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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 2.0:
Bug fixes
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Version 2.0:
Bug fixes
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.
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later
Onde Audio Rec...+18
Amadeus Pro+6 
Wave Editor+3 
DSP-Quattro+2 
Audio Hijack P...+2 
BIAS Peak LE+2
Audacity User Discussion (Write a Review)
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| Downloads:197,729 |
| Version Downloads:10,229 |
| Type:Multimedia & Design : Audio |
| License:Free |
| Date:14 Mar 2012 |
| 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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Weird.
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Derision reviewed on 16 Mar 2012
Sometimes, okay, it's a little flaky. Sometimes it might crash, though such crashes are exceedingly rare in my experience. And there may be commercial programs that do the same kind of thing better, though for some amount of money.
But, c'mon... it's free! And it's still actively supported! Aaaand it's cross-platform! When my Windows using friends ask what a good audio editor is, I can point them towards Audacity, and can be fairly certain that they're getting the same experience that I do. So far, nobody has accused me of steering them wrong.
Either way... very useful, well made app, and well worth the download.
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Spike-James reviewed on 15 Mar 2012
And the biggest bug is not fixed: crashes at random when using VST plugins.
But hey, it is free and it works fine for simple tasks.
I can highly recommend Wave Editor. It is not free but imo the best audio editor for OS X.
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Mikofox reviewed on 15 Mar 2012
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David_Evian reviewed on 14 Mar 2012
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Cattus Thraex reviewed on 14 Mar 2012
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Mr.jorch reviewed on 14 Mar 2012
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Smtips reviewed on 12 Mar 2012
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10.6.8 has major wake from sleep issues for __many__ users.
I'm at 10.6.7 also and work professionally. And I find SL much more stable than L which I also have.
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http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=63789
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Banndunn reviewed on 30 Dec 2011
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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"
Gale
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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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Mtreder rated on 19 Apr 2012
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