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7 April 2021: How trying to add song lyrics went. (The final result isn’t a very long podfic, but the process of figuring this out added, um, a non-zero amount of time to the editing process.)

Step 1. Cross my fingers and try to just record the YT video.

Step 2. DuckDuckGo variations on how to record YT audio that’s actually usable.

Step 3. DuckDuckGo variations on how to convert the YT video into just the audio I need (because this shouldn’t be this hard, and I probably could’ve just read the lyrics and gotten this over and done with forever ago).

Step 4. Trust a WikiHow article that recommends putting the YT link on a MP3 converter site and downloading the resulting MP3.

Step 5. Successfully don’t have any pop-ups or weird things happen. Import the MP3 file into the Audacity project.

Step 5.1 - Fiddle around with trying to get the Zoom to do what I want because the default zoom levels have been shifted, and there’s no way I’m making the edits I need while being able to see ten minutes on the screen at a time.

Step 5.2 - Make a Cut of some excess silence and realize that my Label track has not been locked to my main track, so the labels for where the song lyrics are supposed to go have shifted.

Step 5.3 - Fiddle around with the volume levels so the lyrics don’t sound like I’m trying to deafen the listener in the midst of the story.

Step 5.4 - Fiddle around with Fade In and Fade Out. Completely redo one snippet of lyrics because that was way too much intro. Second guess myself.

Step 6. Decide that I really want to be done with this, and we’re going to have to see if this is fine the way it is.