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Audacity is a free cross-platform digital audio editor for Windows, Mac, and Linux licensed under the GNU General Public License. It is a multi-track audio editor with many features found in commercial software. Audacity was originally written, and currently maintained by Dominic Mazzoni, now a Google employee, while he was a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University. The current stable version is 1.2.6 released on November 15th, 2006 and is currently one of top 10 most popular downloads from SourceForge.net.

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Free, open-source audio editor
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Supports multi-track editing
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Great free tool with all essential features
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Silence detection for automatically splitting up analog recordings into multiple files or tracks
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Fast. loading files, zooming, applying effects
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Commercial programs have better features for more advanced functionality
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Multi-track functionality is limited and could be improved
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Features

  • free, open-source
  • cross-platform, with support for Windows, Mac, and Linux
  • recording and playback of sound files
  • multi-tracking editing
  • file formats: supports WAV, AIFF, MP3, Ogg Vorbis
  • many digital effects and plugins, that can be written in Nyquist (LISP-like language)
    • noise removal
    • amplitude envelope
    • independent speed/pitch
    • normalization
    • fading (in/out)
    • trimming
  • support up to 96 kHz sampling and 24 bit resolution
  • can detect silences in audio tracks to automatically break up files into tracks recorded from vinyl records and audio tapes

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    Manufacturer The Audacity Team
    Price $0.00
    Release Date Nov. 15, 2006

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