In my previous podcasting experience, I used Audacity, an open-source audio recording and editing program downloaded to my computer. I had a great experience with it and found it relatively easy to use.

Recently, I found a challenger to Audacity: Myna, another audio editing program. It has similar capabilities, but one major difference: it works directly from your browser. Thus, no download necessary.

Myna is a product from Aviary (who is already known for their free image-editing suite). I tried it out and was very impressed. Myna offers tools to cut, edit, mix and mashup audio. Furthermore, it easily provides options to share and/or embed the media into webpages. For its simplicity and ease of use, I would recommend it.

Within a matter of minutes, I easily cut a quote out from Rachel Maddow from her Sept. 17th show – a segment devoted to Barack Obama’s speech on health reform at the University of Maryland. She said something quite memorable that my friends from the University of Maryland would appreciate. As such, I cut the audio, caught the quote and alas, here it is:

“Wonk on, University of Maryland! Wonk on. The Geeks shall inherit the earth.”

10/10/2009

As you can see, my audio “egg” creation from Myna isn’t working properly as there is an “error opening the file.” It worked the first few times, then nuthin’. Disappointment, Myna, that it’s not working. Why not, eh?! I’ll continue to troubleshoot. Is it me, or is it Myna?