Session 16: Audacity

Readings:

Mini-Lecutres:

• Audio Terms
• Audio Editing Basics
• Sound Examples

In-Class Exercise: Merge audio files

Using Audacity to edit two mp3 flies into one.

In-Class Exercise: Capture a CD track

1. Launch iTunes and insert your CD
2. Edit > Preferences > Advanced, "Importing" tab
1. Note the current setting for "Import using" -  and change it back after you finish
2. Importing using: WAV encoder
3. Custom settings: 22.050 kHz, 16 bit, Mono
3. Drag the track you want from the CD under "Devices" to "Library"
4. Find the audio file in the iTunes music folder
   (see Edit > Preferences > Advanced, "General" tab ... and do NOT change this setting
5. Reset the import format you changed in step 2
   (if you don't know what it was, use AAC, high quality)

OR ...

1. Launch Winamp and insert your CD
2. Options > Preferences
1. Select General Preferences: CD Ripping
2. Click the "Encoder" tab and set the format to WAV
   Under "WAV output options" check "Convert to Format" then click 
   The "[...]" button to the right and set the attributes to "22.050 kHz, 16 bit, Mono"
3. Click the "Output File Settings" tab to set the destination
3. View > Media Library
4. Under "Rip and Burn" click the CD
5. Select your track
6. Rip > Rip Selected Tracks ( at the bottom of the window)

1. Save a CD track as an audio file or download an MP3 from GarageBand.com.
2. Use Audacity to edit the audio file and save it as an MP3
   • Edit > Preferences, "File Formats" tab - set Bit Rate to 32 (at the bottom)
   • File > Open - import the MP3 file
   • Shorten the length (maybe 5 - 12 seconds)
   • Incorporate a short fade-in and fade-out
   • File > Export to MP3
3. Optional - try to send the ringtone to your phone.
4. Create a new FLA file with a button that plays the ringtone.
   Suggestion - place the ringtone in a movieclip with a stop script in the last frame.
5. If you have time, add a second or third ringtone.
6. Save and compact the FLA, then submit the FLA file

Note: there is  helpful information at the Audacity wiki.

Project Work: Begin Podcast

• Begin to work on the podcast project.