1. Skills: export.mp3 files, configure Audacity Concepts: metadata, fair use of patented material This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. Configure Audacity to export.mp3 files

2. Where does this topic fit? Internet concepts – Applications – Technology – Implications Internet skills – Application development – Content creation (audio) – User skills

3. Download and install Audacity Install Audacity

4. Export an MP3 file

5. First time.mp3 export

6. The LAME setup wizard

7. This is where it will put LAME on your disk Don’t change the default location.

8. The LAME setup wizard

9. If you forget where LAME is Edit > Preferences

10. Optionally enter metadata

11. Metadata Audio data Mp3 file

12. Lame Ain't an MP3 Encoder

13. Summary

14. Self-study questions 1.What are some of the metadata fields that would be stored with a file containing a digital photograph? 2.Mp3 is a compressed file format – how do you set the degree of compression in Audacity? 3.How did you find the answer to the previous question? In what other ways might you have found the answer? 4.If, after configuring Audacity to find the LAME compression library, you renamed the library file, what would happen?

15. Resources Download lame.dll, an mp3 encoder for Audacity: http://lame1.buanzo.com.ar/Lame_v3.99.3_for_Windows.exe LAME download manual page: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/FAQ:Installation_and_Plug- Ins#How_do_I_download_and_install_the_LAME_MP3_encoder.3F Home of the LAME project: http://lame.sourceforge.net/index.php Why Mike Cheng started the LAME project: http://lame.sourceforge.net/rationale.php FFMpeg, a WMA encoder for Audacity (to export.wav files): http://manual.audacityteam.org/index.php?title=FAQ:Installation_and_ Plug-Ins#installffmpeg