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Audacity is a free audio editor. You can record sounds, play sounds, import and export WAV, AIFF, AAC, MP4, Ogg Vorbis, and MP3 files, and more. Use it to edit your sounds using Cut, Copy and Paste (with unlimited Undo), mix tracks together, or apply effects to your recordings.
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Free software  Win  Mac  Linux  Released: Size:19.8MB |
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Latest version: 2.0 (March 14, 2012) Download sites: Visit developer's site More download options: Download portable version (direct link) Supported operating systems: Windows Mac OS Linux
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Changes since version 1.3.14 Beta View full changelog Bug fixes for: * Interface: * Fixed playback speed and synchronization problems when dragging clips or tracks between tracks having different sample rates. * (Windows) Removed a crash risk where shortcuts could be used to record or import in one project while importing or exporting in another. * Imports and Exports: * Fixed crashes when changing the sample format of read-directly WAV or AIFF files using the Track Drop-Down Menu. * Fixed a crash importing MP3 files that had duplicate metadata tags (this is a bug in current libsndfile which has been patched in Audacity; MP3 files mislabeled as WAV which have duplicate tags will still crash Audacity on Linux if Audacity has been compiled against an affected version of system libsndfile). * Fixed an issue where excessively high or corrupted sample values in the audio could corrupt exports from the start of the problem for the rest of the file, and could corrupt the rest of the project. * (Linux) Fixed Audacity could not be compiled against FFmpeg 0.7.x and 0.8.x. * Effects and Analysis: * Fixed crash on launch when using "Ambisonic Decoders (PC)" VST plug-ins and other plug-ins that enable additional floating point exceptions. * Fixed Plot Spectrum background could be transparent on some machines. * Bug fixes for Click Track, High Pass, Low Pass and Vocal Remover. * Chirp, Tone and Silence generators now remember their settings. * Other miscellaneous bug fixes. Changes and Improvements: * New Interface preference to show the track name in the display (this is off by default). * Longer default Playback preference for effects preview and preview before cut. * Restored use of Page Up and Page Down to scroll horizontally. 2.2 Summary of bug fixes and new features between 1.2.6 and 2.0.0 * Bug Fixes: * Labels now accept lower case "z". * (Windows Vista/7) Pressing Stop after recording could cause a crash. * (Mac OS X) Fixed shortcut keys activating when typing in file open or save windows. * (Mac OS X) Audacity 2.0.0 fully supports Unicode, which fixes an issue where Audacity could not work with folders having non-English characters in their name. * (Linux) Playing existing tracks while recording in mono could cause recordings to be distorted or low-pitched. * New features: There are dozens of new features in 2.0.0, including: * Many effects significantly improved, especially Equalization, Noise Removal and Normalize. Vocal Remover now included plus GVerb on Windows and Mac. VAMP analysis plug-ins now supported. * Improved label tracks with Sync-Lock Tracks feature in the Tracks Menu. Multiple clips per track. Tracks and selections can be fully manipulated using the keyboard. Many more keyboard shortcuts. * New Device Toolbar to manage inputs and outputs. Timer Record feature. New Mixer Board view with per-track VU meters. * Automatic Crash Recovery in the event of abnormal program termination. * Fast "On-Demand" import of WAV/AIFF files if read directly from source. FLAC now fully supported. Added support for optional FFmpeg library for import/export of AC3/M4A/WMA and import of audio from video files. Please visit http://audacity.sourceforge.net/about/features for a full list of features in 2.0.0. You can click Help > Manual (in web browser) in the program to read more.
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The best free audio editor!
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I have seen lots of improvement in latest release of Audacity as recently updated to latest SVN from obsolete one. Thanks to Audacity Team and all other members for keeping it improving.
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I have no problems with: Audacity ® 1.3.13-beta (Unicode) - it run ok and without problems.
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Great program for editing large wav files into individual tracks, to the millisecond! converting audio from different fps WITHOUT changing pitch is also another great feature! Wish a furture upgrade would include editing DTS audio as well...
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I just upgraded to the latest 1.35 beta -- finally you can export directly to AC3! Use: "Export" and choose "Save as type: external program" and then Options: put your command line to pipe output to. I use aften, as this: "p:\aften\aften.exe -b 128 -s 1 -w 45 -dnorm 27 - "%f" and it created an AC3 file. Much faster and more convenient than exporting to a huge wave file and converting. Or you can use any command line to make whatever format you like. This feature was in the previous version, but did not actually work (in the Windows verson at least) ... now it does.
