Audacity

The best audio editing software out there. And its completely free. What more could you want? It supports line in recording and microphone in as well as recording audio as its played. For instance if you wanted to record windows applications sounds. It allows you to view and edit the sound wave directly point by point as well as offering a comprehensive assortment of tools. These include a noise remover and speed edit facility. These are extremely useful for putting vinyl onto the computer in mp3 format as crackles and pops can be removed. The speed is adjustable by as much as you want but has pre-sets for converting between 33 and 45 ...  Read the complete review

I tend to like free applications as I don't feel 'ripped' off if they're terrible programs so I do spend some time searching around for that certain 'useful' little diamond, as a result I came across Audacity some months ago and I was quite amazed at what this little gem actually offered in respect of music management. Firstly, you can get this from www.download.com or even do a quick search around the web and the small file downloads in a matter of minutes, then it is a simple matter of installing it onto your PC, which takes only moments. ** WHAT IS IT THEN..? Audacity is a simple to use sound/music manipulating program with many ...  Read the complete review

Audacity is a free audio utility in which you can modify your sound files in various ways. It can be freely downloaded from audacity.sourceforge.net/download/. The installation is very quick as is the download. Although not primarily designed as a converter you can input one file type and save as another so therefore you end up with a conversion. The program is simplicity itself to operate being that it is menu driven. It is similar in appearance to other windows menu driven programs in so much as it has the usual menus. From left to right they are File Edit Project Generate Effect Analyse ...  Read the complete review

So you've been dancing to the music recording industry's tune over the last few decades and now have a motley collection of music in every medium from vinyl through tape cassettes, minidisks, CDs to MP3 files. Plus, of course, all the associated hardware to enable you to listen at home, in the car, on the train. What you really, really want (is that on your iPod?) is to standardise, digitalise and generally sort everything out, isn't it? You have the hardware, obviously, and probably enough length and variety of cable to wire up a small state. But these alone will not give you good results without some decent software to do the clever manipulating stuff. You need ...  Read the complete review

Audacity is a digital audio editing application released for the personal computer in May 2000. It's primary purpose is to edit sound input into the program with various effects and noise cancellations, but I have found it mostly used to capture audio from my computer's sound card. As someone who listens to Internet radio and other transmissions frequently, I find Audacity indispensable in saving these pieces of audio for future listening pleasure. Its primary "exports" are .wav by default and .mp3 by a separately downloaded add-on. The program boasts simple ease of use when capturing audio. The various audio effects are not something I have tested ...  Read the complete review