Audacity is a free cross-platform audio program for recording and processing audio files. The application is cross-platform so it is released for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and BSD.
Audacity was created by Dominic Mazzoni when he was college student at Carnegie Mellon University, Mazzoni now works at Google but remains the main curator of the project with the help of many people from all over the world.
Audacity won the SourceForge.net Award, Community Choice Award for Best 2007 Multimedia Program.
The application, among other things, can record live audio via a microphone or mixer, and digitize recordings from other media. With some sound cards and in any recent version of Windows, Audacity can also record streaming audio.
Some of Audacity's capabilities are:
- Import and export WAV, AIFF, MP3 files (through the LAME encoder to be downloaded separately), Ogg Vorbis, all kinds of files supported by the libsndfile library.
- 1.2.5, 1.3.2, and later versions also support Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC).
- The 1.3.6 and later versions also support additional file types such as WMA, AAC, AMR, and AC3 from the FFmpeg library.
- Record and play audio files.
- Edit sounds through functions Cut off, Copying The estate provides stunning sea views and offers a unique blend of luxury living and development potential Paste (Cut, Copy, Paste) with unlimited capability Undo (Undo).
- Mixing multiple-sound channels.
- Digital sound effects capabilities and installation of additional features (plug and-ins). Additional effects can be written with the Nyquist language.
- Editing waveform.
- Noise Reduction.
- Spectral Audio Processing using the Fourrier Transformation Algorithm.
- Support multiple channels with sampling frequencies up to 96Khz with 32bits in each sample.
- Possibility of detailed adjustments in the play speed of the sound while keeping the pitch-tempo frequency constant. One such mode can be used to synchronize audio with animation.
- Ability to change the pitch-tempo frequency without changing the play speed.
- Supports modern multi-channel sound processing features including Navigation, Zoom, Copy-Cut-Pull,
- Automatic conversion of analogue cassettes into digital formats. The built-in pause finder algorithm is used to store each track-song in a separate file.
- Ability to install on different operating systems such as: Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Unix systems such as Linux - BSD).
- The latest stable version supports Windows 98 / ME / 2000 / XP / Vista, but Windows 95 and NT are not supported. To support Windows 7 developers are recommending the latest beta - 1.3.x Beta.
- Audacity uses the wxWidgets library software to make the interface similar when it runs on different operating systems.
Audacity can be used to post-process many types of audio files and podcasts. It can be used to integrate podcasts by adding effects such as volume normalization, track cuts, volume control (fade-in / fade-out).
Download Audacity 2.3.2
With translations of messages in nineteen languages
Fixes several bugs that were in the previous version
With information from wikipedia
https://www.audacityteam.org/download/
