Audacity: A Free, Cross-Platform Digital Audio Editor Version 1.3.3 (beta) For changelog, see the bottom of this document. WWW: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ Email: audacity-help@lists.sourceforge.net "Audacity" is a registered trademark of Dominic Mazzoni. Founding Developers: Dominic Mazzoni Roger Dannenberg Lead Developers of Audacity version 1.3: Dominic Mazzoni Matt Brubeck James Crook Vaughan Johnson Markus Meyer Leland Lucius Developers: Joshua Haberman Monty Montgomery Shane Mueller Martyn Shaw Contributors: Lynn Allan (CleanSpeech) Richard Ash William Bland (Time Tracks) Roger Dannenberg Brian Gunlogson Greg Mekkes Abe Milde Paul Nasca Tony Oetzmann Augustus Saunders Mike Underwood Tom Woodhams Wing Yu The Audacity Logo: Harvey Lubin http://www.agrapha.com/ Audacity is based on code from the following projects:: expat FLAC LAME libmad libsndfile Nyquist Ogg Vorbis PortAudio Resample SoundTouch wxWidgets RTaudio twolame Special Thanks: Dave Beydler Jason Cohen Dave Fancella Steve Harris Daniel James Daniil Kolpakov Robert Leidle Logan Lewis David Luff Jason Pepas Mark Phillips Jonathan Ryshpan Patrick Shirkey David R. Sky Tuomas Suutari Mark Tomlinson David Topper Rudy Trubitt StreetIQ.com 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/ Audacity is built upon other free libraries; some of these libraries may have come with Audacity in the lib-src directory. Others you are expected to install first if you want Audacity to have certain capabilities. Most of these libraries are not distributed under the terms of the GPL, but rather some other free, GPL-compatible license. Specifically: wxWidgets: wxWindows license (based on LGPL) Cross-platform GUI library - must be downloaded and compiled separately. expat: BSD-like license. Provides XML parsing. Included with Audacity iAVC: LGPL Part of the code to the AVC Compressor effect. Included with Audacity. libid3tag: GPL Reads/writes ID3 tags in MP3 files. Optional separate download as part of libmad. libmad: GPL Decodes MP3 files. Optional separate download. libnyquist: BSD-like license. Functional language for manipulating audio; available within Audacity for effects processing. libogg: BSD-like license. Optional separate download, along with libvorbis. libsndfile: LGPL Reads and writes uncompressed PCM audio files. Included with Audacity. libvorbis: BSD-like license. Decodes and encodes Ogg Vorbis files. Optional separate download. SoundTouch: LGPL Changes tempo without changing pitch and vice versa. Included in audacity Twolame: LGPL Encodes MPEG I layer 2 audio (used in DVDs and Radio). Optional separate download. For more information, see the documentation inside each library's source code directory. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Additional copyright information: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nyquist Copyright (c) 2000-2002, by Roger B. Dannenberg All rights reserved. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. Redistributions of source code must retain the copyright notice, the list of conditions, and the disclaimer, all three of which appear below under "COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE INFORMATION FOR XLISP." Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the copyright notice, the list of conditions, and the disclaimer, all three of which appear below under "COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE INFORMATION FOR XLISP," in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. Neither the name of Roger B. Dannenberg, Carnegie Mellon University, nor the names of any contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission. COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE INFORMATION FOR XLISP (part of Nyquist): Copyright (c) 1984-2002, by David Michael Betz All rights reserved. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. Neither the name of David Michael Betz nor the names of any contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. ------------------------------------------------------------- Compilation instructions: First you must download wxWidgets 2.6.x from: http://www.wxWidgets.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 execute these commands: ./configure make make install # as root To see compile-time options you can set, you can type "./configure --help". 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: * Audacity can import and display MIDI files, but they cannot be played or edited. * Recording in Mono in full duplex (play existing tracks while recording) on some Linux systems causes the recording to sound slowed-down. This is due to a bug in the ALSA OSS emulation, and can be worked around be recording in Stereo * MacOS X only: Some users find that after running Audacity other media players don't produce any sound or crash. Audacity tries to select the best quality settings your system is capable of, to give the best recordings possible. Some sound drivers also retain these settings as defaults for other applications, which can cause these symptoms To get round this, enable the option "Do not modify audio device settings" on the Audio I/O tab of the preferences, and make sure that your sound device is set up (in the Apple Sound and Midi Setup utility) to work in stereo, 16bits, with a sample rate of 44100Hz or 48000Hz. See also http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300832 * Windows only: Audacity is incompatible with some professional sound cards and may crash if one of these cards is the default when you open Audacity. As a workaround, make a different sound card your default when using Audacity, but please let us know if this affects you so that we can track down and solve the problem. Also note that the Windows installer will not replace 1.2.x installations, but will install alongside them. ------------------------------------------------------------- Changes in 1.3.2 and 1.3.3: Opening/saving formats: * Import of audio from QuickTime (mov, aac, m4a) files is now supported on OSX * Metadata may be added to OGG files * Improved export option selection * Importing of Broadcast Wave Format (BWF) wave files now tolerated * Additiona...
lev3