MP3GAin finding volume of your MP3 files
hello everybody in this little video i'm
going to describe a marvelous tool for determining
the actual volume of your MP3 files
before up loading them
welcome to another help video for LibriVox recorders
this is PC Phil Chenevert
with a video showing an easy way of determining
the volume level of your MP3 recordings
well that is if you're using windows
uh... it doesn't seem to work with mac
But this neat program called
p MP3 Gain
will tell you the volume level of your MP3
recordings and it will give you a recommendation
of the amount to increase or decrease
the volume to achieve the uh... desired eighty-nine
decibels
now the volume of
our recordings can vary greatly
this is a picture I took a three different
recordings I made
the top one is very puny and weak because
the waves are very small... they hover around
that middle line
one looks like it's way too high, in fact
they even have a lot of clipping right
here and here
and the last one looks like it we had normal
recording for me
well we'll check it out in a minure.
The volume that libriVox likes us to
have when we upload files is 89 decibels
or at least something
close to it let's say within four decibels
of that
anywhere from eighty six to ninety three is
acceptable I've been told
but even that isn't set in stone. eighty-nine
just gives us something to shoot at
so how do you do it: well I've recorded this particular
audio (an MP3)with audacity
and i'm going to drag it into the box,
We're going to cover this first:
first thing it tells me is that
our normal volume is 89.3
three this can be changed
it tells me the volume, right here
.. the volume is 71.7
and it tells me it's recommended a track gain of 18.1. do not
use Track Gain. This will automatically
adjust certain things inside of your recording
we don't
want to use that
Rather, to adjust this thing we're going to open up
that file in whatever editing program you
you
I use
audacity
now this is my little anemic file apparently
I will select the whole file go to
:02:36.519,0:02:38.089
Effect
then amplify
and it asks me how much to amplify
Now when you open up Audcaity, the Amplify dialog box will
will tell you the absolute
maximum that you can amplify
without clipping
Now in this case it is 18.2 ..I'm just
gonna change that two 18.1
and this means it's going to come within
one tenthth of a decibel
of clipping but it won't actually clip
click ok
now you may be able to see that this file
is much bigger
now if you were doing this for LibraVox
or if i was doing and i would export it
one more time
using the exact same file name that i used
before
which is whatever it is "low volume one"
save it in the same place
clear
the thing an see if i can drag it in here
and do it if i can't ..well it's gonna give me problems
OK, Analyze it ..AH!
i have now
increased the level to 89.3 which is
very close and very acceptable
so at that point i could
export this or upload it to LibriVox and
it would be fine
(humming)
OK, let's clear this and load another one: I call
call this
normal volume
eighty nine point one that's pretty darn close
in this case
i wouldn't do anything to it but upload
the file The next one I called "high volume"
becuse
it's kinda high volume
MP3Gain analyzes it and tells me it's 95.7decibels
let's see if i can amplify that again
95.7
(this is a little tool i think clled "magnifying
glass")
It is recommending a negative -6.0
that means it's necessary to go back and
reduce it, so that's what we're going to do
so i will open up this file in
audacity
selected it. Once again go to Effect>
amplify
and i'm gonna type in
-6
and let's see what it's going to happen here
well that certainly did reduce it that's
a nice pretty file now. Once again i'll do
the same thing i will
exported using the same name that i used before
because it's been modified
and let's see if it gets me to... track analysis
89.2
89.2
So what it recommends
will come pretty close. Now Track Gain or
negative is only in steps of one point five
decibels
however you don't have to use what they are recommending
if you're uh... volume here is showing 80
and they have something else you can you can
simply increase it by 9
and you'll come up to 89. you can
use your own estimation on these things
now these are pretty normal files but what
happens if you have clipping
or peaks?
let's see if this one works here
one of the problems with these files
with some files is that they have clipping
now clipping
is when your volume is so loud that it
exceeds the uh... the program's capability
to record it and so you lose
the bits at the top or at the bottom
you will notic that this particular farm has...
