{"id":594,"date":"2024-03-19T14:27:39","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T18:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/animation.monmouth.edu\/instruct\/?p=594"},"modified":"2025-05-01T12:17:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T16:17:15","slug":"audacity-audio-editing-and-recording","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/animation.monmouth.edu\/instruct\/resources\/audacity-audio-editing-and-recording\/","title":{"rendered":"Audacity: Audio Editing and Recording"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Audacity is a powerful open source audio editing program, with many high quality filters you an use to process you audio and make it sound exactly how you want it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"noteBox\">There have been changes in how this open source package in managed, including a controversy over data collection. As alternative you may consider Tenacity, which is a fork of this project<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Available for Mac, PC and Linux<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.audacityteam.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"864\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/animation.monmouth.edu\/instruct\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/03\/AudacityInterface.png\" alt=\"Audacity Interface\" class=\"wp-image-595\" srcset=\"https:\/\/animation.monmouth.edu\/instruct\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/03\/AudacityInterface.png 864w, https:\/\/animation.monmouth.edu\/instruct\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/03\/AudacityInterface-768x384.png 768w, https:\/\/animation.monmouth.edu\/instruct\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/03\/AudacityInterface-300x150.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:1rem\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.audacityteam.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Audacity Website<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>To make optimal use of Audacity (to read and write .mp3 for instance) you need to install ffmpeg<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/support.audacityteam.org\/basics\/installing-ffmpeg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">How to get FFMPEG<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Audacity is a powerful open source audio editing program, with many high quality filters you an use to process you audio and make it sound exactly how you want it.<\/p>\n<p>Available for Mac, PC and Linux<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,4],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-source","category-resources","tag-tool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/animation.monmouth.edu\/instruct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/animation.monmouth.edu\/instruct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/animation.monmouth.edu\/instruct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animation.monmouth.edu\/instruct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animation.monmouth.edu\/instruct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/animation.monmouth.edu\/instruct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":679,"href":"https:\/\/animation.monmouth.edu\/instruct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions\/679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animation.monmouth.edu\/instruct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/animation.monmouth.edu\/instruct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animation.monmouth.edu\/instruct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animation.monmouth.edu\/instruct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}