Audacity

Release Information

	name	Audacity
	caption	Audacity screenshot on Mac OS X
	developer	The Audacity Team
	operating System	Cross-platform
	genre	Digital Audio Editor
	license	GPL
	website	audacitysourceforgenet

Audacity is a Free Digital Audio Editor that runs on the Linux / Unix , Mac OS 9 / Mac OS X , and Microsoft Windows Operating System s. 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 .

Audacity is extremely popular in the Podcasting world due to its wide availability, its multiplatform support, and free pricing.

FEATURES

Some of Audacity's features include:

Importing and exporting WAV , MP3 (via the LAME MP3 Encoder, downloaded separately), Ogg Vorbis , and other File Format s

Support for multichannel modes with Sampling Rate s 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 synch it with video, run for the right length of time, etc. Unlike many other programs, Audacity seems to have very few audible artifacts (doubling, or chorus type effects) when lengthening or shortening a file. However, it is not in real time.

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