Create, edit, and share audio files and/or playlists.
Podcasting: for those wishing to broadcast a series of lectures, or episodes on a membership subscription basis. You will need an RSS feed. The most popular host for podcast is iTunes, which offers a thorough tutorial on how to create and broadcast your podcast. FREE.
WordPress audio options: share audio on your WordPress.com blog in a variety of ways.
Soundcloud: this online audio distribution platform enables users to record, upload, and share audio files. Users can annotate audio files by inserting comments along the audio track. Mobile app available. 30 Days FREE Trial.
Creaza Cartoonist: Creaza Cartoonist is part of a suite of education-specific software including a storyboarding tool, a video editor, an audio editor, and a mind-mapping tool. Creaza Cartoonist is available on iPad as well as in the browser. Requires a license.
VLC: open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays virtually any multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. Can do media conversion and streaming. See how to use VLC as a screencast tool. FREE.
GarageBand: a digital music creation studio featuring a sound library that includes software instruments, digital amps and stompboxes, and sound effects. Useful for creating, recording, mixing, and sharing audio files. Available on Mac and iOS, integrated with iCloud. PAID (built-in most Mac computers).
Audacity: Downloadable open-source software for recording, conversion, editing, and exporting audio files through a simple and user-friendly interface. FREE.
Spotify: download the free software to create, save and share playlists using music available on Spotify’s extensive collection, or do it all directly from your browser. FREE/Premium.
audioBoom: create, edit, and share audio files online via a mobile app or your browser. Deeming itself as “radio reimagined,” audioBoom functions very much like YouTube, but with a focus on audio. Premium features include the ability to record and share audio tracks that are longer than 10 minutes, as well as create a “broadcasting” …
Soundcite: developed by Knight Lab, soundcite allows you to easily add inline audio segments to your web text (functioning as hyperlinks). Follow the simple steps to embed a Soundcloud clip (or MP3, M4A, WAV or Ogg audio files hosted on a web server of your choice) and generate a java script code for your text. (Note: …
Adobe Creative Cloud’s Media Encoder: is a media encoder that is a part of the Adobe Creative Cloud storage system. The media encoder allows users free access to ingest, output, transcode, and publish audio and video to different formats. Video tutorials demonstrating how to use the media encoder are provided on the Adobe website. FREE. …
Adobe Audition: is a digital audio editing software allowing users to mix and design sound effects at a professional quality level. It works well with other applications and services such as After Effects and Adobe Stock. Users can remix, recode, or restore audio, and create podcasts. Adobe Audition has several price packages including student and …
Max: from sbooth is an online application that allows users to create high quality audio files. The files can be put into uncompressed formats that include MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, AAC, Apple Lossless, Monkey’s Audio, WavPack, Speex, AIFF, and WAVE. Max is free and lets users pull audio files from a number of different formats …
