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Audacity is a free audio editor. You can record sounds, play sounds, import and export WAV, AIFF, 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   v1.3.9 Beta  |
9.1 (8.9) 18 votes Guides Similar tools |
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Latest version: 1.3.9 Beta (September 01, 2009) Download sites: Download from author site Windows Mac OS Linux Sections/Browse similar tools: Audio Editors, Linux video tools, MacOS video tools Alert me! when this software has been updated. |
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New in Audacity 1.3.9 View entire changelog Bug fixes for: * Crash, slow launch or excessive CPU/memory use arising from automatic VST support: o VST instrument plug-ins should now be correctly ignored o VST effects now scanned only at start of first session that detects them, then cached o Effects are now not loaded or opened until needed o New "Effects" tab in Preferences to enable/disable VST effects and enable VST rescan on next launch * Default View Mode now works * Chains now always apply their stored parameters rather than those last used in Effect menu * Non-MP3 files imported via drag or Recent Files caused crash if filter in file open window set to MP3 * AAC exports (using the optional FFmpeg library) silenced * Generating audio always fitted the project in the window; fit now done only if generating in new track * View menu items/shortcuts incorrectly disabled when playing or recording * DTMF generator defaulted to zero duration on open * Unwanted interactions between linked audio and label tracks * (Windows XP)Failure to launch on some machines due to "incorrect configuration" issue * (Windows)Crash importing a stereo file while a screen reader such as JAWS is running * (Mac OS X) : o Audio Units effects applied to all tracks in project even if not selected o QuickTime importer now handles files greater than 16-bit or 64000 Hz * Various other interface bugs Improvements: * Compressor: new option to compress based on peaks, improved attack and decay time support * Mixer Board: improved design, more responsive meters and now interacts fully with Track Panel in main window Similar tools/Alternative to Audacity: Adobe Audition, GoldWave, Sound Forge, WavePad, Wavosaur Sponsored tools: Guides and How to's:
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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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