yes clipping
and the whole track has clipping in it
So MP3Gain is recommending to gain 4.5
this is the actual file
and you can see that some of my waveforms
here go
go pretty high
i'm just zooming in, that's
all
so we can see and this one here is the one
that's
that's clipping
and uh... an interesting point or aside
is, if you have trouble with a lot of clipping
you can go to View
and there is a little thing here "Show Clipping" clipping
This means as your are recording and
you have a clip, it will pop up in red
you can immediately stop and re-record that
but let's assume that you don't normally have
trouble
(shrink this back down)
if we try to amplify this file it would
not allow us to amplify it
see, it says zero, zero. you can't amplify
this file at all
So, how can we do this? well this is how i do it
i would zoom in on that particular file there
wherever it is ... here it is right here
highlight it and
uh... negative amplify it ...let's say a -4 negative four
That shrinks it right on down them
now if i may have lost may have
lost a little bit of the peaks up there
here's another one that we want to de-amplify
i'm going to zoom in going to
zoom in; and
choose that go to effect amplify and negative
uh...-3
I'm just choosing these numbers because that's about
what i would look for
next I will look at the entire file by clicking
up here
Whoops! I still have one right here
tricky tricky Phil
tricky tricky
Effect > amplify
negative
-4 (I like -4)
once again I'll go here so I can put my entire
uh... track into one thing i can see ... that's
pretty good
now let's see how much i can amplify it
i can amplify by four
and i think they recommended four so let's
try it
i still have these clicks but we'll see
see what happens here
i'm going to
export it
as "peaks" same file name
Clear it and let's see if I drop "peaks" in here what it will dowill
do track analysis
88.1 ! one
now it shows that I would still have
a clip
it says that if you amplify by 1.5 i would still havbe clip, well I don't
want to amplify any more and that is justfine with me
and if you wanna know what decibels are
well, you can ask somebody else because i'm not sure
i do know that the format used in in MP3Gain
is SPF or something it means
how does a human ear hear the sound how
loud does that sound to the human ear
uh... so it's sort of a different formula
but
it works very well
disclaimer remember this is all my opinion
and may or may not represent the views of
those people who actually know what they're
doing
uh... warranty is void if used while emersed in buttermilk
<br><br>
thank you very much
Cassette Tape to USB Converter Review | EpicReviewGuys CC
- Hi! It's Parris from Epic Review Guys,
and if you don't know what these are,
this video's probably not for you,
but if you're like me and in the corner
of a closet of your house you've got a box
full of cassette tapes, but you don't
even own a cassette player anymore,
well, this little guy
claims that it can take
what's on the tapes, digitize it,
and bring it into the modern age.
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This device by AGPtEK is like a Walkman,
if you remember those, a little,
portable cassette player.
Inside of it though there
are some computer chips,
basically a sound card that
takes the analog sound,
converts it to digital,
and then sends it out
through a USB cable,
so you can plug it into your computer,
record those files, and
then play them anywhere.
This goes for about 20 dollars.
I'll put a link to it
down below this video.
Let me show you what you get in the box.
If you remember the old Walkman,
this really looks like a Walkman.
Just a couple buttons on the top,
your USB cable, headphones as well,
so you can actually listen to your music.
Also included is a tiny little CD.
This has the software that you install
on your computer and then
a little instruction book
that I need reading glasses to read.
Now, I've got maybe 300
cassette tapes in that bin.
I brought a few of them
up here on the table,
and there is no way to record
them faster than they play
which means a one-hour tape
takes one hour to record.
You gotta go back and
split it into two songs.
this one starts here; this one ends here.
You've got to take the file;
you've got to give it the name.
If you want it to work
in iTunes or something,
you've got to put in all
the identifying information
of the name of the song, the
artist, the genre, the album.
