Yes... I am, once again, waiting until the absolute last minute to complete our tax return. I have it started and it shouldn't really take me all that long this year... after all, we didn't move in 2007 (heh). However, I have found a good way to distract myself from that looming responsibility today.
I'm trying to figure out the way things work with web hosting, etc. With the help of Brian Michael Page from Christus Vincit I think I now know how to use my simple Olympus recorder to post a few recordings from time to time... I purchased a Smart Audio converter to convert my Olympus files (that are in .wmv format) to mp3 format. Then, I had to figure out how to use the website I purchased last year and never have used to upload files... I've still got learning how to use the mp3 editing software Audacity on my 'to do' list.
I'm still testing the accessibility with (probably unwilling) family members and friends to see if it works... if it all goes well... I'll be able to post a few of my recordings. I am hopeful that when I record something we sing at Mass that is particularly good, or when I visit somewhere and want to share the sounds... I can do it -- I do realize that any recordings will have to be non-copyrighted materials... so if you do hear things... they will be really OLD music (just sung recently). I may also post practice music here from time to time that is representative of what we are singing in the schola...
2 comments:
I will be reading your progress on this with great interest. (Not on the taxes, I know how to procrastinate on them myself, I'm doing a fine job on it e'en now as we speak...)
I haven't bought a recording device since cassettes were state of the art.
I own no Mp3 player. I don't know what wmv means.
I realized while I was rehearsing my kids for Christmas this year that I needed to get something that I could both play for them on, and record them in rehearsal so that they could hear what they were doing wrong or right.
Sometimes the commercial recordings were just too daunting, or were going for a sound I didn't want them to get into their heads.
So, I guess I need to learn a little about how people do these tings in the 21st c.
(Technidiot)
(Save the Liturgy, Save the World)
I am certainly not very technologically advanced... I have felt like it would be just so easy if someone could just tell me step by step how to do this stuff...
NOw that I think I have it fairly well figured out, I am happy to share... but since I am not a whiz at this stuff, I tend to put it in the most basic of terms (heh). I'll put a post that lists all the required activities and just how it worked...
thanks for stopping by... see you at chant intensive?
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