{"id":17630,"date":"2024-04-08T12:54:59","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T12:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.udel.edu\/news\/?p=17630"},"modified":"2024-04-08T12:54:59","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T12:54:59","slug":"adding-music-to-podcasts-in-audacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.udel.edu\/news\/2024\/04\/08\/adding-music-to-podcasts-in-audacity\/","title":{"rendered":"Adding Music to Podcasts in Audacity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Text and video by Ellie Parcells, Education Resource Center and Student Multimedia Design Center<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Say you\u2019ve started your own podcast using the program Audacity and would like to give it more pizzazz so it will stand out from the crowd. What can you do? Well, adding music is a great place to start!<\/p>\n<p>Whether it be adding intro and outro tunes or a backing song that accompanies your voice throughout the entire podcast, music is a great way to give your podcast an extra level of flare. Adding music to complement rather than to compete with your voice is not always the easiest, though.<\/p>\n<p>In this video, you will learn how to import music into your Audacity project as well as how to trim or edit your music so that it fits perfectly into your podcast.<\/p>\n<div style=\"max-width: 100%;\">\n<div style=\"position: relative; padding-bottom: 71.25%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"kaltura_player\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0;\" title=\"Adding Music to Podcasts in Audacity\" src=\"https:\/\/cdnapisec.kaltura.com\/p\/2358381\/sp\/235838100\/embedIframeJs\/uiconf_id\/43030021\/partner_id\/2358381?iframeembed=true&amp;playerId=kaltura_player&amp;entry_id=1_9mixx8l3&amp;flashvars[streamerType]=auto&amp;flashvars[localizationCode]=en&amp;flashvars[sideBarContainer.plugin]=true&amp;flashvars[sideBarContainer.position]=left&amp;flashvars[sideBarContainer.clickToClose]=true&amp;flashvars[chapters.plugin]=true&amp;flashvars[chapters.layout]=vertical&amp;flashvars[chapters.thumbnailRotator]=false&amp;flashvars[streamSelector.plugin]=true&amp;flashvars[EmbedPlayer.SpinnerTarget]=videoHolder&amp;flashvars[dualScreen.plugin]=true&amp;flashvars[hotspots.plugin]=1&amp;flashvars[Kaltura.addCrossoriginToIframe]=true&amp;&amp;wid=1_tafaxoh2\" width=\"400\" height=\"285\" frameborder=\"0\" sandbox=\"allow-downloads allow-forms allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-top-navigation allow-pointer-lock allow-popups allow-modals allow-orientation-lock allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-presentation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Audacity, along with a variety of other audio recording and editing programs, can be found on the computers in the Student Multimedia Center in Morris Library. Stop by and try it out!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>This article is part of the weekly series \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/library.udel.edu\/multimedia\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Multimedia Tips and Tricks<\/a>,\u201d which shares content in response to frequently asked questions at the Student Multimedia Design Center. We\u2019d love to hear from you. Please share your feedback with us by filling out our <a href=\"https:\/\/delaware.ca1.qualtrics.com\/jfe\/form\/SV_55NCpAlnlivAFqm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">survey<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Text and video by Ellie Parcells, Education Resource Center and Student Multimedia Design Center &nbsp; Say you\u2019ve started your own podcast using the program Audacity and would like to give it more pizzazz so it will stand out from the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":17714,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-smdc"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-05 20:44:15","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.udel.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.udel.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.udel.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.udel.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.udel.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17630"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/library.udel.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17720,"href":"https:\/\/library.udel.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17630\/revisions\/17720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.udel.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.udel.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.udel.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.udel.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}