How do I upload audio?
Go to the Store page
Drag and drop your .wav audio into the blue column on the left OR
Click the darker blue button to open up a file picker
Fill in required metadata: title and contributor. These values will be encoded into the files themselves.
For titles, try to be descriptive but brief.
Good titles:
Take Two: Josie Huang on Angelenos moving out of LA
All Things Considered: LA air may increase your risk of kidney disease
Bad titles:
Take Two ep 3
All things considered
Larry talking
Contributors can be producers, reporters, narrators, or speakers in the audio. Separate contributors with a comma.
Good contributors:
Josie Huang, Louise Yang, Larry David, Steve Profitt
Josie Huang
Bad contributors
Josie Louise Larry
Josie--Louise--Larry
Josie/Louise/Larry
Louise
Fill in tags for the audio.
Tags can be comma separated, but multi-word terms should use a hyphen. Tags answer the question: What are people talking about in this audio?
Good tags:
traffic, sound-effects, barking
traffic sound-effects barking dogs
jelly-fish, e.coli, L.A. river
Bad tags:
not having a tag
Click "Upload this file"
A progress bar will show upload progress.
Upload can be paused at any time and resumed.
When the bar gets to 100%, the server will start transcoding the audio
After the audio is transcoded, you will see a green checkmark next to your audio title.
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