Audacity (audio editor)
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 Audacity 1.3.2 screenshot on Windows XP | |
| Developer(s) | The Audacity Team |
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| Stable release | 3.5.1[1]  (24 April 2024) [±] |
| Repository | |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Available in | multilingual (~20) |
| Type | Digital audio editor |
| License | GPL |
| Website | audacity.sourceforge.net |
Audacity is a free/open source, cross platform digital audio editor. The source code for Audacity is released under the GNU General Public License. The graphical user interface for the editor has been produced using the wxWidgets library.
Audacity was created by Dominic Mazzoni of Google, while he was a graduate student at Carnegie-Mellon University. Dominic Mazzoni is still the main developer and maintainer of Audacity, with help from many others around the world.
Features
Some of Audacity's features include:
- ¨Straight forward¨ interface, easily understood by any user. No special knowledge is required.
- Easy and fast recording and mixing of sounds.
- Importing and exporting WAV, MP3 (via the LAME MP3 Encoder, downloaded separately), Ogg Vorbis, and other file formats
- Recording and playing sounds
- Editing via Cut, Copy, Paste (with unlimited Undo)
- Multi-track mixing
- Digital effects and effect plug-ins. Additional effects can be written with Nyquist
- Amplitude envelope editing
- Noise removal
- Support for multichannel modes with sampling rates up to 100 kHz with 24 bits per sample
- The ability to make precise adjustments to the audio's speed, while maintaining pitch, in order to synchronise it with video, run for the right length of time, etc. Unlike many other programs, Audacity has very few audible artifacts (doubling, or chorus type effects) when lengthening or shortening a file.
- Large array of plug-ins available
- Multi-platform (works in Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac)
- Stability
See also
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Audacity.
Wikiversity has learning resources about Audacity (audio editor)
- Audacity homepage
- Audacity Wiki
- Editing audio in Linux:Audacity
- Audacity Portable for Windows.
- Portable Audacity for Mac OS X — packaged as portable application for external drive.
- convert WAV to MP3 using Audacity Tutorial
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- ^ "Audacity 3.5.1". 24 April 2024. Retrieved 25 April 2024.