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:

1. • 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.