It's a lot of work,
so I've got a few of my
songs, my tapes from the 80s,
Simon and Garfunkel,
Erasure, Gordon Lightfoot,
Ray Charles, but these
commercially produces tapes,
I can buy again.
I can buy the mp3s of them
or I could buy a CD of them,
or I can just sign up to Spotify or to
the Google Play Music,
eight dollars a month,
and listen to them all whenever I want
without having to buy them,
so these commercial tapes I'm really not
interested in going through
the time and effort,
the hundreds of hours to get them
into mp3 format on the computer.
The ones I'm interested in,
are these recorded tapes
that I did myself.
The ones I'd really
like to recover include
this one from 1987.
I was in air-traffic control
school in Oklahoma City.
Here's the device with the door open
where you put the cassette tapes in.
Play, rewind, it also has
a button on top that will
auto-switch the tape to
play in the other direction
which is handy if you don't want
to have to come and flip the tape over.
On the end we've got the volume control,
the USB port and the headphone jack.
I put in my air-traffic control lab tape
from January 30th, 1987.
Now going to hook this up to the computer,
so it installs the drivers,
and then install the software.
I have Windows 8 on my laptop
which is a Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro,
but anything from XP on
up should automatically
install the drivers, so I
think it's a little more work
if you're on the Mac side.
You just plug in the
device in the USB port,
and you should get some
sounds going on here
as it installs the
driver to make this work.
Had to use my external CD drive
to take a look at this little disc.
All that's on here is an old copy
of the Audacity recording software that
I actually need to get a newer version
to work with Windows 8 anyway.
Also, the drivers, which
automatically install
and a copy of the manual,
which at least would be
easier to read than
the tiny print on here.
I downloaded and installed
Audacity version 2.0.5.
It's about a minute and a
half to go through the steps.
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The set up is pretty easy.
It's just next, next, I agree.
Decided to make sure there's actually
some audio on that tape that's
almost 30 years old now.
Here's the little panel that you pop off.
This gives you access to put
in the two double a batteries,
then I should be able to
play the sound through this,
at least through the
headphones that they give me.
Well, amazingly, after 30 years,
there's still pretty
good audio on this tape.
Now, I was able to listen with
the little earbuds included,
but I remembered I have the
As Seen On TV Microboom,
which I can plug an audio source into,
and you'll be able to hear this.
Now, the first person
speaking is my partner
who's calling in on the radio,
acting as different
airplanes, and other centers
asking for clearance.
- [Voiceover] Williams Center
- [Voiceover] McAllister
Tower request clearance.
November five one zero three eight
to the Wichita Airport.
- [Voiceover] Active
runway, advise any changes
- [Voiceover] Active runway, three six
- [Voiceover] Stand by
- Stand by!
That's me while I tried to figure out
where all the different planes were
and where these planes could go through.
I wasn't particularly good
at air-traffic control,
so be glad I didn't choose that
as my full-time profession.
I came over here, rewound it a little bit,
and pressed play.
Came here in the Audacity
software and hit record,
and as you can see, I've got something.
Now when I go to play it back...
- [Voiceover] Active
runway, advise any changes.
- [Voiceover] Active runway three six
- [Voiceover] Stand by.
- Stand by.
So, now, I've got to export
this as a sound file,
an mp3 or some type of digital file,
and then I can send it to somebody.
I can play it on any of
my electronic devices.
I can burn it to a CD, play it in the car
if that's where I want to hear it.
Here's the file as an mp3.
I've saved it as air
traffic in my documents.
I could email this to someone.
They can listen to it.
I can pull it into iTunes
or Google Play Music.
It won't deteriorate anymore
now that it's been digitized,
and I can listen to it whenever I like.
- [Voiceover] Active
runway, advise any changes.
- [Voiceover] Active runway three six.
- [Voiceover] Stand by.
- And I found the tape
that I sent to my family
after I'd been in Japan for a few months
and wanted to share the
experience with them.
It goes along with the photo album.
Here's a little of it.
