4/20/25
In a blog post on your portfolio site, reflect on the experience of learning how to use Audacity for audio editing. How would you feel about helping someone else learn how to use it? What did you find most interesting? What did you find most frustrating? What questions do you still have, and what parts of the tool do you want to explore more deeply?
I looooooveee Audacity. It’s one of my favorite softwares out there and every day I am happy that it is a free service. I’ve been using it since high school, and it is always my go-to for anything where I may need to do any kind of audio editing. I use it for video backings, podcast, straight audio editing, etc. It’s such a fun and accessible program, and I use it constantly. I feel very confident in helping someone else learn how to use Audacity–I’ve got a lot of the fundamentals down including how to soften and amplify audio, as well as do sound generation or reduction, overlay and splice tracks, include effects, etc. I have a lot of fun with it, and I’m confident I could help someone figure out whatever they wanted to use it for. I really don’t fund Audacity all that frustrating, perhaps because I’ve been using it for a while, but I remember when I first started using it that I didn’t like how you couldn’t really tell what buttons were unless you hovered over them. Luckily, that’s just something you learn over time, so it doesn’t frustrate me at all anymore. I think something I want to explore more with audacity is metadata–I know that audacity files can carry a lot of it, so I want to find out more where I can add and subtract metadata in my own files.