Podcasting at St. John’s: Downloading Audacity software

Podcasting at St. John’s:Downloading Audacity software Kathryn Shaughnessy Instructional Services Librarian

Podcasting at St. John’s:Downloading Audacity software This demonstration will guide you through downloading 2 free applications: • Audacity (the podcast recording software) • LAME (the software that converts the Audacity podcast file into an mp3 file)

Podcasting at St. John’s:Downloading Audacity software Open your browser to http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ and click on Download Audacity 1.2.4b for Microsoft Windows

Podcasting at St. John’s:Downloading Audacity software From this page, click in the Recommended “Audacity” link …

Podcasting at St. John’s:Downloading Audacity software From this page, scroll down and click on the Phoenix AZ download

Podcasting at St. John’s:Downloading Audacity software The program will alert you (at the top of the webpage) that “Your download should begin shortly” • If the download initiates, a “pop-up”/dialog box will ask you whether you want to “run” or “save” the file, Click RUN • If the program does not start to download, check whether a pop-up blocker is interfering; if not, try http://internap.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/audacity/audacity-win-1.2.4b.exe or choose a different mirror

Podcasting at St. John’s:Downloading Audacity software After running the Audacity .exe file, a “SetUp Wizard” interface will appear on your screen...Click the “Next > ” button

Podcasting at St. John’s:Downloading Audacity software Read/Accept the agreement, click on the Accept radio button ... then Click the “Next > ” button;

Podcasting at St. John’s:Downloading Audacity software Read the next Information screen and click the “Next > ” button again

Podcasting at St. John’s:Downloading Audacity software The wizard suggests/creates a folder called “Audacity” in your Programs folder [note where this folder is, since you will need to save one of the LAME files in the same folder later] click “Next >”

Podcasting at St. John’s:Downloading Audacity software A desktop icon is a good idea, click the “Next > ” button again

Podcasting at St. John’s:Downloading Audacity software The program is ready to install on your computer and click “Install”

Podcasting at St. John’s:Downloading Audacity software When installation is complete, click Finish; this completes the installation …

Podcasting at St. John’s:Downloading Audacity software … and also starts the Audacity program, which looks like this

Podcasting at St. John’s:Downloading Audacity software , LAME encoder Next, to download the LAME application: Open or Return to the Audacity webpage http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/windows and click on LAME MP3 encoder under the optional Downloads section

Podcasting at St. John’s:Downloading Audacity software, LAME encoder and click on theLAME download page…& follow the directions…

Podcasting at St. John’s:Downloading Audacity software, LAME encoder Choose one from any of the links (e.g.: Peter Yang):

Podcasting at St. John’s:Downloading Audacity software, LAME encoder A Download file menu will show up, Choose SAVE,

Podcasting at St. John’s:Downloading Audacity software, LAME encoder Save the zip file to your desktop (click desktop icon on left, then click Save)

Podcasting at St. John’s:Downloading Audacity software, LAME encoder When finished downloading, Click “Open Folder”

Podcasting at St. John’s:Downloading Audacity software, LAME encoder When finished downloading, Click “Open Folder” or double-click on the “lame-3.96.1” zipped-folder on the desktop. Keep the LAME folder open, and in a separate window, open the Audacity folder (My Computer  C-Drive  Program Files  Audacity)

Podcasting at St. John’s:Downloading Audacity software, LAME encoder In the LAME Folder, Right-click on the lame.enc.dll file and choose copy

Podcasting at St. John’s:Downloading Audacity software, LAME encoder Click over to the Audacity Folder, right-click in blank area and choose Paste.

Podcasting at St. John’s:Downloading Audacity software We are nearly there…you can safely close all of the windows, but keep the Audacity program window open – (or re-launch the program if you closed it already)

Podcasting at St. John’s:Downloading Audacity software It is advisable to set up 2 preferences in order to facilitate recording and saving manageable mp3 files: Go to File  Preferences

Podcasting at St. John’s:Downloading Audacity software Click on the Audio I/O tab: under Channels select 2 (Stereo)

Podcasting at St. John’s:Downloading Audacity software File  Preferences File Format tab: under Bit Rate select 64

Podcasting at St. John’s:Downloading Audacity software Now you are ready to start recording your podcast in Audacity, and you will be able to save it as reasonably good quality mp3 file. NOTE: The first time your Audacity program attempts to “export as mp3” it will prompt a search for the LAME file; since you already put it in the Audacity folder, it will find and associate the LAME file so that no future prompt will be necessary. Transom.org has some information on editing with Audacity (http://transom.org/tools/editing_mixing/200404.audacity.html ; Handout available) For a rough demo on recording/editing Audacity (approx. 7 mins): http://facpub.stjohns.edu/~shaughnk/Audacity_editing.htm

Podcasting at St. John’s:Downloading Audacity software Access the full article on Podcasting at St. John’s Libraries http://www.stjohns.edu/academics/libraries/podcast.sju Please contact me with thoughts/questions/clarifications: • Kathryn Shaughnessy, Shaughnk@stjohns.edu Instructional Services Lab St. John’s University (718) 990-1454

Podcasting at St. John’s: Downloading Audacity software