Podcasting with music tracks weaved in.

[EruditeVixen]

Here's the deal, I have a 94 minute podcast and a 3.41 minute song. I want to take bits of that song, and put it in between segments of my podcast, but when I try to put the two together, one speeds up or the other slows down.

WTF?

[kozikowski]

<<<I have a 94 minute podcast>>>

You have a podcast, or you created a podcast in Audacity?

<<<a 3.41 minute song.>>>

Where did that come from? The two sound standards are too far apart for Audacity to pull them back together for editing. I would guess the music is in a format that Audacity doesn't fully recognize. That's pretty common.

Load the music on a timeline and export it in the same format that the show was recorded. Then it should drop right into Audacity. Many people in Windows use Super to do sound standard conversions. Audacity isn't a very good converter although you can force it to in a pinch.

This covers it in a roundabout way.

http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 11&t=10190

Koz

[EruditeVixen]

Thanks! I will try that.

I recorded the podcast on a different program. I'll try to convert the audio to something else.

[kozikowski]

WAV format, 16-bit, 44100 is the music CD technical standard. It's very common, reasonably robust and easily converts into anything else -- like MP3 for your podcast.

It's good not to hit MP3 format before your finish production. MP3 is a delivery format only and causes sound damage -- multiple times if you go in and out multiple times and Audacity will not edit MP3 without conversion.

Koz