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Audacity
Fortunately, there is a great free audio tool available that will help you convert audio into any
format. In our case, we need to convert to
.mp3
,
.ogg
, and
.wav
.
Audacity
is an open source, cross-platform project designed to bring sophisticated audio edit-
ing to the desktop. The current version works on Mac, Windows, and Linux.
Figure 7-2
shows a sample screen from Audacity. When you load a sound into Audacity, it
displays the waveform of the sound. You can manipulate the sound in many ways, including
trimming, splitting, and duplicating, and then add effects such as fade, echo, reverse, and so
on. After editing a sound, you export it to the sound format that you would like to create. In
our case, that would be
.ogg
,
.wav
, and
.mp3
.
NOTE
Wedon'thavethespaceheretofullydescribehowtouseanaudiotoollikeAudacity,butwedoneed
togiveyouonecaveat:thedistributedversionofAudacitydoesnotsupporttheexportofaudiointhe
.mp3
format. To export
.mp3
audio, you will need to
download the LAME
.mp3
encoder
.
LAME is
also an open source project.
