Audacity

Audacity is a free, easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. The interface is translated into many languages.

Overview

Audacity is free software, developed by a group of volunteers and distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). Programs like Audacity are also called open source software, because their source code is available for anyone to study or use.

Features

• Record live audio
• Record computer playback on any Windows Vista or later machine
• Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs
• Edit WAV, AIFF, FLAC, MP2, MP3 or Ogg Vorbis sound files
• Formats: AC-3, M4A/M4R (AAC), WMA and other formats supported using optional libraries
• Cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together
• Numerous effects including change the speed or pitch of a recording
• And more! See the complete list of features: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/about/features

2.2.2 release

February 20th, 2018: Audacity 2.2.2 Released

• Major new features – see updated manual for details:
  • Easier zooming in and out with mousewheel, new Zoom Toggle command, and context menu for vertical rulers (thanks to James Crook)
  • Easy access to change keyboard bindings of menu commands by holding Shift key
  • Detection of dropout errors while recording with overburdened CPU
  • Half-wave display option
• Changed in Audacity 2.2.2:
  • Improved contrasts in Light and Dark themes
  • Extra menu consolidates Ext-Bar and Ext-Command menus that were introduced in the previous 2.2.1 release
  • Several bugs/annoyances in 2.2.0 are now fixed, most importantly:
  • Multiple use of “Save As” to the existing open project will not result in data corruption/loss
  • Exporting audio in compressed formats to device with insufficient space will not produce inconsistent/truncated results
  • Fuller details on the changes since 2.2.1 can be found in the 2.2.2 Release Notes.

For more information

• https://sourceforge.net/projects/audacity/
• http://www.audacityteam.org/download/ contains more recent versions than sourceforge
• https://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Audacity_Wiki_Home_Page Audacity Wiki