Audio recordings - Any audio gurus out there?
Hi everyone. The SIG is slowly but surely venturing into the brave new world of technologies, and has run into a few snags along the way. We have this great new blog-driven Web site and Newsletter, and we have started holding quarterly membership meetings, with an audio recording of those meetings.
Unfortunately, we have run into some technical difficulties with our audio recording. We received a WAV file, which is over 60 MB in size, and are having difficulties posting it to our Web site. Additionally, it would be really nice to cut out the up-front welcome, introductions, and ramblings and just focus on the really interesting part of the technical program. 
Doubly unfortunately, I have zero experience at working with audio recordings. I knew to request one, and I have it, but I am stuck with how to best edit, manage, and deliver it to you our members. So, I am sending up a flare, calling all audio gurus to step forward and help us get past these technical difficulties and provide the audio recording of our April 2007 membership meeting to all of our members.
Any takers?
Henry J. Wicko II said,
May 7, 2007 at 8:22 pm
Michelle,
There is an open source audio program named Audacity. You can download Audacity from the following SourceForge location: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/windows. If you want to output your .wav files in .mp3 format you will need the LAME file. The instructions for downloading and installing that file (and other stuff) is on the lnk provided above.
I have used very very quickly to record audio on my pc and it works just fine. On first look at the documentation, there are basic instructions on how to edit audio files. Audacity’s documentation page is at: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/documentation.
I’d say I help, but I am pretty busy these days, but have come across this free tool for editing .mp3s and such.
HTH
Henry
Harry Miller said,
May 8, 2007 at 10:33 am
I do multimedia content editing at work (and as a hobby :-)). I could help you out if you haven’t found anyone else.
mcorbin said,
May 8, 2007 at 12:09 pm
Harry, that is fantastic news! Please send me an e-mail (corbinm@us.ibm.com), and we’ll coordinate off-blog.