If you already know Audacity and do things differently or know things that I don't, that is expected. I have learned just what I need to know in order to accomplish my task: combining several separate audio clips into a single MP3 audio file. It is about my experiences getting started with this powerful audio-editing tool, but there should be enough information here to help you get started. This is not a comprehensive how-to article about using Audacity. As the church sysadmin and with some knowledge of audio recording and editing (back in the '70s, I mixed the sound and was the only roadie for a couple of regional folk-rock groups in Toledo, Ohio), I decided to learn the open source audio recording and editing software Audacity to help meet this challenge. And that is what churches do-deliver a specific kind of service. And, like many other types of organizations, my church had to move quickly to a new service-delivery paradigm. All of this keeps me busy doing what I like to do, and all of it is usually well within my comfort zone.īut COVID-19 has changed all of that. I also manage my own home network, which is larger than you might think, and my church's network and Linux hosts, and I help a few friends with Linux. Even though I am allegedly retired, I write articles for and Enable Sysadmin and books.

I have worked from home for many years, so that is nothing new to me.

In this strange and difficult time of a global pandemic, we are all called upon to do things differently, to change our routines, and to learn new things.

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