Trying to Podcast using Audacity

Some of the things I've learned while recording my voice and playing with Audacity.

1. Importing Audio is great. Go to Project, import Audio. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to import any music from my iTunes program because Audacity cannot import AAC compressed audio, nor the encrypted M4A format used by Apple for iTunes. I was also unable to import music files from Windows Media player due to patent restrictions, so the only way I was "successful" in this respect was by putting a CD directly into my computer. That was frustrating.
   
2. Silencing pieces of my recording was easy, and I needed to do this to get rid of my little blunders in my voice recording.
3. I also used the "align tracks" function to move my recording around the music that I was trying to import.
4. Exporting the file as an mp3 wasn't too bad. I had to download a zipped LAME file to do it.

I found the instructions at this website to be really clear: http://altec.colorado.edu/howto/audacity/aud_hlp01.shtml