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- Audacity: A Free, Cross-Platform Digital Audio Editor
-
- Version 1.1.1 (November 6, 2002)
- For changelog, see the bottom of this document.
-
- WWW: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
-
- Email: audacity-help@lists.sourceforge.net
-
- Lead Developers:
-
- Dominic Mazzoni
- Joshua Haberman
- Matt Brubeck
-
- Developers:
-
- Brian Gunlogson
- Shane Mueller
- Vaughan Johnson
- Greg Mekkes
- Vince Busam
- Augustus Saunders
- Tony Oetzmann
- Paul Nasca
- Roger Dannenberg
-
- Other Contributors:
-
- Dave Beydler
- Jason Cohen
- Steve Harris
- Daniil Kolpakov
- Robert Leidle
- Logan Lewis
- Jason Pepas
- Mark Phillips
- Jonathan Ryshpan
- Patrick Shirkey
- Mark Tomlinson
- David Topper
- Rudy Trubitt
-
- The Audacity Logo:
-
- Harvey Lubin
- http://www.agrapha.com/
-
- Special Thanks:
-
- The wxWindows Team
- The Ogg Vorbis Team
- Rob Leslie (libmad)
- Ross Bencina and Phil Burk (PortAudio)
- Erik de Castro Lopo (libsndfile)
- Verilogix, Inc.
-
- -------------------------------------------------------------
-
- This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public
- License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
- version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
-
- This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
- General Public License for more details.
-
- You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- along with this program (in a file called LICENSE.txt); if not, go
- to http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html or write to
-
- Free Software Foundation, Inc.
- 59 Temple Place - Suite 330
- Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
-
- -------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Source code to this program is always available; for more
- information visit our website at:
-
- http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
-
- This program uses wxWindows, a cross-platform GUI toolkit. To
- compile this program, you will need to download wxWindows from:
-
- http://www.wxwindows.org/
-
- If you install the RPM, make sure you install the devel RPM
- as well, otherwise, you won't be able to compile Audacity
- from source.
-
- To compile on Linux, Mac OS X, and other Unix systems,
- simply run:
-
- ./configure
- make
- make install # as root
-
- If you want to do any development, you might want to generate
- a configure cache and header dependencies:
-
- ./configure -C
- make dep
-
- To compile on Windows using MSVC++, please follow the
- instructions found in compile.txt in the "win" subdirectory.
-
- For more information on compilation (CodeWarrior for Mac is
- also supported) please email audacity-help@lists.sourceforge.net
-
- -------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Known issues/problems:
-
- * Windows: The floating tool palette does not minimize when
- minimizing a project window. As a workaround, you can
- just keep the tool palette docked with the project window.
-
- -------------------------------------------------------------
-
- New features in Audacity 1.1.1:
-
- * User Interface
- - Tooltips appear in Statusbar.
- - Vertical cursor follows play/record
- - Pause button
- - Drawing tool (with three different modes)
- - Vertical Resizing of stereo tracks is more fun.
- - Adjust selection by click-dragging selection boundary
- - Toolbar button context-sensitive enabling/disabling
- - Better zooming functionality (centers region)
- - Multiple ways to display the cursor position and selection
- - Snap-to selection mode
- - Drag tracks up and down
- - Align and group align functions
- - Cursor save/restore
- - Working history window
- * Effects
- - Effects broken down into three menus: Generate, Effect, and
- Analyze
- - Generate menu lets you generate silence, noise, or a tone
- - Nyquist support (supports plug-ins written in Nyquist,
- an interpreted functional language based on Lisp)
- * Localization
- - Improved localization support
- - More languages available
- - Language selection dialog on startup
- * Mac OS X
- - Support for more audio hardware
- - Support for full-duplex (play while recording)
- - Support for MP3 exporting using LameLib Carbon
- * Unix
- - Audacity now has a man page (it describes command-line
- options and how to set the search path)
- * File Formats
- - Uses libsndfile 1.0, which fixes some bugs and
- improves performance
- * Searching for Files:
- - On Windows and Mac OS, Audacity now looks for
- translations in the "Languages" folder and all plug-ins
- in the "Plug-ins" folder, relative to the program.
- - On Unix, Audacity looks for translations in
- <prefix>/share/locale and looks for everything else
- in <prefix>/share/audacity and also in any paths in
- the AUDACITY_PATH environment variable
-
- New features in Audacity 1.1.0:
-
- * Core audio processing:
- - Support for 24-bit and 32-bit sample formats
- - Automatic real-time resampling (using linear
- interpolation)
- * Effects:
- - Support LADSPA plugins on Linux / Unix
- * File formats:
- - New XML-based Audacity project format
- - Full Ogg Vorbis support now (importing and exporting)
- - Export to any command-line programs on Unix
- - Support for reading and writing many more types of
- uncompressed audio files, including ADPCM WAV files.
- * Toolbars
- - New toolbar drawing code; automatically adopts your
- operating system's colors
- - New toolbar buttons (Skip to Start, Skip to End)
- - New Edit toolbar
- - Toolbar buttons disable when they're not available
- * User Interface
- - Fully customizable keyboard commands
- - Autoscroll while playing or recording
- - New Ruler, used in main view and in
- FFT Filter effect
- - The waveform now displays the average value in a lighter
- color inside the peak values
- * Localization
- - Audacity can now be localized to different foreign
- languages.
-
- New libraries in Audacity 1.1:
-
- * libmad for fast MP3 importing
- * libid3tag for editing MP3 file information
- * libsndfile to read and write more audio file formats
- * PortAudio for cross-platform audio playing and recording
-