Audacity
Audacity is a cross-platform multitrack audio editor. It allows you to record sounds directly or to import Ogg, WAV, AIFF, AU, IRCAM, or MP3 files. It features a few simple effects, all of the editing features you should need, and unlimited undo. The audio I/O uses PortAudio, which fully supports OSS, Mac OS X CoreAudio, and Windows WMME, and can be compiled with support for ALSA and Jack.
| Tags | multimedia Sound/Audio Analysis Capture/Recording Editors Players MP3 |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | Mac OS X Mac OS X Windows Windows POSIX BSD FreeBSD Linux |
| Implementation | C++ |
Recent releases
- 05 Jan 2007 07:33
Changes: Font size problems have been fixed. Support for FLAC importation and exportation via libsndfile has been enabled. Soundtouch has been updated to a current version, for better speed and quality. Several Mac audio problems have been fixed. The build system now prefers installed system libraries to the supplied copies. An official Intel Mac version is now available. Translations have been added and updated.
- 05 Jan 2007 07:46
Changes: Many usability improvements have been implemented. Major improvements to some built-in effects have been made. Improved accessibility for the visually impaired has been implemented. Timer recording, auto-save, and automatic crash recovery have been introduced. Batch processing has been improved. Many bugfixes and stability improvements have been made.
- 30 Nov 2005 01:55
Changes: This unstable release adds many new features, including multiple clips per track, a new selection bar, improved label tracks, FTP upload, QuickTime import and AudioUnits effects (Mac OS X only), and support for wxWidgets 2.6 and GTK 2.
- 30 Nov 2005 01:55
Changes: The File menu now includes a list of recent files. The "Generate Silence" effect now prompts for a length. Dragging files into the Audacity window now imports them. Better support was added for some audio devices on Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger." Menu organization was improved. Better error messages are shown when opening incompatible files. Other minor bugfixes were made. Several new and updated translations were added.
- 19 Nov 2004 13:43
Changes: This release fixes bugs that caused Audacity to crash or stop recording on some systems. It also features minor interface improvements and updated translations.
- All comments
Recent commentsAudacity is quite powerful for a multitrack editor
It may not be ProTools but Audacity is a cool piece of software. Does what most people will need it for.
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Its hard to find free audio software for osx. thank you.
maybe .au support and tempo/time pitch for drum loops in the future :)
Highly useful
I've used this to record my own mp3's of myself playing my guitar. I can take these to my friend's house and then burn them to a CD. Then I can play this CD for my friends and family.
I can also import .WAV files recorded from video games emulators and then transmute them into .mp3's and put those onto CD's for playing role-playing games.
I havn't seen any bugs as of yet, and I'm glad they have a linux version, because I'll be abandoning Windows ASAP.
Overall, it's awesome. I've seen and done so many things with it (recording songs, exporting .WAV files to .mp3, recording voice-acting for Flash movies, etc...). Keep up the good work; I might just cry if it disappears.
Very nice program!
This is one of the best examples of just how far free
software has come over the years. Audacity packs a lot of
punch and is easily one of the "killer apps" of the free
software revolution.
very promising
This is a nifty project that seems to be progressing rapidly. There are a few rough edges, which isn't surprising for beta software, but in general I'm very impressed. One pleasant surprise was that Audacity was much easier to use than the non-free recording software I've tried -- isn't open-source software supposed to be user-hostile? I was able to start doing multitrack recording within five minutes, without reading the documentation. It's also very cool that it's cross-platform. Making open-source apps available on non-free OSes is a great way to spread the gospel, and personally my Mac is better suited to recording than the low-end PC I use to run Linux. Bravo!