Recording sermons and posting them on the Internet

By pastorscott

1. Download and install the terrific and free program Audacity.  Get both the program and the mp3 encoder from the web site: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
2. Once you get it installed, press CTRL-P and set the audio quality to 22050Hz default sample rate with a format of 16-bit (this is for a sermon, so we don’t need to up the quality as though it is for a CD or even FM quality sound).
3. Of course, you need a way to get the audio recorded, either through the line-in or the mic inputs on your sound card.
4. Once recorded, and edited if necessary, do File/Export as Mp3 and save the sermon to your Desktop.

1. Create a text file with just one line in it, the url of the sermon’s mp3 file.  For instance, if the name of the sermon’s mp3 file is “love.mp3″ use your text editor to create a file with just this line in it: http://www.your-web-page.com/sermons/love.mp3.
2. Save that text file as: love.m3u
3. Now upload both the mp3 and the m3u files to the proper directory on your web site.
4. One more thing: edit your web page to contain a link to the m3u file.
5. Now, when a person clicks on that link, their mp3 player will open up and start streaming the audio of the sermon.
6. You can see how this works at our church web site: http://www.alvinnazarene.org