Sunday, April 13, 2008

100.12 - Audacity Audio Recorder


What can I say about Audacity? WOW! I'm amazed that you can find many of the free open-source projects that are available. In most cases, they are either small focused applications or they are complicated applications that appeal to a broad range of users. Audactity, on the other hand, is a complex program that appeals to users who want to record audio. By that, I mean that it is complex programming -- it is easy to use.

Start the program, click on the record button, start your audio source, and you are now recording. Hightlight and delete the part you don't want. You can save your files as Audacity projects (so you can continue work later) or "export" the as standard .WAV files. If you download the LAME encoder (which may have some patent issues if you are in the US), you can export the file in .MP3 format.

Audacity makes it easy to record anything to which you are listening on your computer. Play an old LP record and feed the "tape out" to your soundcard's inputs -- then you can use Audacity to convert the LP to wav or mp3 format. Listen to Internet radio? Audacity can record it for you.

100.12
Contributing Source
Audacity.com
4/12/08


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