Exporting MP3's in Audacity

1. Download the LAME encoder For Audacity For Windows: http://lame.buanzo.com.ar/

   1. Save the file to the libmp3lame-win-3.97.zip file to the desktop

2. Open the Zip file and extract it to your My Documents folder.

   1. Double click on the libmp3lame-win-3.97.zip file on your desktop

   2. Click on Extract All Files on the left to open the extraction Wizard

   3. In the Extraction Wizard, make sure that your files are extracting to your My Documents folder

3. Open your Audacity Project

4. Go to File> Export as MP3

5. Audacity will ask you to locate the LAME encoder (lame_enc.dll)

   1. Find the lamd_enc.dll file in the libmp3lame-3.97 folder in My Documents and open it

   2. Unless you move or delete this file you will never need to do this again when exporting MP3

6. Fill out your ID3 tag information

   1. This the in formation that will show up in iTunes, people's media players and iPods

      • If you dont fill this out most players will just display the file name

   2. I suggest putting in the following information

      • Title: The Title for this interview

      • Artist: Your name

      • Album: The name of your blog

      • Year: the year of you posted this pod cast

      • Genre: Speech

      • Comments: A brief summery of what your interview is about