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Audacity is a free audio recorder/editor/mixer. You can record sounds, play sounds, import and export WAV, AIFF, 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. It also has a built-in amplitude envelope editor, a customizable spectrogram mode and a frequency analysis window for audio analysis applications. Built-in effects include Bass Boost, Wahwah, and Noise Removal, and it also supports VST plug-in effects.
What's New
Version 1.3.14.0:
Bug fixes for:
- Interface:
- Excessive delay occurred when typing into labels in long projects.
- Last digit of TimeText controls could not be manipulated in some formats.
- (Windows, OS X) Play and Record shortcuts did not work after clicking in Device Toolbar.
- (OS X, Linux) Crash occurred if Toolbars were reset during playback or recording.
- Imports and Exports:
- MP2 files were not importable without FFmpeg library or an import rule.
- Files that could only be imported using FFmpeg imported as noise with no error message if FFmpeg was not available.
- Files containing PCM audio but an incorrect extension (such as MP3) caused a freeze.
- Effects and Analysis:
- An empty command could be added to a Chain which then displayed a Nyquist error message when run.
- Plot Spectrum didn't preserve signal level if multiple tracks were analyzed.
- Other bug fixes:
- Audacity has been provisionally fixed so that it can no longer create block files longer than the sample format or project format allows, and can no longer delete these, which led to data loss. Any overlong blocks found are preserved but "orphaned", so will appear as silence.
- Orphan block files were wrongly reported if cutting or copying to the clipboard then reopening the project in the same session.
- Fixed some crashes and incorrect movement of audio when dragging tracks.
- (Windows) Data loss is now prevented when encountering a corrupted .aup file created in ANSI builds.
- (Linux) Restore building if USE_PORTMIXER is not defined.
- Changes and Improvements:
- Normalize: Faster processing and improved interface. Left-right balance in unsplit stereo tracks is now preserved by default, with a checkbox option provided to process stereo channels independently.
- Spectrograms now allow window sizes up to 32768 and frequencies up to half the sample rate (the maximum possible).
- Mix and Render now preserves clip length by not rendering white space between time zero and first audio, and preserves audio before time zero. To retain silence before the audio starts, generate silence after render.
- Grouped some Edit Menu items into "Remove Audio" and "Clip Boundaries".
- CleanSpeech Mode removed from Interface Preferences (it still runs if it was enabled in a previous Audacity but can only be turned off there).
- (OS X) Added support for AudioUnit MusicEffects (but no MIDI support).
- (Linux) Set the per-user files directory per the program name set in configure.
- (Linux) Changed the default location of the Audacity temporary directory to be in /var/tmp not /tmp, so preserving the directory between reboots.
Version 1.3.14.0:
Bug fixes for:
- Interface:
- Excessive delay occurred when typing into labels in long projects.
- Last digit of TimeText controls could not be manipulated in some formats.
- (Windows, OS X) Play and Record shortcuts did not work after clicking in Device Toolbar.
- (OS X, Linux) Crash occurred if Toolbars were reset during playback or more...
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later
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| Version Downloads:8,951 |
| Type:Multimedia & Design : Audio |
| License:Free |
| Date:12 Dec 2011 |
| Platform:PPC / Intel |
| Price:Free |
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Audacity is a free audio recorder/editor/mixer. You can record sounds, play sounds, import and export WAV, AIFF, 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. It also has a built-in amplitude envelope editor, a customizable spectrogram mode and a frequency analysis window for audio analysis applications. Built-in effects include Bass Boost, Wahwah, and Noise Removal, and it also supports VST plug-in effects.
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Banndunn reviewed on 30 Dec 2011
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Barrettisgold reviewed on 07 Jul 2011
I love that it is simple and not over bloated with features. What some may see as a restrictive feature set and user interface, I see as focused and concise.
I consider Audacity as a essential tool for audio editing work. It has always been very stable, where other audio editing packages have struggled.
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Poikkeus reviewed on 03 Jan 2011
Very intuitive, Audacity lets you digitize vinyl quite easily - and it has the advantage of being free of charge. True, it's not pretty, and a little dated-looking, but it does the job nicely.
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Yoshinatsu reviewed on 09 May 2010
Yes, those editors may be a little pricey, and for people who don't have the money to buy one of them Audacity may seem like the only choice. For free software, Audacity is good enough.
Though it's ugly UI is the least of it's problems.
It's not really stable, and it's effects are not of good quality...
Just good enough for really really basic editing, absolutely not for the professional level.
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My Dec 2 2009 review stands.
It's certainly better than nothing, and if you can deal with the interface and poorly-designed layout/functionality, great. If you need something to edit audio with every once in a blue moon and don't want to fire up Garageband (which is a pretty awful audio editor too), this will certainly do the trick. It's *capability* is pretty good. Its *execution* is pretty poor.
(to be fair, I have the same sentiment about OpenOffice compared to iWork/MS Office -- just so you know where I'm coming from)
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Yes, it's free -- but IMHO it's not worth it. This thing is still (barely) beta quality after NINE YEARS of development. That should be embarrassing, quite frankly.
After a lengthy search for the best audio editor that didn't cost hundreds of dollars (I do audiobook narration, radio commercials and podcasts), I picked Amadeus Pro ($40) and I love it. Every so often I'll check around to make sure there's not something better out there, but three years later there still isn't.
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Jon555 reviewed on 09 Nov 2009
Keep up the good work devs!
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Firemin reviewed on 29 Oct 2009
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If you could help us test the fix, please go here:
http://audacity.homerow.net/index.php?dir=mac
and install the build at the bottom of the file list. Let us know if this fixes it for you.
Alternatively you could convert the AIFF files to WAV in iTunes, and then import the WAVs:
# Open iTunes > Preferences
# Click on the leftmost "General" tab
# Click the "Import Settings" button half way down on
the right
# In the "Import Using" dropdown, choose "WAV Encoder"
# Click OK and OK
# Control-click over the file you want to convert > "Create
WAV version"
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The 1.3.7 Release has been rebuilt with a fix for the problem with AIFF import. Correct builds are available here:
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/beta_mac
Anyone who downloaded 1.3.7 before 09 February are advised to download it again from the above link.
Thanks!
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But now when I try to open a aiff-file with Audacity the application starts and instantly hangs-up.
Am I the only one with this problem?
Would be great if this could be fixed.
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http://audacityteam.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=8506
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http://audacity.homerow.net/index.php?dir=mac%2Faudacity-nightly-2009.02.02-03.15%2F
Or check for newer nightlys here:
http://audacity.homerow.net/index.php?dir=mac
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any audio. All I get is hiss. I'm running a Mac G4 and
have never had this problem with earlier
versions...Perhaps it has something to do with this
portaudio v19 I see on my output setting for my core
output?? Meanwhile this program is now useless to me.
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Anyone else have this problem?
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Thanks!
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