Friday, January 21, 2011

Audacity -Audio Recorder & Editor


Audacity  -Audio Recorder & Editor (ver.1.3.12 RC 5  )
Size: 11.32MB
Release Date: 2010-03-31
OS: Win 2000/XP/Vista/7

Audacity is a free, easy-to-use audio editor and recorder to edit and record MP3 files.
It can be used to:
Record live audio. 
Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs.
Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, and WAV sound files.
Cut, copy, splice, and mix sounds together.
Change the speed or pitch of a recording.
Import and export WAV, AIFF, AU, and Ogg Vorbis files.
Import MPEG audio (including MP2 and MP3 files) with libmad.
Export MP3s with the optional LAME MP3 encoder library.
Create WAV or AIFF files suitable for burning to CD.
Import and export all file formats supported by libsndfile.
Open raw (headerless) audio files using the “Import Raw” command.
It supports all common editing operations, plus it will mix tracks and let you apply plug-in effects to any part of a sound. It also has a built-in amplitude envelope editor, a customizable spectrogram mode and a frequency analysis window for audio analysis applications.

Download Audacity from here


You will need to download and install the LAME MP3 encoder to export ( save) MP3 files with audacity.

Because of software patents,Audacity does not distribute MP3 encoding software with audacity software. Follow these instructions to use the free LAME encoder to export MP3 files with Audacity.

Download LAME  from here

To install - Double-click "Lame v3.98.3 for Audacity on Windows.exe" to launch it (you can safely ignore any warnings that the "publisher could not be verified").
Follow the "Setup" instructions to install LAME for Audacity. Do not change the offered destination location of "C:\Program Files\Lame for Audacity".
The first time you use the "Export as MP3" command, Audacity will ask for the location of "lame_enc.dll". Navigate to "C:\Program Files\Lame for Audacity", select "lame_enc.dll", then click "Open" and "OK".
If you prefer the Zip option for the LAME download, save the zip file to anywhere on your computer, extract "lame_enc.dll" to any location, then show Audacity where to find it as in Step 5 above.

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