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Audion 3 is now a free do-it-all audio application Apps
Found this out today while I was surfing around looking for some audio-type apps. This is not much of a hint, other then to tell those who may not know that Panic's Audion 3 is now free! I was shocked! Download a copy and then grab the serial number provided by the authors. Prior to this, Audion 3 cost money and the free version was limited to 15 minutes of play! Who says nothing is free!!??

For those who may not know, Audion 3 is a single app that bravely handles all your audio needs -- it's easy to use, but with gobs of advanced features ready to be discovered. It can play your audio CDs, your MP3s, and your streaming network audio; it can encode, edit, mix, sort and manage, visualize and hypnotize. And with version 3, it can broadcast, record, crossfade, and even hang with your iPod. Best of all, it has a nice design --light, simple, and powerful.

[robg adds: Audion 3 went 'free' around November of 2004; I thought we had run a quick blurb on it, but I can't find it in the database. Probably more interesting than the free software (though Audion 3 is a very nice app) is the story behind Audion as told by its developers, from start to finish. There are some great tidbits in that story; it's well worth a read if you haven't seen it before.]
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MP3 editing
Authored by: Azark on Jan 17, '05 12:48:57PM

Audion can edit mp3s directly, without converting them first.
When I looked after an app to do this a few month ago, I didn't find many and Audion was the best anyway.

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MP3 editing
Authored by: rexroof on Jan 17, '05 05:38:58PM

I really like Audacity for editing mp3s.
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/



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MP3 editing - Don't Do It!
Authored by: gidds on Jan 18, '05 08:34:14AM
Without converting?  It's not clear from the docs, but what I suspect it's doing is converting behind the scenes — doing the decompression and then recompression for you automatically.

In which case, every time you edit, that recompression will lose more sound quality.

In general, editing MP3s is a Bad Idea™ — far better to do all your edits in uncompressed form (WAV or AIFF) if you can, and only compress to MP3 once you're done.

Alternatively, there are apps (e.g. MP3Trimmer) which can do very limited edits to an MP3 file without de/recompressing, but that's limited to splitting, joining, and fading.

Audion looks flash, but for serious editing tasks, I use a shareware editor called Amadeus.  It doesn't try to be a player or a ripper, but concentrates on editing, and does it really well: simple to use, but really powerful.  I use for everything from tidying up radio recordings to sequencing and blending CD compilations to editing and mastering my own concert CDs.  Some of its more advanced features (noise reduction, restoration, timestretching, &c) rival or beat those in professional packages.  Well worth a look.  (Disclaimer: just a satisfied user.)

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Audion 3 is now a free do-it-all audio application
Authored by: Zeitkind on Jan 17, '05 06:23:28PM

I bought Audion 2 years ago - it was never stable and the authors never gave much feedback. I won't miss it much



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Audion 3 is now a free do-it-all audio application
Authored by: aranor on Jan 18, '05 02:44:11AM

Never stable? I used to use Audion all the time on OS 9 (switched to iTunes with OS X), and I never had any issues with it.



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Audion 3 is now a free do-it-all audio application
Authored by: yam on Jan 18, '05 08:43:43AM

I just switched to it from iTunes. I may be the only person on the planet to say this, but here goes:

I hate iTunes.

I just want a program that works as well as WinAmp for playing mp3s and streams. iTunes just can't do it. I don't want you organizing, I don't want you thinking for me. I realize your a Mac app and I'm a Unix guy, but when I say "go away," I mean it.

If I drag a list of files to play them, just play them. That's all. What's so hard about that? Why don't you understand streaming? There are all manner of Applescript things to get it to understand m3u files, but, since you're supposed to be the premier music player, you don't do that correctly without all the fuss.

That huge, bloated interface gets in the way. I don't like the "brushed metal" look (I'm on a freakin' computer, fergawdsake). I suppose it's great if you buy music from iTunes or have an iPod (I won't and I don't).

I really like Audion. It does exactly what I want without the additional crap. If only I could figure out where to put the additional skin files...



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Audion 3 is now a free do-it-all audio application
Authored by: caesurae on Jan 19, '05 02:13:12PM
The "additional skin files" go in a folder called "Faces" which can be placed in the same folder as the Audion application. This just might be why the distributed dmg archive includes a "Faces" folder sitting right next to Audion. Optionally, you can create ~/Library/Audion/ and put the "Faces" folder in there. This method allows each user to keep their own collection of faces.

Btw, this is all explained in the file "About Audion.rtf" which, amazingly enough, is also sitting right next to Audion within the distributed dmg archive.

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Audion 3 is now a free do-it-all audio application
Authored by: yam on Jan 20, '05 09:06:04AM

You mean read the instructions? What a novel idea...

Gads, that was dumb.

Thanks for the thwack.



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Audion 3 is now a free do-it-all audio application
Authored by: Phynoa on Dec 15, '09 09:55:55PM

I juz downloaded Audion 3.0.2 but it doesn't work. I mean System says app is not responding.

Mine is Max OS 10.411

Does anyone know how to make it work, or should I juz give up?



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