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Dominic Mazzoni
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 2.0.5:
Bug Fixes:
Bug Fixes:
- Shaped dither was corrupted and too loud on all stereo exports except FLAC.
- Keyboard Preferences: some Edit and Align commands for different sub-menus showed the same name.
- Recordings stopped with "Stop and Set Cursor" shortcut could not be undone.
- In locales that use comma for decimal separator:
- Text boxes with slider in Nyquist effects only produced whole numbers when using comma to enter a fractional number. Text boxes without slider still have this problem.
- Built-in generators produced silence after running a Nyquist effect.
- Frequent crashes occurred on importing audio files on some machines.
- Files did not open using Finder "Open with", double-clicking the file or dragging the file to the Audacity icon.
- Tracks Menu:
- The separate commands that aligned track start or end with the cursor or with selection start are combined into "Cursor/Selection Start" commands.
- "Align and Move Cursor" renamed to "Move Selection when Aligning".
- Label Tracks:
- Labels Editor now allows empty labels to be saved on closing the editor.
- TabB and Shift+Tab when the label track has focus now always move forwards or backwards respectively to the nearest label.
- Audio Unit plug-ins detected by Audacity on launch are now not loaded until chosen from the Effect menu. This should speed up launch and avoid crashes at launch due to misbehaving Audio Units.
Version 2.0.5:
Bug Fixes:
Bug Fixes:
- Shaped dither was corrupted and too loud on all stereo exports except FLAC.
- Keyboard Preferences: some Edit and Align commands for different sub-menus showed the same name.
- Recordings stopped with "Stop and Set Cursor" shortcut could not be undone.
- In locales that use comma for decimal more...
Requirements
Intel/PPC, OS X 10.4 or later
Intel/PPC, OS X 10.4 or later
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| Type:Multimedia Design : Audio |
| License:Free |
| Date:22 Oct 2013 |
| Platform:PPC 32 / Intel 32 / OS X |
| 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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Forn reviewed on 22 Oct 2013
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Forn reviewed on 15 Oct 2013
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oaksey reviewed on 20 Sep 2013
I really don't understand the people who complain about the interface. I can only assume that either they haven't read the documentation, which - unlike most free software - is thorough and clear, or else they are obsessed with things looking "Mac-like" in which case I have to say - get over it! It's only "skin deep" you know! It's a tool not a decoration, and I know of nothing better for editing audio.
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Kobalt reviewed on 01 Aug 2013
Damn, that was easy! I know nothing about working with sound files but even without reading the instructions (are there any? I didn't actually look), I had the job done in 30 seconds, no kidding.
Five stars from me because I can't give six.
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Razz reviewed on 21 Jun 2013
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RecordJunkieTN reviewed on 16 Feb 2013
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Mikael B reviewed on 30 Jan 2013
Also I had to use sudo ditto to install as the permissions on the dmg seem faulty.
I selected Ocenaudio instead, currently free in beta.
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Gitteboy reviewed on 22 Jan 2013
If you are serious about editing audio on Mac OSX I can highly recommend Triumph.
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Actually, I think I have figured out the solution. I just have to find the track where iTunes put it. I had put in the artist during the export but it seems to get lost in the process. If I look for "unknown artist" I find an album with the tracks in it. I use "Get Info" on the tracks and add the artist back in and it goes where I had originally intended it to go.
It would be nice if all the info asked for in the export process would stay with the track so the extra steps would not be necessary.
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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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