussion section of the blackboard. The tutorial showed saving the file as an MP3 file in Windows Media Player. I downloaded Beanpod.com and registered. I then logged into Beanpod.com and scrolled down to where the files are imported. I selected desktop and the file that contained the Windows Media Player MP3 file with my pod cast on it. The file uploaded and I copied the link from the upload tab when the upload was complete. I then pasted the link into my blog. I tried over and over to get the Lame converter to work, but with no luck. After all the trouble I had been having I used what worked. I hope this doesn’t count against me. This assignment would be appropriate for all NETS standards.
Audacity Podcast – My Music Bibliography
Track 1: Introduction audio clip
Track 2: Ray Charles - What’d I Say
Track 3: Trini Lopez - If I Had A Hammer
Track 4: Audio clip
Track 5: Tom Jones - It’s Not Unusual
Track 6: Audio Clip
Track 7: The Jackson 5 - Got to Be There
Track 8: The Stylistics - Betcha By Golly Wow
Track 9: Audio Clip - split track with Echo effect
Track 10: Pink Floyd - Breathe
Track 11: Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
Track 12: Audio
Track 13: The Indigo Girls - Closer to Fine
Track 14: REM - Find the River
Track 15: Audio mixed with Yanni - In the Morning Light
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