- [Voiceover] Hello again from the streets
of downtown Tokyo.
We're talking to you from
(mumbles) town called Ikebukuro.
On this first one, we're going to take you
through where we went when
we first arrived here.
Perhaps you can hear the
traffic in the background.
- And I just got done
listening to the tape
of my brother, sister and
myself singing Stand By Me
at a Karaoke bar in
Tokyo after a few drinks,
and boy I kind of wish
the fidelity of this tape
had been reduced over 30 years,
cause we sound bad as ever.
Sorry I can't play it for
you since it's Youtube.
So, if you're looking to
take a trip down memory lane,
this AGPtEK device is
pretty good, lets you listen
to your cassette tapes
and also record them
onto your computer, so
you'll have them forever.
They won't deteriorate any further.
Only 20 bucks, again we have a link
to it down below if you'd
like to check it out.
So, I've got my next few
weekends cut out for me
sorting through all of
this, deciding what to keep,
putting it on the computer, labeling it,
but at least then it's done,
and I'll have it forever.
Then the question is, what
am I going to do with these?
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Monday, January 11, 2016
Audacity Tutorial 01 - Installation, Import Video, and Export to MP3 | Free Audio Editing - Use iTunes to Convert Wav Files to MP3 and Add ID3 Tags to Your Podcast
Audacity Tutorial 01 - Installation, Import Video, and Export to MP3 | Free Audio Editing
<br><br>
Here's a simple video about downloading and
installing Audacity to your computer and how
to enable the ability to save your projects
as MP3 files.
To make things easier, I have links for all
of the URLs that we talk about
below this video.
First, I'm just going to google the word "Audacity"
in my web browser.
At the top, there's the Audacity homepage
at audacity.sourceforge.net.
Click on it and then click on the "All Audacity
Downloads" link.
Next, choose the operating system that you're
running.
I'm using Windows, so I'll click on "Audacity
for Windows."
So now we're on the main download page.
We want to download the installer for the
latest version of Audacity, but there's other
things we want to download from this page
later so we're going to right-click the "Audacity
installer" link and click
"Open link in a new tab."
I'll choose "Save File" and let Audacity download.
While it's downloading, let's go back to the
Audacity Download page and download
the "LAME MP3 encoder."
This file will us export our audio projects
in Audacity to MP3 files.
This is extremely important since programs
like VideoMakerFX and Videoscribe currently
only allow you to import songs and voiceovers
in the MP3 file format.
From the downloads page, click on "LAME MP3
encoder."
This page shows things like where it's downloading
to and how to fix things if it doesn't work,
but we just want to download it so click on
the "LAME download page" link.
We want the exe file for easy installation,
so let's download the "Lame for Windows.exe" file.
Also, download the "FFmpeg Binary" file below
the LAME download links.
This file will let us import and edit the
audio in video files directly in Audacity!
So now we have three files downloaded: The
Audacity program file, the LAME MP3 file,
and the FFmpeg file.
Run the Audacity install file and install
it to its default location.
Next, run the LAME MP3 setup, which will install
into its own folder, and click "Finish".
And finally, run the FFmpeg setup and install
it.
And that's it!
Open Audacity either through the Start Menu
or your Desktop shortcut and you're
ready to start using Audacity!
Let's test it out to make sure everything
working correctly.
Go to File > Open and open either a video
file or an audio file on your computer.
I'm just going to use the sample video that
came with my computer.
As you can see, it imported the audio directly
in Audacity!
Next, go to File > Export Audio.
If "MP3 Files" shows up as a file type that
you can save to, then you're set.
You can click on the Options button and set
it to Constant 320 kbps, Stereo to make sure
that your audio exports to the best quality
possible.
Next, click "Ok" to save your changes, and
click on "Save" to save the audio as
a MP3 file.
If everything worked like it did on my screen,
then you're good to go!
Being able to import your video's audio means
that you don't have to convert your video
yourself using a program like Any Video Converter.
