Audacity Portable
I have been really busy lately with work and with preparing the 120+ photos from the Pendle Hill High Reunion (will be posted soon). Anyway, this is just a quick post about something new that I found really useful.
Have you ever wanted to convert a wave file into a MP3 or vice-versa and not being able to do it because the machine your on doesn’t have a wave editor like SoundForge, WaveLab, GoldWave etc.? Audacity Portable is the portable version of Audacity, a popular audio editor. You can now take this on your USB stick and edit/record/convert wave/audio files on the go.
Some of the nice features:
- Record live audio and with some sound cards, capture streaming audio.
- Import/Export WAV, AIFF, AU, Ogg Vorbis files and MP3 files (using libmad and LAME)
- Create WAV files suitable for burning a music CD
- Decent editing features such as Cut, Copy, Paste, Envelope (fade in/out), Pitch Change (alter without tempo change)
- EQ and Filters, plus effects such as Compressor, Normalize and Echo.
- Unlimited Undo (and Redo)
So what more could you want in a portable wave editor. OK – it’s no SoundForge but it does what it does so well, you should always carry it with you just in case your favourite editors are not available or your using a machine where you are unable to install a wave editor. Highly recommended.