Audacity
Audio recording, editing & mixing tool.
Audacity is a free audio recorder/editor/mixer. You can record sounds, play sounds, import and export WAV, AIFF, and MP3 files, and more. Use it to edit your sounds using Cut, Copy and Paste (with unlimited Undo), mix tracks together, or apply effects to your recordings. It also has a built-in amplitude envelope editor, a customizable spectrogram mode and a frequency analysis window for audio analysis applications. Built-in effects include Bass Boost, Wahwah, and Noise Removal, and it also supports VST plug-in effects.
Required OS: 10.4
Tags:
sound
, audio
, mp3
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27 Opinions
Correct download link for v 1.3.7 ub:
http://surfnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/audacity/audacity-macosx-ub-1.3.7.dmg
Free and very advanced controls. I use this to edit MP3s I download off FrostWire or through torrents to make ringtones or trim...
it works. I use it. It's free. I therefore love it.
I will eventually look into other software, but I've still got miles to go before I'm even an amateur.
This application is OK at best. It is good for minor trimming here and there, but I would not recommend it for any serious recording.
it may not be pretty but very functional. Has replaced commercial software (e.g. Logic) in my workflow. With some tweaking of shortcuts it does EVERYTHING I need.
I reccommend it highly.
I don't see where macdude is coming from... Export to .wav or .mp3 is easy as anything, and found right in the File menu where you'd expect it to be...
Amadeus Pro http://www.hairersoft.com/AmadeusPro/AmadeusPro.html beats the living daylights out of Audacity. Proper UI and it can even directly open and save MP3 and AAC.
Best Editor for less than $100 out there... but that's really not saying much given that everything under $100 is pretty much junk.
I like being able to count on Audacity -- if I'm not near my own personal machine and I've got some editing to do, I can always download Audacity and know it'll work. But it's got some serious issues, like the fact that it can't and does not and will not edit a file directly but resamples and converts every file into the "Audacity" format. Open, edit & save the "same file" 10 times and it nasty artifacts begin to arise. By 15 edits & saves the new soundfile is utterly unusable (unless I'm TRYING to generate the artifacts).
If you really want to do some good editing (i.e. you're not just trimming mp3s for your tunes collection), then you'd be far better off saving up some money and buying something more robust and less harmful to your media, like Wave Editor by AudioFile Engineering.
alej744 OTM
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