Chapter 6Save Your Podcast

Creating podcasts is fun, but the best part is making them available to the world. After all, you haven’t gone through all this work just for yourself, have you? No, you want people all over the world to be able to listen in and enjoy, learn, and think about what you have to say. To do that, you have to get your podcast out of Audacity and into a different format that others can easily download and hear.

When you’re working on an audio file in Audacity, the program stores your work as an AUP file. This is a special format, used by Audacity alone, that makes it possible to open and save projects easily and safely. However, AUP files require Audacity and won’t work at all on iPods, computer audio programs, or CD players. ...

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