Chapter 5Edit Your Podcast

You’ve successfully recorded your podcast—congratulations! That is an accomplishment right there, but don’t make the mistake of thinking that you’re finished and your podcast is ready to release onto the Net. No, you still have some work ahead of you. You need to clean up your recording and edit it to make sure that it’s as close to matching your vision as possible. In this chapter, we walk through some of the most common editing tasks that you will want to perform with Audacity.

Opening the File with Audacity

If you just finished recording your podcast with Audacity, it’s obvious which file you’re going to edit, so it’s unnecessary to open it. If you took a break after recording your podcast, however, and you now want ...

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