Audacity

Audacity is a free software digital audio editor that runs on the Linux/UNIX, Mac OS 9/Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows operating systems. The source code for Audacity is released under the GNU General Public License. The graphical user interface for the editor has been produced using the WxWidgets Library (computer science).

Some of Audacity s features include: *Importing and exporting WAV, MP3 (via the LAME MP3 Encoder), 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 *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, in order to synch it with video, run for the right length of time, etc.

=See also=

*Free audio software *Linux audio software *Podcasting

=External links=

*[http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ The Audacity homepage on Sourceforge] *[http://arstechnica.com/guides/tweaks/linux-audio.ars/3 Editing audio in Linux:Audacity]