Audio

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How to record audio for the web
Recording audio isn’t rocket science, but you do need to pay attention to where you’re choosing to record. If at all possible, record in a sound studio using high-quality microphones. Usually, this isn’t possible, and you’ll often be recording interviews in someone’s office or on the street.

Digitizing audio
Digital sound is created by a process called “sampling.” Most digital sounds, whether on a CD or from the web, were created by recording hundreds of very small snapshots of sounds as they were played. These snapshots build the waveform that is a digital sound. A 44.1 kHz file for example, uses more than 44,100 samples, or snapshots, per second. The quality, as you might expect, is fairly high—CD-quality, in fact. Four or five minutes of 44 KHz-sampled music creates a file of about 50MBs. 

Editing audio
If you’re worried about making mistakes, save a backup of the original file so you can revert to it if needed. It’s often a good idea to save a couple of copies of your file. One should be the original digitized file, untouched in case you destroy the sound in later versions. You might also save a version of your edit. You can throw away these versions later, but they’ll save you time if you mess up your file and need to go back and try again.

Delivering audio online
Upload audio files in the same way you upload any other file using an FTP (file transfer protocol) program. You may find it useful to create a folder on your web server to store all audio files. This keeps your media organized on the server.

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Record your voice on a tape recorder, digital recorder, video recorder, or mini-disc—or directly into the computer via a microphone. Keep it short—between 60 and 90 seconds. Say something worth listening to that does NOT repeat your bio. Sound natural.

If you’ve recorded your piece into something other than the computer, the sound will need to be digitalized and saved as an mp3.

Ask the Lovely and Gracious to show you how to get your sounds into the computer and saved as an mp3.

IMPORTANT! You must save your sound file with the name mysound.mp3. Nothing else will work.

Once your sound is recorded and saved as mysound.mp3, you’ll need to import it into Flash.

1. Open Your Name Website.

2. Open the file yoursound.fla.

3. File > Import to Library

4. Choose the file mysound.mp3 and click open.

5. If a dialog box pops up, choose Replace Existing Items and click OK.

6. Window > Library

7. When the Library opens, you’ll see your mysound.mp3 sound file listed. Click it once to select it. Then click the small drop-down menu at the top right corner.

8. This opens the menu. Choose Linkage.

9. This will open a dialog box. Check Export for ActionScript and delete the .mp3 from the name in the box. Click OK.

10. File > Save

11. Use the RETURN + Apple Key to preview your file. The sound should play automatically.

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