Audacity Description
Audacity is a free, easy-to-use audio editor and recorder.You can use Audacity 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.