timing news media

[Nick Thompson]

Hi, All.

Is there a software that would allow me to listen to a piece of news media and using the key pad, allocate the content to categories as it streams by.

So, for instance, when I was done, I could say that, say,  some proportion of time is dedicated to junk, some to real news, or some to the left and some to the right, etc.  

Free would be good.

Nick


Nicholas S. Thompson
Professor of Psychology and Ethololgy, Clark University (nthompson at clarku.edu)
Research Associate, Redfish Group, Santa Fe, NM (nick at redfish.com)
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[Tom Johnson (via Google Docs)]

Nick:

Yes, there is such a program, and the price is right:  free.

It is Audacity.  Go to http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Here's what the manual says:

Label Track

Label Tracks can be used to annotate an audio file. They can be used for
lyrics, markers, or notes, and they can even be used to save selections.

To create a Label Track, select New Label Track from the Project Menu.
Alternatively, simply click or select where you would like to place a label,
and choose Add Label at Selection from the Project Menu, and a Label Track
will be created automatically if one doesn't already exist.

To add a new label, click or select where you want the new label to appear,
then select Add Label at Selection from the Project Menu, then type the name
of the label, and finally press Enter or click outside of the label.

In addition, you can use the Add Label at Playback Position command from the
Project Menu if you want to add a label at a certain place while you are
listening. By default, this command has a shortcut of Control+M.
To edit the name of a label, click anywhere in it. Zoom in first if there
are too many labels crowded together and you are unable to click on the one
you want. When a label is selected for editing, it looks like the first
label below:

-tom


On 1/29/07, Nicholas Thompson <nickthompson at earthlink.net> wrote:

>
>  Hi, All.
>
> Is there a software that would allow me to listen to a piece of news media
> and using the key pad, allocate the content to categories as it streams by.
>
> So, for instance, when I was done, I could say that, say,  some proportion
> of time is dedicated to junk, some to real news, or some to the left and
> some to the right, etc.
>
> Free would be good.
>
> Nick
>
>
> Nicholas S. Thompson
> Professor of Psychology and Ethololgy, Clark University (
> nthompson at clarku.edu)
> Research Associate, Redfish Group, Santa Fe, NM (nick at redfish.com)
>
>
>
>
> ============================================================
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> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
>
>

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[Robert Holmes]

Googling "grounded theory software" comes up with NVivo and Nudist (both
available through http://www.qsrinternational.com/). Both have free 30 day
trials.

Robert

On 1/29/07, Nicholas Thompson <nickthompson at earthlink.net> wrote:

>
>  Hi, All.
>
> Is there a software that would allow me to listen to a piece of news media
> and using the key pad, allocate the content to categories as it streams by.
>
> So, for instance, when I was done, I could say that, say,  some proportion
> of time is dedicated to junk, some to real news, or some to the left and
> some to the right, etc.
>
> Free would be good.
>
> Nick
>
>
> Nicholas S. Thompson
> Professor of Psychology and Ethololgy, Clark University (
> nthompson at clarku.edu)
> Research Associate, Redfish Group, Santa Fe, NM (nick at redfish.com)
>
>
>
>
> ============================================================
> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
>
>

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