Audacity – Audio Editor

Tracey Brown April 4, 2017 Audio Codecs, GUI

The Audacity software is a well known piece of software which not only allows you to rip your CD’s but also allows you to add additional music to the stream. Adding music effects can be added with this software and best of all the software is free and opensource. The software is easy to use and there is a user manual for the software. The portable version which is below you don’t need to add anything else as it does not install on your computer and you can run this off from a USB drive. See more information below for more information about the software as it can also be used with LAME encoder which is also on this website.

The Audacity software supports the following formats : MP3, AIFF, WAV, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC as well as AU. There are a number of good uses for Audacity if you want to make soundtracks for your Youtube video. This can easily be done with Audacity. outside of the usual editing using Copy, Cut and Paste you can also make use of other sound effects such as mixing tracks and adjust the noise processing such as bass, equalization with both high and low pass filters. You can also add echo to your sound tracks. Noise removal is not bad on the software and changing the tempo can also be done. Note also that Audacity also supports plugins. This is version 2.1.3.

Windows Version	Memory/Speed	Min Memory/Speed
Windows 10 (32- or 64-bit) Windows 8 (64-bit) Windows 7 (64-bit)	4 GB / 2 GHz	2 GB / 1 G