Audacity
Audacity 1.3.2 screenshot on Windows XP
Maintainer:	The Audacity Team
Stable release:	1.2.6  (November 15, 2006) [+/-]
Preview release:	1.3.4  (November 13, 2007) [+/-]
OS:	Cross-platform
Natural language(s):	Multilingual
Use:	Digital audio editor
License:	GNU General Public License
Website:	http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

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Features

Some of Audacity's features include:

• Importing and exporting WAV, AIFF, MP3 (via the LAME MP3 Encoder, downloaded separately), Ogg Vorbis, and other file formats
• Version 1.3.2 also supports FLAC, the open-source lossless audio codec.
• Recording and playing sounds
• Editing via Cut, Copy, Paste (with unlimited Undo)
• Multi-track mixing
• A large array of digital effects and plug-ins. Additional effects can be written with Nyquist
• Amplitude envelope editing
• Noise removal
• Support for multichannel modes with sampling rates up to 100 kHz with 24 bits per sample
• The ability to make precise adjustments to the audio's speed, while maintaining pitch, in order to synchronise it with video, run for the right length of time, etc.
• Multi-platform: works in Microsoft Windows, Linux and Mac OS X, amongst others.

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Language support

In addition to English language help, the ZIP file of the downloadable Audacity software program includes help files for Afrikaans, Arabic, Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Norwegian (Bokmål), Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian and Welsh in its user interface. A partial Bengali help file is also included. The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... The ZIP file format is a popular data compression and archival format. ... Look up Wiktionary:Swadesh lists for Afrikaans and Dutch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Arabic redirects here. ... Basque (native name: euskara) is the language spoken by the Basque people who inhabit the Pyrenees in North-Central Spain and the adjoining region of South-Western France. ... Catalan IPA: (català IPA: or []) is a Romance language, the national language of Andorra, and a co-official language in the Spanish autonomous communities of Balearic Islands, Catalonia and Valencia, and in the city of LAlguer in the Italian island of Sardinia. ... Simplified Chinese characters (Simplified Chinese: 简体字; Traditional Chinese: 簡體字; pinyin: jiÇŽntǐzì; also called 简化字/簡化字, jiÇŽnhuàzì) are one of two standard character sets of printed contemporary Chinese written language. ... Traditional Chinese characters are one of two standard character sets of printed contemporary Chinese written language. ... Galician (Galician: galego, IPA: ) is a language of the Western Ibero-Romance branch, spoken in Galicia, an autonomous community with the constitutional status of historic nationality, located in northwestern Spain and small bordering zones in neighbouring autonomous communities of Asturias and Castilla y León. ... BokmÃ¥l (lit. ... Welsh redirects here, and this article describes the Welsh language. ... Bangla redirects here. ...

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See also

• Free audio software
• List of Linux audio software
• Multitrack recording

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References

External links

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