Chapter 3. Sound and Music

This chapter focuses on creating and editing sound and music for the course Music for an everyday life. This involves finding free audio online, creating our own voice recordings, remixing audio, podcasting, and even converting text to speech.

By the end of this chapter you will be able to:

• Use a set of free software tools for common procedures in sound and music editing

• Extract audio from CDs

• Create voice recordings

• Integrate all of the above into Moodle

• Select appropriate audio formats and settings according to your needs

Finding free music and sounds online

As with pictures, the usual suspect for finding free audio tracks online is again Wikimedia Commons. This is a huge database of multimedia elements, and we can find interesting stuff there. But before we look into these, let's start with the basics of audio formats so that we can pick better files for our courses.

The basics of audio formats

In our everyday life, we can find music and sound in several formats. The...