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Audacity as Audio Editor

is a free open source digital audio editor and recording computer software application, available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and other operating systems for editor. Audacity as Audio Editor was started in May 2000 by Dominic Mazzoni and Roger Dannenberg at Carnegie Mellon University. As of 10 October 2011, it was the 11th most popular download from SourceForge, with 76.5 million downloads. Audacity as Audio Editor won the SourceForge 2007 and 2009 Community Choice Award for Best Project for Multimedia.

In addition to recording audio from multiple sources, Audacity as Audio Editor can be used for post processing of all types of audio, including podcasts by adding effects such as normalization, trimming, and fading in and out. Audacity as Audio Editor has also been used to record and mix entire albums, such as by Tune Yards. It is also currently used in the UK OCR National Level 2 ICT course for the sound creation unit.

Audacity's features include:

    Importing and exporting of WAV, AIFF, MP3 (via the LAME encoder, downloaded separately), Ogg Vorbis, and all file formats supported by libsndfile library. Versions 1.3.2 and later support Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC). Version 1.3.6 and later also support additional formats such as WMA, AAC, AMR and AC3 via the optional FFmpeg library.
    Recording and playing back sounds
    Editing via cut, copy, and paste, with unlimited levels of undo
    Multitrack mixing
    A large array of digital effects and plug ins. Additional effects can be written with Nyquist
    Built in LADSPA plug in support. VST support available through an optional VST Enabler.
    Amplitude envelope editing
    Noise removal based on sampling the noise to be removed.
    Audio spectrum analysis using the Fourier transform algorithm
    Support for multi channel modes with sampling rates up to 96 kHz with 32 bits per sample
    Precise adjustments to the audio speed (tempo) while maintaining pitch in order to synchronize it with video or run for a predetermined length of time
    Adjusting audio pitch while maintaining speed
    Features of modern multitrack audio software including navigation controls, zoom and single track edit, project pane and XY project navigation, non destructive and destructive effect processing, audio file manipulation (cut, copy, paste)
    Conversion of cassette tapes or records into digital tracks by automatically splitting the audio source into multiple tracks based on silences in the source material
    Cross platform operation Audacity as Audio Editor works on Windows, Mac OS X, and Unix like systems (including Linux and BSD)
    Audacity as Audio Editor uses the wxWidgets software library to provide a similar graphical user interface on several different operating systems.

Audacity as Audio Editor supports the LV2 open standard for plugins and can therefore load software like Calf Studio Gear.

Audacityas Audio Editor supports only 32 bit VST audio effect plug ins. It does not support 64 bit or instrument VST (VSTi) plugins. Audacity as Audio Editor lacks dynamic equalizer controls, real time effects and support for scrubbing. MIDI files can only be displayed.

Audacity as Audio Editor does not natively import or export WMA, AAC, AC3 or most other proprietary or restricted file formats; rather, an optional FFmpeg library is required.

Also, while Audacity as Audio Editor does feature a vocal remover for the easy creation of karaoke tracks, a more desirable result requires several steps and use of the noise removal feature.

In addition to English language help, the ZIP file of the downloadable Audacity as Audio Editor software program includes help files for Afrikaans, Arabic, Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Norwegian (Bokmål), Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Welsh in its user interface. A partial Bengali help file is also included.

The Audacity as Audio Editor website also provides tutorials in several languages.

The free and open nature of Audacity as Audio Editor has allowed it to become very popular in education, encouraging its developers to make the user interface easier for students and teachers.

CNET rated Audacity as Audio Editor 5/5 stars and called it "feature rich and flexible". Preston Gralla of PC World said, "If you're interested in creating, editing, and mixing you'll want Audacity as Audio Editor." Jack Wallen of Tech Republic highlighted its features and ease of use. Michael Muchmore of PC Magazine rated it 3.5/5 stars and said, "Though not as slick or powerful as programs from the likes of Adobe, Sony, and M Audio, Audacity as Audio Editor is surprisingly feature full for free software."

In The Art of Unix Programming, Eric S. Raymond says of Audacity as Audio Editor "The central virtue of this program is that it has a superbly transparent and natural user interface, one that erects as few barriers between the user and the sound file as possible."

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