TO DOWNLOAD AUDACITY SOFTWARE
FOR CREATING
Audacity is a free software program that makes it relatively easy to create and edit audio files to put on the web. It is a small enough program that you can even carry the whole program on a thumb drive with you to different computers (Audacity software does not have to be installed on a computer to use Audacity).
Use this URL to download a copy of Audacity to your computer (assuming you have a Windows machine) : http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ or you can always type in "Audacity" into a search engine (such as www.google.com) to find a download source.
Select the appropriate platform you use (Windows or Macintosh) and download the file named audacity-win. exe into folder on your computer (such as the Program Files folder).
DOWNLOADING
LAME
You also want to download the LAME MP3 Encoder Library. This enables Audacity to save files as MP3 if you so choose. MP3 provides a good compression (small file size), which is highly desirable. If you are on a Windows machine, this page has the LAME Encoder: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/windows.php
Hint: It will make it easier for you late if you download the LAME MP3 Encoder into the same folder as the Audacity program you downloaded. The first time you use Audacity and tell it to save a file as MP3, you will have to browse to show Audacity where the LAME MP3 encoder is located. After that, Audacity will remember where this file is and you will be able to export MP3 files easily.
Load Audacity by opening the exe file you downloaded.