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Audacity is my favorite software I have ever used, IMHO! I use it daily for absolutely everything - recording, mixing, remixing, ringtones. Cleaning up audio, making better wuality mp3's, "fixing" songs, you name it! In the past I have tried various flavors of Cubase - liked it, but difficult to use. Logic.... what?!? More like ILL-Logic! Pro-Tools & others are just too expensive. I gave up other audio editors altogtether for Audacity, not to mention it's Fuh-REE-heeee (and so are the effects & plug-ins:)!!!! The "Timestretching" (called "Change Tempo") function is the best I have EVER used! I love Audacity so much, I'd actually pay for another (more functional) version! (Nice segue into....) The only "gripes" have, or better said "things I would change", are: 1. Cutting/pasting/editing seperate audio waveforms in the SAME track. - Currently, you have to "Split" audio, creating another track you have to scroll (sometimes way...) down to get to, then "Move Track Up" to realign with other audio. When you have a lot of tracks, this slows things down, and can get confusing. Which brings me to my next point.... 2. Colors of "tracks" - different than the standard blue, per track (editable?): - A somewhat minor gripe, but it would help differentiate tracks by sight, rather than reading the (sometimes long) name of each track, causing you to possibly edit/change/delete something you didn't really want to. 3. Auto-Save - editable, or default every 5 minutes or so... - Another very minor issue, but if you forget, or your computer locks up/crashes... all those time-consuming edits are gone. Can't think of anything else bad to say about it, except... That you have to have a computer to use it! Can't I just think about it & edit things while I'm levitating around the universe?!? Erm.... 'nuff said! ;@b
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Wow - fantastic free tool. All i wanted to do, was trim a file to use as a rigtone. Downloaded installed, and cropped an mp3 file in about 5 minutes - thats how easy this tool is to use. A credit to the developers - well done. WMA support would be good - but a quick convert before import is ok..... Well done. Steve.
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Generating audio files using effects OK, but I couldn't persuade it to record in stereo or to record in other than CD-compliant 44.1 kHz
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Works great under Vista x64
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I have other audio editors but this is the only one that has a unique feature. You can take any WAV or MP3 file and "reverse" it so it plays backwards. Nosy parents can see if their kids are listening to music with hidden Satanic messages recorded in reverse (grin). Or, it can be used to record your OWN hidden reverse messages in audio files. In my first experiment with it, I sucessfully "unreversed" an audio file that was saved in reverse on purpose - the Satanic ritual music found in the 1999 film, "Eyes Wide Shut." When unreversed, you hear 2 Romanian Catholic priests singing a traditional chant.
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For ease of use and value for the money (free!), this app can't be beat. This seems like the perfect introduction to digital recording; at least it has been for me. I work in the music lab of a community college and see students struggling daily with more complex programs that don't necessarily have an advantage over this one. Hail Audacity!
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[quote]I have a pretty strong system and all I'm doing is recording and surfing the internet at the same time. And after 15 or 20 minutes of recording, it drops audio! I'm gonna go try something else now, 'cause this just isn't working. [quote] No matter how good your system is, the fault is not with audacity. If you are recording while surfing, thats where the fault lies. while you are recording, dont do anything else, i bet you dont get dropped frames then
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Under 10.4.6, versions earlier than 1.3 were a bit flakey and sometimes crashed. However, Apple's made OSX a real moving target so it's your responsibility to keep things updated. This new 1.3 version is pretty stable. I have a hard time deciding what "Functionality" and "Ease of use" numbers to assign because the app is so rich that you really have to RTFM to get a good grasp of all that it can do. However, that being said, you probably don't need every function so it then becomes pretty easy to learn the subset of things you -do- require. Speed is reletive but even on a dual-867MHz G4 (or a 1GHz iBook) the app is very responsive. What else can I say? I wish I could write software like this. :)
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Easy to use, easy to convert to other sound formats and easy editing of sound files.
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Exactly what I was looking for. I needed a tool to merge two audio files together for a video soundtrack - turns out this was it. Multi-track editor with envelop (volume) control and time-shift so everything could be lined up for a smooth audio transition. Excellent.
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Preserves perfect quality on recording, edit - trim out unwanted parts in a click, saves high quality MP3 all your recordings! What else can you ask for? Very good!
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The new release supports latency adjustments for syncing up multi-tracks. This is now top-notch audio software - and free! Can't fault it.
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Glitches in your recording means you're doing something wrong. I've had no problem with Audacity - right up to this latest release. I use it extensively, mainly for multitracking. It's a brilliant piece of free audio software. I'll take off a point, however, coz tho' it features "unlimited undo", you can only undo the last command (you can't go back, say, 5-10 steps & undo something you did back then). Also it doesn't compensate for your soundcard's latency, so when multitracking you have to manually align each track so they all play in sync. (This, however, is a common limitation in digital recording, I believe). Audacity doesn't support midi, but then I don't use midi so no big deal to me. I've compared it recently to Cubase, which I concluded was un-intuitive & unnecessarily complex - (all those steps just to "arm" a track ready for recording! bah!)... Audacity ROCKS!!!
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I've also had repeated problems with the recorder "dropping audio frames." And of course it doesn't WARN you when this happens. You have to find out the hard way - by listening to your recording back! I have a pretty strong system and all I'm doing is recording and surfing the internet at the same time. And after 15 or 20 minutes of recording, it drops audio! I'm gonna go try something else now, 'cause this just isn't working.
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I've only tried this out briefly but it looks and works great; much of the functionality of older CoolEdit 98 but it takes MP3 as source and output, also OGG.
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It works pretty well. The interface takes a little bit to get used to but it takes very little use to get comfortable with. It has many buit in plugins and does a great job recording(although I have had minor problems with it dropping audio frames but that only happens occasionally and isn't that big of a concern). It also has a buit in Ogg Vorbis encoder(and supports lame.dll for MP3 encoding and buit-in FLAC support is coming in the next release). It is great vaule for its price(FREE). Overall it is a great free audio editing app that is 1 level below many professional(read: expensive) tools.
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