Adding Your Audio Clips
As with other clips, there are two ways of adding audio clips. If the story is posted to a website, you can link to the website and the story directly. This is exactly the same as linking to a print story. This works if you can link specifically to your story. But if your story is part of an hour long broadcast you'll need to create your own MP3 file and link to that.
Creating Your Audio File
I used Audacity because you can download it for free. There's versions for both Microsoft Windows and Mac. If you're working in Windows, you'll also need to download a plug-in called "lame-lib." This enables Audacity to create an MP3 file.
- Go to the website where the audio for your story is posted and download the audio file to your computer;
- Open Audacity and import your audio file; save the file as a new project;
- Delete the portion of the audio before your story; if there's an anchor lead you'll want to keep that;
- Delete the portion of the audio after your story; if there's an anchor close you'll want to keep that;
- Export the file as an MP3 file. Don't use any spaces or dashes in the filename;
- Use a FTP to upload the MP3 file to your server space;
- Now you can link to the MP3 file from your blog. It's a good idea to include the radio station, the program and the date your story aired.