You can simply make your changes, like noise
reduction, normalization, and compression,
save it to an audio file, and import the new
file straight into your video editing software!
We'll go through the different effects that
you can do in Audacity later.
For now, we'll focus on recording and editing
a voiceover to get it ready for when you start
working on your video.
This is a good time to close Audacity and
plug in your microphone or headset since we'll
be going over how to setup Audacity to record
your audio in the next video.
We'll even create a short audio track that
we'll clean up in Audacity in a later video.
So stay tuned!
Well, I hope you enjoyed this video!
Check out all of my tutorial sets and more at VideoHelp.org.
The tutorials are all in high definition 1080p
and have Closed Captioning and text versions available!
You can download the sample files that I create for each video
and ask me any questions you might have along the way!
It's the best place to reach me
and I hope to see you there!
Use iTunes to Convert Wav Files to MP3 and Add ID3 Tags to Your Podcast
This one is for all you budding podcasters
out there. I’ve got on my She Podcasts T-shirt.
I want to teach you how to convert your raw
.wav file into .mp3 and add your ID3 tags.
I know, you got to be a podcaster to know
what all that means.
Now in order to convert our wav files into
mp3 using iTunes we have to do the initial
setup in our preferences. So you’ll look
for the preferences area at your menu bar
on the top.
Of course, if you’re on the Mac it will
be under the iTunes menu. But if you’re
on PC I believe it will be under the file
menu, but just look for preferences. And this
is the important piece right here, the ‘import
settings’. Now, the good thing is once we
set the import settings, we never have to
change it. But, its important that we get
it setup properly so that our files will be
at the proper bit rate and file type.
So, click on your import settings and you’ll
choose MP3 encoder. You also want to use custom
settings. Now lets go into what those custom
settings are. I’ve decided to use stereo
bit rate of 96 kbps but you can use 128. But
what’s very important is not to check off
the variable bit rate and coding.
Now this has caused some controversy in the
podcasting sphere, because some people are
using that setting. But when they use that
setting there is no guarantee that people
using older versions of the iOS software on
their phones or they have a different type
of phone and haven’t upgraded their software
they are going to have playback issues.
So it doesn’t help you to have Variable
bit rate on at all so just don’t check the
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box. Now, next you always want to have you’re
sample rate at 44.100 kHz. Channels can be
‘Stereo’ and you’re Stereo Mode can
be joint stereo. Then you’ll want smart
encoding and filter frequencies below 10 Hz.
Okay so make sure all of your settings are
as you see here. The only thing you can deviate
on is you don’t have to have 96 kbps it
can be 128 kbps. But 96 is perfectly fine.
Just click okay and now you’re all done.
So next you’re going to have your .wav file
where you’ve recorded your podcast. Now,
normally if you’re using Audacity that’s
going to generate a .wav file. There is also
a few other recorders that could be used but
I’m going to think that most people are
using Audacity since its free and absolutely
functional.
Then you are going to navigate to that file
on your computer. Using the ‘Add to Library’
function. Okay just go ahead and select that
.wav file from your computer. It should take
just a few seconds to upload and as soon as
it does you are going to right-click on that
file. And a pop-up window will show up and
you’ll just choose Create .MP3 file. That’s
why ‘ so critical that we did that step
at the beginning for importing files. Now
we are going to add our ID3 tags our ID3 tags
are important in iTunes because this is what
people will see when they are searching for
your podcast. So each file, every episode
needs to have ID3 tags, its pretty critical.
So you are going to go to that file that you
just converted and click on get info. And
this is the menu that will appear.
And here is where you are going to add all
of the relevant information for your episode.
Of course your name of your episode, try to
have some keywords in the name of the episode.
But make sure its descriptive of what the
content is, that you actually talked about.
Your artist name, now, some people like to
add some things onto their artist names. Like
I could use, “Ileane Smith, Blogger.â€
But most of the time I just use Ileane Smith.
