Voice Over on Linux

Mark Walker

A podcast about open source voice production tools. Updates at marwalk on twitter Voice Over on Linux by Mark Caldwell Walker is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

  1. Moving Synchronized Tracks Together

    06/25/2017

    Moving Synchronized Tracks Together

    It's fairly simple to move - that is, time shift - all of the Tracks in an Audacity project Together. In theory - you just enable the "Synchronize Tracks" feature - and time shift to suit. But it could be frustrating if you want to shift only a subset of Tracks - vis-à-vis the others in the project - which is a more likely use case anyway. In this Episode - we'll send that can't-move-the-right-Tracks-Together frustration to /dev/null.

    6 min
  2. Getting Technical Properties of an Audio File

    05/29/2017

    Getting Technical Properties of an Audio File

    How can you quickly confirm whether an audio file is stereo or mono - or its sample rate - its bit depth - its encoding type - and other information you may need to know about that file? In this Episode - we'll explore several terminal command line tools - that can deliver the information you need - as quickly as it takes to type the command and the audio filename.

    6 min
  3. Audacity Labels and Label Tracks

    05/22/2017

    Audacity Labels and Label Tracks

    It's great to have a way to label parts and points in your audio. In Audacity - labels are contained in separate Tracks - that can still be associated with points in the audio. In this Episode - we'll explore why separate Tracks are helpful - and a few ways you can use labels - to make things a lot easier for you in your audio project.

    6 min
  4. Creating Transportable Filenames

    05/15/2017

    Creating Transportable Filenames

    Having an audio file not load or play because its filename won't load is annoying. If your file manager won't list it correctly - that could be disastrous. In this Episode - we'll go over how to create filenames that will work - no matter what programs you use them in - or where you send them.

    6 min
  5. Discerning When to Patch or just Record Again

    05/08/2017

    Discerning When to Patch or just Record Again

    In many cases - you can readily fix a glitch in a Recording - as we've discussed in some previous episodes. But sometimes it makes sense to cull it out - and just start over. In this Episode - we'll explore things to consider in deciding which to do.

    5 min
  6. Easing Audio Part Transition with Fade-In and Fade-Out

    05/01/2017

    Easing Audio Part Transition with Fade-In and Fade-Out

    What do you do when you need to join together two snippets of audio - and one or both of them start or end with rough edges? In this Episode, we'll examine how the Fade-IN and Fade-OUT features of Audacity can help in this.

    5 min
  7. How to Decide Which Audio File Format to Use

    04/24/2017

    How to Decide Which Audio File Format to Use

    Should you save your files in MP3, WAV, or something else? Well, the answer depends on several factors - and in this Episode, we'll examine the pros and cons of the most popular formats.

    5 min
  8. Archiving your Audio

    04/10/2017

    Archiving your Audio

    When you're done with a project - you'll want to hold onto your work - at least temporarily until you're sure you won't need to return to it for any re-work. In this Episode - we'll examine some ways to archive your work - so that you can easily find it when you need to.

    7 min
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A podcast about open source voice production tools. Updates at marwalk on twitter Voice Over on Linux by Mark Caldwell Walker is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

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