FREE Software for Podcasting and Audio Editing
Chris 
You need to check out Audacity.
It’s open source, it’s free, and it’s pretty powerful. It supports multiple audio files, allows you to go in and edit them with a fine tooth comb, apply filters as well as multi-track mixing.
If you’re not ready to spend the big dollars on a professional software solution, Audacity will kick some major butt for next to nothing whether editing a podcast, trimming an mp3 or tweaking some music or voice over.
Read more about Audacity at Wikipedia.
Download the latest version of Audacity at http://audacity.sourceforge.net/.
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How To Get Almost Any Software for FREE
Have you heard of open source software?
Chances are if you need a certain type of software to fulfill a certain need, there is an open source version that’s available.
Open source software is completely FREE as it’s usually developed by a community of developers who bounce ideas of each other to update and improve it as it goes along, not by a corporation who use their own developers and sell it for profit.
The best example of open source software is Mozilla Firefox.
It’s always free, always being upgraded and you can get one of the world’s best internet browsers and not pay anything for it.
The same can go for software for audio, video, email, accounting, word processing and a boat load more.
I’ll share some of my favourite open source software in some upcoming posts, in the meantime you should go visit http://sourceforge.net and see what’s available for FREE.
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How to Make a Living as a Full-Time Indie Musician cont.
Carrying on from my last post, I found this great post on the Ariel Publicity blog where successful indie artist John Taglieri’s philosophy on being an indie musician was summarised.
Read more about ‘How to Make a Living as a Full-Time Indie Musician’ at Ariel Publicity (The Original Cyber PR Blog).
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How to Make a Living as a Full-Time Indie Musician
I’ve been listening a lot recently to this audio download titled “How to Make a Living as a Full-Time Indie Musician”.
Music marketing author Bob Baker interviewed indie successful artist John Taglieri and picked his brains on how John took control of his indie music career, what steps he took and how he has been able to give up the day job to focus on music full-time.
There are were many similarities discussed which parallel building a good business, things like
- Determining your vision as an artist
- Setting regular goals to achieve
- Figuring out what success means to you
- Working on the baby steps every day to push you forward
They discuss the pro’s and con’s of the indie music path versus the major music path. John describes a major label record deal as a bad car loan and he explains why.
They discuss plenty more insightful topics including using Myspace, publicity and building a fan base.
You can learn more about it on Bob Baker’s website.
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The First Critical Step to Successful Change
Take responsibility for your current situation.
I read about this a little while back in one of Brian Klemmer’s books, and I was recently reminded of this critical step again as I was listening to a Bob Baker podcast – Living a Guerrilla Marketing Mindset.
Examine your current situation and take ownership of it.
It doesn’t mean you’re at fault for what you currently have but the moment you can take responsibility and ownership for it, that’s the moment you empower yourself to enable change!
As long as you feel things are out of your control, you’re powerless to create the change you really want.
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