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In today's show I walk you through the very basics of "editing" a audio track that has been recorded outside Audacity. Audacity can be found at <a href="https://audacity.sourceforge.net/">https://audacity.sourceforge.net/</a>
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<h3>Overview of Audacity</h3>
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<em>Audacity is a free, easy-to-use and multilingual audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems.</em>.
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<ul>
  <li>Menubar overview: <a href="https://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/menu_reference.html">https://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/menu_reference.html</a></li>
  <li>Toolbars overview: <a href="https://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/toolbars_overview.html">https://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/toolbars_overview.html</a></li>
  <li>Multi-Tool "<strong>*</strong>" (also F6): <a href="https://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/multi_tool.html">https://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/multi_tool.html</a></li>
  <li>Set Project Rate to 44100 Hz</li>
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<h3>Editing the audio</h3>
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The steps in this video include.
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  <li>File > Import > Your file</li>
  <li>Tracks > Stereo Track to Mono</li>
  <li>Effect > Amplify (Accept defaults)</li>
  <li>Delete audio: Highlight (click and drag) press Delete</li>
  <li>Undo: Ctrl + Z</li>
  <li><a href="intro.flac">Intro Clip</a></li>
  <li><a href="outro.flac">Outro Clip</a></li>
  <li>Move Track: (F6 Multitool) Ctrl - Click and drag</li>
  <li>Export the Track:
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    <li>Confirm that the Project Rate is set to <em>44100 Hz</em> (bottom left)</li>
    <li><em>File -> Export</em> and select <strong>FLAC File</strong></li>
    <li>Click <em>Options...</em> to reveal FLAC Export Setup</li>
    <li>Set <em>Level</em> to <strong>8 (best)</strong></li>
    <li>Set <em>Bit depth</em> to <strong>24</strong></li>
    <li>Artist Name: <em>Your name</em></li>
    <li>Track Title: <em>Your show title</em></li>
    <li>Album Title: <em>Hacker Public Radio</em><br />
    <img src="https://hackerpublicradio.org/images/contribute-audacity-export.png" alt="Audacity Export Settings" title="Audacity Screenshot of an Export" width="600"/>
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  </ul></li>
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When you are ready you can contact <strong>admin</strong><strong>@</strong><strong>hackerpublicradio.</strong><strong>org</strong> to get access to the FTP server.  For more technical information see the <a href="README.txt">README</a> file and the <a href="sample_shownotes.html">Sample Show notes</a> file.
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<a href="https://hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr1404.webm">https://hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr1404.webm</a><br />
<a href="https://hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr1404.mp4">https://hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr1404.mp4</a>
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