Adding music to a podcast is a fairly straight forward process using a software program called Audacity. The hardest part, in my opinion, is picking out music that suits the mood of the podcast.
Like with big budget Hollywood movies, you want to make sure that the music that you pick goes along with the mood of the podcast. For instance, you don't want music with a fast heavy metal beat if you're talking about something somber.
Those two things just don't go together well. Keep in mind that your choice of music, should match the mood of the podcast, or the moment in the podcast that you're inserting the music to.
These are the steps to add music to a podcast.
The first thing that you need to make sure of, is that you have the rights to use the music at all. Garageband for the Mac comes with a library of royalty free music that you can use as you see fit. If you're on a PC, or if you want to use some other kind of music, do a search for "royalty free music" and see if you can find something that you like. Once you've picked your music, you need to import it the song into Audacity. To do that, just launch Audacity, and import your voice file by dragging the file into the open window. After you drag in your voice file, drag your music file into the same window. You'll notice that you now have 2 separate "tracks" in the window. After you've imported your music and voice tracks, select the music file track, then using the "Time Shift" tool, drag the music to the point where you want it to play. Once the music is at the correct point in time in your podcast, you may want to use the effects menu to fade the music in or out, and also turn down the gain so that the music doesn't over power the voice. If you need music track at the "intro" but also at the "outro" just import the music track again, place it at the end of the voice file and repeat the process from step 3.I recommend keeping the music intro to no longer than 20 seconds. I suggest a 10 second "pure music" intro, followed by about 10 seconds of you talking over your music track as the music track fades out. On the "outro" you can probably go a little longer, probably 30 seconds or so, but still only about 10 seconds worth of you talking over the music track as it fades in.
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