Audacity
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Audacity is extremely popular in the podcasting world due to its wide availability, multiplatform support, and free price.
Features
Some of Audacity's features include:- 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 96 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.
- High ease of use
See also
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to:
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- [The Audacity homepage on Sourceforge]
- [Audacity Wiki]
- [Editing audio in Linux:Audacity]
- [Portable Audacity] for Mac OS X — packaged as portable application for external drive.
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