Now the ‘Album Name’ would be the name
of the podcast. You could add the year, you
could add track numbers if you want. But in
my case I don’t number them. It’s not
mandatory. And if you have any comments you
want to put that there as well.
Next you’ll go over to the artwork tab.
And this is where you’ll upload the episode
artwork. This is not the cover art for your
podcast, but its just the episode artwork,
probably the same artwork that you’re going
to use in the blog post or your show notes.
And just go ahead and upload that file.
And that’s it! You have just converted your
.WAV file to an .MP3 file and added your ID3
tags.
So now, your .WAV is an .MP3 with your ID3
tags. You’re ready to upload to Libsyn.
Talk to you guys soon. It’s Ileane, from
the Ms. Ileane Speaks podcast. Talk to you
soon Peace!
<br><br>
Here's a simple video about downloading and
installing Audacity to your computer and how
to enable the ability to save your projects
as MP3 files.
To make things easier, I have links for all
of the URLs that we talk about
below this video.
First, I'm just going to google the word "Audacity"
in my web browser.
At the top, there's the Audacity homepage
at audacity.sourceforge.net.
Click on it and then click on the "All Audacity
Downloads" link.
Next, choose the operating system that you're
running.
I'm using Windows, so I'll click on "Audacity
for Windows."
So now we're on the main download page.
We want to download the installer for the
latest version of Audacity, but there's other
things we want to download from this page
later so we're going to right-click the "Audacity
installer" link and click
"Open link in a new tab."
I'll choose "Save File" and let Audacity download.
While it's downloading, let's go back to the
Audacity Download page and download
the "LAME MP3 encoder."
This file will us export our audio projects
in Audacity to MP3 files.
This is extremely important since programs
like VideoMakerFX and Videoscribe currently
only allow you to import songs and voiceovers
in the MP3 file format.
From the downloads page, click on "LAME MP3
encoder."
This page shows things like where it's downloading
to and how to fix things if it doesn't work,
but we just want to download it so click on
the "LAME download page" link.
We want the exe file for easy installation,
so let's download the "Lame for Windows.exe" file.
Also, download the "FFmpeg Binary" file below
the LAME download links.
This file will let us import and edit the
audio in video files directly in Audacity!
So now we have three files downloaded: The
Audacity program file, the LAME MP3 file,
and the FFmpeg file.
Run the Audacity install file and install
it to its default location.
Next, run the LAME MP3 setup, which will install
into its own folder, and click "Finish".
And finally, run the FFmpeg setup and install
it.
And that's it!
Open Audacity either through the Start Menu
or your Desktop shortcut and you're
ready to start using Audacity!
Let's test it out to make sure everything
working correctly.
Go to File > Open and open either a video
file or an audio file on your computer.
I'm just going to use the sample video that
came with my computer.
As you can see, it imported the audio directly
in Audacity!
Next, go to File > Export Audio.
If "MP3 Files" shows up as a file type that
you can save to, then you're set.
You can click on the Options button and set
it to Constant 320 kbps, Stereo to make sure
that your audio exports to the best quality
possible.
Next, click "Ok" to save your changes, and
click on "Save" to save the audio as
a MP3 file.
If everything worked like it did on my screen,
then you're good to go!
Being able to import your video's audio means
that you don't have to convert your video
yourself using a program like Any Video Converter.
You can simply make your changes, like noise
reduction, normalization, and compression,
save it to an audio file, and import the new
file straight into your video editing software!
We'll go through the different effects that
you can do in Audacity later.
For now, we'll focus on recording and editing
a voiceover to get it ready for when you start
working on your video.
This is a good time to close Audacity and
plug in your microphone or headset since we'll
be going over how to setup Audacity to record
your audio in the next video.
We'll even create a short audio track that
we'll clean up in Audacity in a later video.
So stay tuned!
Well, I hope you enjoyed this video!
Check out all of my tutorial sets and more at VideoHelp.org.
