Saturday, March 20, 2010

SUZANNE MUST LOVE A CHALLENGE!!

March 20 – My friend, Suzanne just loves a challenge!! And I’m the beneficiary!!

Today we spent the morning together while she taught me how to retrieve and record my own music for line dancing!! I am so excited!! For the past year, I have been asking Suzanne for music and she has been sending me songs by e-mail. Then she decided I should be able to do it for myself. And now, thanks to her, I will be able to record my own music!! I am so excited!!

We use a combination of Rhapsody and Audacity. With Rhapsody I can get 25 free downloads a month. With Audacity I can record the music. First, I had to set up accounts for each program and download them onto my computer. We did that a couple of weeks ago.

Today Suzanne showed me how we could retrieve and play the music with Rhapsody. While the music is playing, we used Audacity to record it. However, before recording, we had to adjust the volume so it wouldn’t be too loud or too soft (note the volume signals on Audacity below.) It is quite a process.
My computer screen with Rhapsody and Audacity running simultaneously.

I am so excited!!!
Thank you, thank you, thank you, Suzanne, for being daring enough to accept such a challenge.

2 comments:

Show Us The World said...

How awesome that you can do it yourself now. I love that feeling!

Niki said...

I use Audacity to make ringtones for my cell phone :)