1. Free Music Editing Software A UDACITY

2. W HAT IS A UDACITY ?  Audacity is an audio editor.  It is free and can be downloaded from http://audacity.sourceforge.net/. http://audacity.sourceforge.net/  Audacity is cross-platform which means it will run on several operating systems including:  Max OS X;  Microsoft Windows; and  GNU/Linux. B Y M ARGARET L ION FOR P200

3. W HAT IS A UDACITY ? C ONTI …  Audacity can also be downloaded from IUware Online - http://iuware.indiana.edu/.http://iuware.indiana.edu/  It is available on STC computers across campus.  Audacity is the software you will use for audio editing in P200. B Y M ARGARET L ION FOR P200

4. O PEN A UDACITY  Click Start button  All Programs  Multimedia  Audacity 1.2.6 B Y M ARGARET L ION FOR P200

5. V IEW A UDACITY B Y M ARGARET L ION FOR P200 A.Editing Tools B.Audio Control Buttons C.Meter Toolbar D.Mixer Toolbar E.Edit Toolbar F.Timeline G.Audio Track AB C D E F G Information taken from Podcasting: The Basics

6. O PEN A F ILE I N A UDACITY  Click File, then Open.  Select the file you want.  Click Open in the Select one or more audio files… window.  Your file will open in Audacity, ready for editing. B Y M ARGARET L ION FOR P200

7. A UDACITY & F ILES T YPES B Y M ARGARET L ION FOR P200 Audacity creates files with the.aup extension. You will need to convert your.aup file to.mp3. You will use Audacity to convert the file into the.mp3 format.

8. A UDACITY ONLINE TUTORIALS  Sourceforge Tutorials - http://audacity.sourceforge.net/manual- 1.2/tutorials.html http://audacity.sourceforge.net/manual- 1.2/tutorials.html  Cut, Copy and Paste in Audacity - http://audacity.sourceforge.net/manual- 1.2/tutorial_ed_beginner2.html http://audacity.sourceforge.net/manual- 1.2/tutorial_ed_beginner2.html B Y M ARGARET L ION FOR P200

9. A UDACITY R ESOURCES  About Audacity - http://audacity.sourceforge.net/about/ http://audacity.sourceforge.net/about/  Audacity on Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audacity http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audacity  Class textbook B Y M ARGARET L ION FOR P200