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Use iTunes to Convert Wav Files to MP3 and Add ID3 Tags to Your Podcast
This one is for all you budding podcasters
out there. I’ve got on my She Podcasts T-shirt.
I want to teach you how to convert your raw
.wav file into .mp3 and add your ID3 tags.
I know, you got to be a podcaster to know
what all that means.
Now in order to convert our wav files into
mp3 using iTunes we have to do the initial
setup in our preferences. So you’ll look
for the preferences area at your menu bar
on the top.
Of course, if you’re on the Mac it will
be under the iTunes menu. But if you’re
on PC I believe it will be under the file
menu, but just look for preferences. And this
is the important piece right here, the ‘import
settings’. Now, the good thing is once we
set the import settings, we never have to
change it. But, its important that we get
it setup properly so that our files will be
at the proper bit rate and file type.
So, click on your import settings and you’ll
choose MP3 encoder. You also want to use custom
settings. Now lets go into what those custom
settings are. I’ve decided to use stereo
bit rate of 96 kbps but you can use 128. But
what’s very important is not to check off
the variable bit rate and coding.
Now this has caused some controversy in the
podcasting sphere, because some people are
using that setting. But when they use that
setting there is no guarantee that people
using older versions of the iOS software on
their phones or they have a different type
of phone and haven’t upgraded their software
they are going to have playback issues.
So it doesn’t help you to have Variable
bit rate on at all so just don’t check the
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box. Now, next you always want to have you’re
sample rate at 44.100 kHz. Channels can be
‘Stereo’ and you’re Stereo Mode can
be joint stereo. Then you’ll want smart
encoding and filter frequencies below 10 Hz.
Okay so make sure all of your settings are
as you see here. The only thing you can deviate
on is you don’t have to have 96 kbps it
can be 128 kbps. But 96 is perfectly fine.
Just click okay and now you’re all done.
So next you’re going to have your .wav file
where you’ve recorded your podcast. Now,
normally if you’re using Audacity that’s
going to generate a .wav file. There is also
a few other recorders that could be used but
I’m going to think that most people are
using Audacity since its free and absolutely
functional.
Then you are going to navigate to that file
on your computer. Using the ‘Add to Library’
function. Okay just go ahead and select that
.wav file from your computer. It should take
just a few seconds to upload and as soon as
it does you are going to right-click on that
file. And a pop-up window will show up and
you’ll just choose Create .MP3 file. That’s
why ‘ so critical that we did that step
at the beginning for importing files. Now
we are going to add our ID3 tags our ID3 tags
are important in iTunes because this is what
people will see when they are searching for
your podcast. So each file, every episode
needs to have ID3 tags, its pretty critical.
So you are going to go to that file that you
just converted and click on get info. And
this is the menu that will appear.
And here is where you are going to add all
of the relevant information for your episode.
Of course your name of your episode, try to
have some keywords in the name of the episode.
But make sure its descriptive of what the
content is, that you actually talked about.
Your artist name, now, some people like to
add some things onto their artist names. Like
I could use, “Ileane Smith, Blogger.â€
But most of the time I just use Ileane Smith.
Now the ‘Album Name’ would be the name
of the podcast. You could add the year, you
could add track numbers if you want. But in
my case I don’t number them. It’s not
mandatory. And if you have any comments you
want to put that there as well.
Next you’ll go over to the artwork tab.
And this is where you’ll upload the episode
artwork. This is not the cover art for your
podcast, but its just the episode artwork,
probably the same artwork that you’re going
to use in the blog post or your show notes.
And just go ahead and upload that file.
And that’s it! You have just converted your
.WAV file to an .MP3 file and added your ID3
tags.
So now, your .WAV is an .MP3 with your ID3
tags. You’re ready to upload to Libsyn.
Talk to you guys soon. It’s Ileane, from
the Ms. Ileane Speaks podcast. Talk to you
soon Peace!
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