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Audacity

Name: Audacity
Rating: 3.971 (46 reviews)

2.3.2.0

14 May 2019

Audio recording, editing and mixing tool.

Overview

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.

Note: While the software is classified as free, it is actually donationware. Please consider making a donation to help support development.

What's new in Audacity

Version 2.3.2.0:

LAME built in.
mod-script-pipe distributed with Audacity.
'Select' button in the track control panel.
About 20 bugs fixed.

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Just an update -- I gave Audacity yet ANOTHER spin with this latest version, and guess what. 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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