Audacity Explanation



Audacity is a free open source digital audio editor and recording computer software application. It is available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and other operating systems. Audacity was started by Dominic Mazzoni and Roger Dannenberg at Carnegie Mellon University. As of 10 October 2011, it was the 11th most popular download from SourceForge, with 76.5 million downloads. In addition to recording audio from multiple sources, Audacity can be used for post-processing of all types of audio, including podcasts by adding effects such as normalization, trimming, and fading in and out. Audacity has also been used to record and mix entire albums, such as by Tune-Yards. Audacity's features include the following: recording and playing back sounds, editing via copy, cut and paste, multitrack mixing, etc.

The free and open nature of Audacity has allowed it to become very popular in education. For example, educators can use it in: a series of podcasts featuring lectures, video tutorials, audio recordings of eminars in universites, etc.

For more information, visit the Wikipedia page here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audacity_(audio_editor)

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Language Support
In addition to English language help, the ZIP file of the downloadable Audacity software program includes help files for Afrikaans, Arabic, Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Norwegian (Bokmål), Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Welsh in its user interface.

Limitations
Audacity supports only 32-bit VST audio effect plug-ins. It does not support 64-bit or instrument VST plugins. Audacity lacks dynamic equalizer controls, real time effects and support for scrubbing. MIDI files can only be displayed.