For those who might be considering sound projects but were not able to participate in the previous workshops, I hope this post will be useful to you as I recap some of the key applications of Audacity from the workshop. This workshop comes after my Fall workshop on Getting Good (Enough) Audio Recording. Turn on Linux support on your Chromebook.A couple of weeks ago, I ran a workshop on the Basics of Audio Editing with Audacity. Click the clock in your taskbar, the Settings cog, then search for “Linux” and enable it. This’ll take five minutes or so, so have a nice cup of tea.
You’ll now have a Terminal console blinking at you in all its green scariness. It also appears in “Linux apps” in your launcher if you want it again. ('sudo’ means 'do this as a super user’ 'apt-get’ is the advanced packaging tool that Linux users use to install programs). It’ll ask you if you want to install lots of things. Type “Y” (a capital y) to agree, and hit enter. Your screen will fill with exciting nonsense like Preparing to unpack. Unpacking notification-daemon (3.20.0-4). ĭon’t panic, your machine isn’t leaving you. This is Linux installing a set of programs and libraries. (This installs v2.2.2 of Audacity, not the latest one. You should now have an Audacity icon in your launcher (in the “Linux apps” group). Go on, try clicking it and see if it works. If your machine has a high-density screen, some of the buttons might be really quite small and difficult to read, but it works.
Linux on a Chromebook is a bit like a “machine inside another machine”, so in order for it to see your audio files, you’ll need to use the Files app on your Chromebook and pull an audio file into the new “Linux Files” folder in “My files” so that the Linux machine inside your Chromebook can see it. Once you’ve loaded it, try playing it - there’s an output volume in Audacity itself, which you might need to use. You can load audio files, edit like you normally would, and export files from Audacity too - and it exports MP3 without having to fiddle with any additional files, too. When you export files, they’ll again go into the “Linux files” area of your Chromebook. In the Files app, you can pull them out of there and do whatever else you want to do with them.
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