I got a cheap Olympus Recorder (WS-200) after reading Andy Carvin's and Brian Russell's posts. I did my first recording with a Thai Dancer who speaks Cambodian, along with my son.
It's here:
Download firstpodcast.mp3
My big mistake was that I neglected to make sure the recorder was turned off while transferring the files to the computer. The files were corrupted! Lost the fantastic interview!
So, I told my tale of woe into the recorder. It records in WMA format (Windows Media Audio). I used a free trial convertor to convert into mp3. Then opened in Audacity and exported at the compression/sampling that Brian suggested in his tutorial (or at least I think I did.)
I fiddled around with Audacity to attempt to edit and splice several audio files. While I appreciate that it is free, it was so geeky and hard to use, that I couldn't really figure it out just poking around (my usual learning method.) So, next step is to find a free program with friendly UI as well as take the tutorial for Audacity that Brian mentioned. One piece of software I will explore is whether or not I can edit the audio using MovieMaker which comes free with windows.
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