Let's hope they don't have the audacity to charge! (Audacity)

Member Name: dangaroo

Product:	Audacity
Date:	10/08/09 (30 review reads)
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Advantages: Awesome piece of free software for recording and editing

Disadvantages: None

Audacity is a nice little piece of free software that I think I first heard about on here. It's available for free at http://audacity.sourceforge.net - this multi-platform, multi-language freebie is an audio editor and recorder. Several years ago, I had quite a lot of this software and never really used it, because I haven't tried any recent competitors, I struggle to give you a comparison but one thing that's excellent about Audacity is its usability.

Although I have intentions to edit music, my priority was to use this piece of software's recording facilities, at the beginning I felt a bit overwhelmed by the amount of new buttons and I'm sure with a bit of fiddling around I could have made a better quality recording. What's great about this though is it's simplicity, I merely pressed record while playing something and stop when it finished and then I could save it and replay it immediately.

This immediately solved a problem I had - I wanted to use various BBC comedy radio broadcasts for English lessons but couldn't because they kept on updating them. With this cool tool, I had no problems recording the 30 minute shows and it seems that the recording capabilities were more or less limitless.

Another extremely useful feature of Audacity is that it allows you to convert tapes and LP's into digital formats, likewise it can also alter numerous digital formats into one that your program (like Winamp) will accept or one that takes the least space up on your computer.

An awesome free programme that I plan to explore more when I have the time.

Summary: Excellent free program

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