The Complete Guide to Auphonic for Podcasters 

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hi ! so we should use it instead of Audacity? which ones is much better and easy to record ? thank you ! also what platform can I use to add free background music ! I will appreciate the help (=

@@serielajaula You will use Auphonic AND Audacity. Edit your podcast in Audacity, then use Auphonic to make it sound better. Here's a helpful blog with a bunch of places to get free music for your podcast: www.buzzsprout.com/blog/free-music-for-podcasts

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Sounds awesome! Hope everything goes well with your first episode. Have fun and enjoy the process! 😊

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Awesome! If you have other questions with podcast editing, feel free to shoot us an email to support. Thanks for watching, David! 😊

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Buzzsprout Oh I haven’t tried it yet. Still struggling with recording podcast with GarageBand. But I love the way you explained things!!!

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Audition is a more powerful tool than Auphonic, but it's nice to have something in case you need to process something quickly. We're happy to help!

Robert Heske We recommend wav for Buzzsprout. That’s because if you upload a wav to Buzzsprout it will do the mp3 conversion for you.

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The desktop app serves the same function as their online audio optimization tool. If you plan on processing A LOT of audio, the desktop app will be cheaper in the long run

Let us know how it goes!

@@Buzzsprout I tried it and literally followed every step in your video. Thank you for making this so easy for non-techy people like me.

If your audio leveling is done well in your editing software you don't need to run your jingles through Auphonic. Just make sure that you can set your overall loudness target in your editing software so your final export is at the right volume

You're welcome, Ralph! Let me know if you think of ideas for other software tutorial ideas.

It makes total sense! We've used it in a similar way for some of our content

You'll want to add those segments to your podcast episode BEFORE using Auphonic. Think of Auphonic as the finishing touch

@@Buzzsprout Love you guys! If I uploaded my podcast using Buzzsprout, does that mean it'll be available on iTunes? If that sounds like a question an absolute novice would ask, it's because it's true. Ha!

No problem Jake! You will need to submit episode one, but after that it will be automatic! Check out this article all about directories and how to submit! www.buzzsprout.com/help/139-submitting-to-directories

You'll export the GarageBand file as a WAV or MP3 file and save it to your computer. You can then upload that file to Auphonic. We cover exporting in our GarageBand tutorial: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mATGO5ayrzc.html

No need to answer - found my answers in others comments. Thank you!

Indeed, that would have been great to show! Alas, we didn't think of it when we were putting this video together

It only chops up fades, not the actual intro/outro music itself. If you pre-record with your intro music already embedded into the track at the time of recording, you will be absolutely fine as long as you don't use a fade. Just wait for your music to end completely before you begin speaking and you're golden!

You can absolutely use this for your RU-vid videos. Auphonic can take video files, so just upload whatever your export from iMovie and you should be good to go

Yes, absolutely

Simplecast is a podcast hosting platform (like Buzzpsrout). Auphonic is an audio mastering software. So they accomplish different things

Hey there! You need to register and create an account in Auphonic to use the software.

Don’t do a thing to your file. They will just mess it up. Just take your file and upload it. Go to the bottom of the page and click on what you want the program to do for you. Really the only thing you have to choose from is how much you want the audio volume to be changed. Other than that just click and go. If you do a bunch of editing on your own, The program doesn’t really have the capacity to undo your mess and then redo it properly. And respectfully it’s not a reflection on you. You could be the best engineer/mastering guy in the world. The purpose of this software is just to do it easy. It’s really meant for podcasts and the spoken word rather than heavy duty music editing

Unless it matters that the right and left side are different we recommend selecting Mono as your output file. If you have a standard Buzzsprout plan, we encode your files as Mono by default so choosing Mono in Auphonic helps with your overall audio quality

You can absolutely export and upload it as a 24-bit file, it just takes up more space on your computer hard drive and the sound quality difference for the average listener isn't noticeable

You can use Audacity to do those things, for sure. Most podcasters find it easier (and faster) to apply those effects using Auphonic. Ultimately it comes down to your preference

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Hey Steve! Shoot us an email at support@buzzsprout.com and we can look into this for you!

Apply noise and hum reduction and leave the reduction amount on Auto. Listen to the file once it's been processed and if it makes the audio worse then you can reprocess that same file with it turned off without eating into your processing time

You can upload that WAV file directly to Buzzsprout. No need to change it to an MP3

If you run your episodes through Auphonic, most of the mixing and mastering processes become irrelevant. We recommend most podcasters skip mixing and mastering and just use Auphonic (or Magic Mastering if you host your podcast on Buzzsprout) since it'll do the same thing without having to do any work

It just helps with your sound quality, so it doesn't matter which language your podcast is recorded in

You can do it either way, but since the raw audio is often quite longer than the edited audio, it's more economical to master the final audio.

@@Buzzsprout Thanks for the response. Thinking about it more afterwards I realised that it was no doubt for economical reasons to run the audio through auphonic at the end, rather than at the start, since the file will be shorter. Running through twice would end up costing even more... I'll do a few experiments and see which works best for me. Thanks again!

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Hey Sarah! Shoot us an email at support@buzzsprout.com and we can look into this for you. 😊

Hi Spencer, I believe you can! Here is a detailed guide: www.buzzsprout.com/blog/auphonic-for-podcasters Hope that helps. 😊

When you upload your audio file to Buzzsprout, we encode it as an mp3 file. The reason you save it as a wav is to reduce the number of times the file gets compressed and maximize your audio quality

You want to upload your finished podcast episode (including any music tracks you want to add) to Auphonic as the last step in the process before you upload the episode to your podcast host