Dance Project #1: Audacity Editing

For our first audio editing we used Audacity (link for the download). This program is really intuitive and easy to use and we followed instructions given by our teacher Mr. Witte (link to instructions)
First of all we imported the track "I like that" by Chingy (given from Mr. Witte) into Audacity and it looked like Pic#1. (It is better to create a copy, so you know you will have the original song saved on your computer). 

Pic#1

We wanted to cut all the middle part of the song, leaving just the beginning and the end. So we started cutting parts of the track: you just need to select the part you need with the mouse, as you do when you use Word or Pages; then, keeping the part selected, you need to go on Edit-->Clip Boundaries-->Split New and Audacity will past it in another level. After you do so for the other parts you want to cut, it will look like Pic#2. 

Pic#2

After we deleted the original track we had a new song. 
We exported it in from Audacity saving in WAV. (In Audacity: File-->Export, then set the name, the format and where you want the file as you like, then Save)
At this point we noticed that Audacity allows you to convert the track you edited in more that 12 file formats: we studied 11 of them and we wrote a presentation to show the difference between each one of these formats. (link of my presentation posted on "Marco Domenichelli and Music Technology") 
Since we couldn't export the song in the MP3 format, we put the WAV version in iTunes and we created a MP3 version of it through iTunes (in iTunes: Control-->Click on the song--> Create MP3 Version). 
We put both versions in iTunes and we had now two different versions of the same song: we listened to the difference between the MP3 and the WAV.  
Lastly, we posted the MP3 version on SoundCloud using our own profile (link of SoundCloud).