Audacity Portable is a mobile version of the popular free sound-editing software which can run from a memory stick or CDrom on any computer. Particularly useful for podcasting workshops, you can pre-install the Lame encoder and therefore automatically export as mp3 without any fuss.
Source: Integrating ICT into the MFL Classroom
Worth checking out! Installing LAME MP3 encoder (so you can save MP3 files) works like this…
To add LAME MP3 support to Audacity, download Lame and unzip the download. Place lame_enc.dll in your AudacityPortable\App\LAME directory. Audacity Portable will automatically detect it and set Audacity to use it on launch.
Source: Audacity Portable
But perhaps the most useful application is putting Audacity Portable on a CD. I was at a workshop recently where installing Audacity would have added some confusion–welcome as that is for folks who haven’t installed it before. Now, just burn the CDs ahead of time and you’re set to go! Here’s the instructions, same source as installing LAME:
Support for running from a CD is built into Audacity Portable. Just extract it to a local drive and run it at least once to generate a set of default settings. Next, make any configuration changes you’d like. Finally, burn the whole AudacityPortable directory to CD being sure not to change the locations of any files.
Other neat portable apps worth carrying around…
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Thanks for the list. I need to make a flash drive with an operating system with all of these apps on it just to have. Thinking there might be an Ubuntu version somewhere that will do this.
Thanks for the list. I need to make a flash drive with an operating system with all of these apps on it just to have. Thinking there might be an Ubuntu version somewhere that will do this.
I finally got Audacity to work in ubuntu, but I think it took an upgrade to 8.10 Intrepid to do it. I’ve been carrying around the portable version for quite a while now, and it works like a charm.
I finally got Audacity to work in ubuntu, but I think it took an upgrade to 8.10 Intrepid to do it. I’ve been carrying around the portable version for quite a while now, and it works like a charm.