This week’s World Wide Web Wednesday link is…
www.audacityteam.org – Audacity
I return back to the world of technology this week and bring you yet another piece of open-source software I use on a regular basis. I deal with audio files quite a bit in my job. While Windows Media Player is adequate for listening to them, I’m often called upon to edit files or create them. When this is the case, Audacity gets the nod.
The software is pretty intuitive and the effects package is more than adequate for my needs. It also allows you to export to various common audio formats and sample rates. It includes a spectrum analyzer that, while pretty basic, I’ve found to be particularly helpful in my work. At home, it’s my ‘go to’ for creating custom ring tones, which I do because when my phone goes off, I want to know it’s my phone.
Installation is easy, but I’ve had to add some packages to get it to work on my Linux machine at home, but nothing too extreme. I did manage to get malware once when I downloaded it from a site I wasn’t familiar with, but if you practice ‘safe computing’, you should be fine.
Audacity – give it a whirl. Now go out and web.