Anyone play with Audacity?

[W1GUH]

Audacity is a free, open source software tool for recording and editing. I LOVE it. It's feature-packed, easy and quick to download and install, and even the beta versions are very stable and fully supported. I've never had a problem with it through a few releases.

It's pretty full-featured. I've yet to encounter a need to do something that I couldn't with Audacity. The GUI is very well done and very intuitive, and comes with a large number of effects and analysis tools, including DSP functions such as filtering and making FFT's of the sound source.

It's VERY GOOD at exporting .WAV files as MP-3's.

[NQ6U]

I don't do a lot of audio work but when I am doing any, I also use Audacity. It's pretty hard to beat, especially for the price.

There's a Mac version available, BTW.

[W1GUH]

And I'm pretty sure Linux.

THAT's open-source the way it oughta be, IMHO.

[N1LAF]

Audacity® is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems.

[W1GUH]

Do you use it Paul?

And thanks for the official, full description!

What I've been using if for is editing and exporting .WAV files from an Edirol R-09. That's a great portable digital recorder. Plan to use it as a log while mobile.

[N1LAF]

I am just looking at it, and downloading ALL the files for my inventory

[W1GUH]

Excellent. One caveat...messing around editing and processing music files is very addictive! Enjoy!

Oh, yea...MP-3 exporting requires a plug-in, something called "LAME". But that, too, is easy to install and becomes seamless.

[WØTKX]

Best use I've had for it so far is removing or attenuating noise glitches in my recordings.

Easy to find, just scrub through the file looking at the waveform for any anomalies.

[W1GUH]

Best use I've had for it so far is removing or attenuating noise glitches in my recordings.

Easy to find, just scrub through the file looking at the waveform for any anomalies.

Yep! Amazingly easy and intuitive.

BTW...I think I learned about it over on the 'zed a few years ago.

[W1GUH]

Oh...and this..

The current beta version is significantly faster than the old release. Both processing and exporting-wise.

I think it's cool that in this case "beta" doesn't equal "scary".