Audacity 2.0 Released

Wow; I was one of the first developers to work on Audacity way back in 2001, but I haven't kept up with its development in a long time. It's exciting to see a new major release.<p>I'm always amazed and proud at how widely I see Audacity being used. Most recently I spent the 5 weeks as a juror on a criminal trial, and I saw Audacity installed on the prosecutor's computer.

I love this app, that it's free and easy to use for the hospital radio station I help run. So thanks to all those involved.<p>Is there anyone with some design chops who can't help them out though?

I use Audacity all the time: with customers' permission, I will record short bits of our Skype calls if I think that later I might want to refer back to directions, requirements, etc. This saves needless note taking.<p>Great app!

Summary of release notes:<p>* Many effects significantly improved, especially Equalization, Noise Removal and Normalize. Vocal Remover now included plus GVerb on Windows and Mac. VAMP analysis plug-ins now supported.<p>* Improved label tracks with Sync-Lock Tracks feature in the Tracks Menu. Multiple clips per track. Tracks and selections can be fully manipulated using the keyboard. Many more keyboard shortcuts.<p>* New Device Toolbar to manage inputs and outputs. Timer Record feature. New Mixer Board view with per-track VU meters.<p>* Automatic Crash Recovery in the event of abnormal program termination.<p>* Fast "On-Demand" import of WAV/AIFF files if read directly from source. FLAC now fully supported. Added support for optional FFmpeg library for import/export of AC3/M4A/WMA and import of audio from video files.<p>This hardly seems to justify a leap from 1.3. That and the fact that selection and playback <i>still</i> work in the most counter-intuitive way imaginable.

I love audacity, it started me and my bro off on our music recording road. My bro recently produced his album with it! "Shaky Horse" <a href="http://declandoherty.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow">http://declandoherty.bandcamp.com/</a>

Whenever I have used audacity to do simple audio edits I feel like I am using an elephant gun for a fly swatter. For some reason I never feel the same way when I use gimp to do the equivalent minor image modification.

it works great but some visual polish wouldn't hurt...

Audacity is a great free tool in the arsenal of a budding musician and transcriber. You can slow down tracks without changing pitch to try to understand what notes are being played.<p>Coupled with Reaper, also free if you're a big cheapo, somewhat analogously to the WinRar model, you get so much great functionality for so little.

I love Audacity. The only thing I'd like to see changed is labelling/splits. It is a pain in the ass to the point that I usually just cut the start and end off save that and then undo.

To all my Mac users out there: What are you using to record Skype calls? Anyone know if Audacity 2 will allow Mac users to record system audio?

Love it whenever one of these great free apps get major updates. Been using Audacity on and off for years.

<i>&#62; The Audacity Team is elated to announce the release of Audacity 2.0 for Windows, Mac, GNU/Linux, ...</i><p>Seems weird it's specifically <i>GNU</i>/Linux they support, yet they can't be dependent on GNU userland or GNU libc if they support Mac.

I use Audacity to record live radio shows, DJ mixes, edit sounds for games and even for the odd bits of quick and dirty sample manipulation for music production. For the price it's a really great piece of software. :)

Audacity is sweet - now if they would just get someone on board to cleanup the UI - maybe some new buttons?

OH CRAP, IT HAS REAL-TIME EFFECT PREVIEWS haha no just kidding