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Audacity - A powerful audio recording and editing tool
Authored by: osxpounder on Jun 08, '06 11:41:44AM

I've used it for years, even for professional work, because it's easily had, it's free, it does the basics very well, and, once I put in the time [not much needed] to learn its interface, I'd rather do it in the app I already know, than pull up a more powerful app to do the same thing.

Audacity helped me a lot with its spectrogram view, too --- I used that to make a series of images for a professor who teaches educators of the hearing-impaired, for example.

The developers are particularly responsive to disabled users, and do more to make this app accessible than most folks. I'm impressed with the dedication and the responsiveness of Audacity's developers. Top notch. Far and away the finest example of free, open source software I've yet encountered.

The email list for users is also top notch -- full of helpful, knowledgeable users, of all abilities, and frequented by developers of the program. I can't say enough great things about Audacity, but I've got to stop somewhere. Get it if you think you need audio editing software.

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What clown decided that the iPod calendar view didn't need to show you the Location field? I guess they always use the same room at Apple.



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Audacity - A powerful audio recording and editing tool
Authored by: osxpounder on Jun 08, '06 12:17:46PM

I should add that I've not yet used an Intel Mac, so I haven't encountered the problems I see mentioned with Audacity on those machines. That would be a bummer, if I had to rely on it, but here's how I look at it: if I *must* rely on a software tool, then I *must* keep a machine that will run that tool. Also, I *must* have a reliable tool, which, in this case, suggests that my already-ordered MBP will need a different audio editor if I expect to use it for that kind of work.
Thanks for mentioning the Intel problems!

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What clown decided that the iPod calendar view didn't need to show you the Location field? I guess they always use the same room at Apple.



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Audacity - A powerful audio recording and editing tool
Authored by: joab on Jun 08, '06 03:41:57PM

I used it once to record a live dj mix from my turntables and mixer. I doesn't seem it is very well designed for recording stuff longer than a couple of minutes. It crashed hard on me after about an hour (and the GUI was a mess before the crash too. It was like it had restarted from the beginning of the timeline when I reached a certain length of recording). Had to start the mix over from the beginning. Since then I cannot trust it.

Now I record everything in Logic Express and couldn't be happier!



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Audacity - A powerful audio recording and editing tool
Authored by: joshpar on Jun 08, '06 05:19:30PM

For long recording projects, I have had excellent results with Ardour. It requires X11 and Jack, but is by far one of my favorite audio tools.

Josh



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