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Audacity

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Audacity screenshot on Linux
Audacity screenshot on Linux

Audacity is a free digital audio editor that runs on the Linux/UNIX, Mac OS 9/Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows operating systems. The source code for Audacity is released under the GNU General Public License. The GUI for the editor has been produced using the wxWidgets library.

Some of Audacity's features include:

  • Importing and exporting WAV, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, and other file formats
  • Recording and playing sounds
  • Editing via Cut, Copy, Paste (with unlimited Undo)
  • Multi-track mixing
  • Digital effects and effect plug-ins
  • Amplitude envelope editing
  • Noise removal
  • Support for multichannel modes with sampling rates up to 96 kHz with 24 bits per sample

The latest version of Audacity as of November 2004 is 1.2.3.

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