Overview
Audacity is a free tool audio recording and editing tool that is used by PSU faculty and staff. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and other operating systems. If you are an administrator of your computer, it can be installed without the assistance of an ITS staff member.
Steps
To download Audacity – Part I
1) Use a web browser (ex.Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, etc.) and go to the URL address http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
2) Click on the link entitled “Download Audacity 1.2.6″ for Windows® 98/ME/2000/XP/Vista
(Note: At this time Audacity 1.2.6 is the recommend release for downloading)
3) A new window appears. Click on the link that is located in the sentence, Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/Vista: Audacity 1.2.6 installer (.exe file, 2.1 MB) – The latest version of the free Audacity audio editor.
4) A File Download – Security Warning dialog box appears. Click on the Save button and save the audacity-win-1.2.6.exe file to the Desktop of your computer
5) The Download complete dialog box appears. Click on the Run button
6) An Internet Explorer – Security dialog box appears. Click on Run, as this is a legitimate web site publisher
7) Audacity Install Wizard appears. Click the Next button and accept the terms of agreement.
Continue to click the Next button until the wizard is done, and then click the Finish button
To download Audacity – Part II
1) Use a web browser (ex.Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, etc.) and go to the URL address http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/windows
2) Under the Optional Downloads category, locate and click on the link LAME MP3 encoder – Allows Audacity to export MP3 files
For Windows:
3) Go to the LAME download page
4) Under “For Audacity on Windows”, left-click on the link “libmp3lame-win-3.98.2.zip” and save the zip folder to anywhere on your computer.
5) When you have finished downloading the ZIP folder, unzip it and save the file that it contains to My Documents in a new folder titled Audacity
6) The first time you use the “Export as MP3″ command, Audacity will ask you where lame_enc.dll is saved. Go find it in My Documents > Audacity > lame_enc.dll
For Mac OS 9 or X
3) Go to the LAME download page.
4)Click to download either “Lame Library v3.98.2 for Audacity on OSX.dmg” or “LameLib-Carbon.sit”, according to your operating system.
5) Double-click the .dmg to extract “Lame Library v3.98.2 for Audacity on OSX.pkg” to Finder, or use Stuffit to extract “LameLib” from the .sit (either of these may happen automatically).
6) Double-click the .pkg to install “libmp3lame.dylib” in /usr/local/lib/audacity, or save “LameLib” anywhere on your computer.
7) The first time you use the “Export as MP3″ command, Audacity will ask you where libmp3lame.dylib or LameLib is saved.
To record audio
1) Click on the Audacity icon to open the program
2) Click on File in the menu bar to drop down the file menu
3) Click on New to begin a new recording
4) Click on the Record button and talk into the microphone. Click the Stop button when done.
5) Click on File in the menu bar to drop down the file menu
6) Click on the Export as MP3 link
7) The Save As dialog box appears and use it to name your recording and save it to your computer
An Edit box appears, click OK
9) Click on File in the menu bar to drop down the file menu
10) Click on Close
11) At the Save Changes prompt, click on NO
12) Repeat steps 1-12 for each recording
