Audacity 1.3.10 Beta

Audacity is a free, easy-to-use audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems. You can use Audacity to:

• Record live audio.
• Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs.
• Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, and WAV sound files.
• Cut, copy, splice, and mix sounds together.
• Change the speed or pitch of a recording.
• Import and export WAV, AIFF, AU, and Ogg Vorbis files.
• Import MPEG audio (including MP2 and MP3 files) with libmad.
• Export MP3s with the optional LAME MP3 encoder library.
• Create WAV or AIFF files suitable for burning to CD.
• Import and export all file formats supported by libsndfile.
• Open raw (headerless) audio files using the Import Raw command.

It supports all common editing operations, plus it will mix tracks and let you apply plug-in effects to any part of a sound. It also has a built-in amplitude envelope editor, a customizable spectrogram mode and a frequency analysis window for audio analysis applications.

What's New in version 1.3.10 Beta:

Imports/Exports bug fixes:

• Freeze importing audio files in Pitch (EAC) view
• Corrupted WAV or AIFF imports and WMA exports
• Metadata Editor appeared before the Export window

Effects bug fixes:

• Crash/hang using Equalization; errors in Reverse and Truncate Silence
• Nyquist: Excessive memory consumption; errors in European locales; inaccurate text box values
• VST effects remained in menu when no longer available

Other bug fixes:

• Spurious "not writable/disk full" errors when saving projects
• Desynchronized playback/data loss when using multiple tracks
• Crash opening Preferences when no valid devices present
• (Windows) Audacity sometimes did not come up on top at launch
• (Linux) Crash when undoing or redoing label edits

Improvements:

• Improved copying/pasting of label-with-audio and system clipboard text
• Contrast Tool now modeless, intuitive handling of multiple project windows, various other improvements