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Audacity is free, open source, cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds.

Features of Audacity include:

  • Ability to record through microphone or mixer, or recordings from cassettes, minidisks or LPs.
  • Import and export multiple formats with the ability to edit and/or combine the produces tracks.
  • Support for multiple sound depths
  • Easy, graphical editing of sound files with cut, copy, paste and delete.
  • Full range of keyboard shortcuts to manipulate the sound files.
  • Access to multiple sound effects.
  • Plugin support
  • Several analysis modes for interrogating sound files

Audacity

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How to record any internal sound in and out using Ubuntu and Audacity

How cna I record any internal sound like mic in and speaker out from the same PC running Ubuntu, using Audacity or something else? For example under Windows it can be done like this (I want to do something similar): Recording internal sound on…
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How to install audacity software in Ubuntu?

I am new to Ubuntu and trying to install audacity on Ubuntu. I tried these commands & didn't work. sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:audacity-team/daily && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install audacity && sudo apt-get -f install can anybody…
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How do I install a .so file? - newbie

I downloaded freeverb.tar.gz which contains a plugin library (freeverb.so) for Audacity. I extracted the .tar.gz file to my downloads folder but I don't know what to do next. There is no Readme file or any other info contained in the .tar.gz file,…
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Audacity playback speed much too fast, on Ubuntu Mate 15.04

I just had a major issue with Audacity, on the first Ubuntu Maté distro. I was doing some sound work, and recording directly from microphones and audio monitors; but when I attempted to play back the sound, it was consistently done at an extremely…
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Headphone jack port stopped working after opening Audacity

On my Asus F201E with Ubuntu 13.10, I have used headphones without problems until a few days ago, I opened Clementine and Audacity at the same time, and now my headphone port does not work anymore. I am not sure if those two apps are related to the…
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Invisible audacity session running won't let me start audacity

When I run audacity I get the following error message: The system has detected that another copy of Audacity is running. Running two copies of Audacity simultaneously may cause data loss or cause your system to crash.Use the New or Open…
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How to install Audacity 2.1.0

The Ubuntu Software Centre has an older version and downloading Audacity from the website gave me a folder that doesn't seem to have a binary to start the program. How do I install version 2.1.0 in Ubuntu 14.10?
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Where to get Audacity Stable?

I'm on Ubuntu 14.04. According to the help menu in Audacity, it is version 2.0.6-alpha-May 31 2014, and it has bugs and occasionally crashes in the middle of recording. Losing an hour of recording/edits is not cool. Is there a ppa download for the…
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Microphone works, but line in not

I have an interesting issue with Ubuntu. I have a laptop that has one jack for line in/microphone and line out/headphones. This the reason why I bought a spliter like below: Splits one 4 pines jack into two jacks: micrphone and line out I have an…
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Audacity & OPUS Files?

How can I get Audacity to work with Opus files? Is there a plugin I can get? I've heard that I can point Audacity to a framework for encoding/decoding and delegate the work to the framework, since Audacity doesn't support .opus yet. How should I…
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Microphone recording approximately 12x slower than normal in certain applications (new install Ubuntu 16.04.3)

I'm using an analog microphone to record some audio with audacity. When I select the correct microphone and hit record, the bar indicating progress moves ever so slowly. It takes about 12 seconds for it to reach the 1 second mark. If I play the…
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How do I record streaming audio with audacity?

I am new to Ubuntu and am just feeling my way around. The first few days have certainly been bumpy, and one of the issues I am facing is that I can't record streaming audio on Audacity. How can I do that?
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Is there a build of Audacity for Ubuntu that can use a local version of FFMpeg?

Audacity builds on Ubuntu no longer support FFMpeg because of the libav foolishness. Is there maybe a PPA or something with a build of Audacity that supports using a local build of FFMpeg? I could compile it myself, but it would be a set back in…
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How do I setup Audacity and PulseAudio to Record from a line in?

This is pretty confusing to me, even after reading through Audacity and PulseAudio's Wiki and Docs. I know this may be a pretty detailed and long explanation, so thank you in advance for any advice you can give.
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Playback has never worked for me in Audacity on Ubuntu

Sound playback in Audacity has never worked for me in recent memory: no sound plays, but the equalizer in the UI throbs. This has been the case for several years across a couple of Ubuntu versions and machines. This obviously basically makes the…
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