EDge21 Freeware Festival - Audacity

Today's feature freeware is the cross-platform audio editor Audacity

Audacity® is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems.

Audacity was started ten years ago as part of a research project. Over time it developed into a general audio editor. More recently, other people began to contribute to the development. Today, Audacity is being developed by a team of volunteers under the open-source model.

Audacity Screenshot

You can use Audacity to:

• Record live audio
• Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs
• Edit MP3, WAV, Ogg Vorbis, or AIFF sound files
• Cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together
• Change the speed or pitch of a recording
• And more

Audacity Overview: Open Source Audio Editing Program by mikebogle

See a complete list of Audacity's features.