Oh my...

I have to say, going into this audio project I had ideas already planned and expected it would be effortless, as of now, I've already spent hours upon hours on it and still am finding it difficult to come up with a final mix. I had previously recorded too long of an interview...thank goodness it was transcribed (which also took hours), but it allowed me to pick out the quotes I knew would fit in. It's neat to see everything come together, but the difficulties I have encountered have really been throwing me off.

1) My computer did not want to make the recording into an mp3 whatsoever. After an hour of trying to figure it out I called Olympus and they told me to download a program for my Mac, called Switch. I should have been able to convert my recording into an mp3, but NO...obviously it couldn't be that easy! I then had to download another converting program, and finally it worked, got the recording into i-tunes and began finding my golden eggs.

2) Finding the golden eggs was relatively easy since everything was transcribed, but trying to get rid of awkward pauses and linking different sentences together is a lot more tedious than I realized. I also can be a bit of a perfectionist, so that didn't help either.

3) I found I had to open 3 different audacity windows because I was taking so many individual recordings they had become too miniscule on the screen to even work with. I actually found it's helpful through in the long run.

4) Now, I edited some songs to throw in, and am utterly confused as how I want them to fit in.

All in all, I like this project a lot, but didn't expect it to take over my life, hah. I'm not going to post the sound bytes just yet, because I want to spend my time working on the project, since I assume me trying to follow directions and post it onto here will take up too much time, when I'd rather be getting close to finishing it. Hopefully within the next few days I'll have it up and running on this blog.