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Is there multiband compressor for Audacity on Linux?

There is C3 compressor, but people say it's from 2005, they couldn't make it work with current Audacity. It has to be free/cheap for commercial use.
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Audio production with a non-linear editor that works from plain-text files

I am starting audio production after many years in software development. I have produced some audio for video in Final Cut Pro and now I want to go to the next level. After I finish the project, I may ...
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Audio and video editor which can do both time-stretching and video grid alignment well

I recently had to make a lockdown-style mosaic music video where everyone submitted their individual parts seperately, and they all had to be displayed in seperate boxes on the screen. Coming from ...
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Software for voice editing and recording

I have started a new hobby, I want to sing covers mostly for myself. I bought the U-PHORIA Studio. Now I want to know which software to use. The instruction guide recommends Audacity although I am ...
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Tool to remove clicking sounds in audio recording due to clipping (Android or Windows)

Please recommend Android or Windows software (or a web-app) that will remove clicking sounds from recordings of band practice sessions due to the peak audio levels being too loud. I realize that it ...
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Does anyone know a free and lossless 'audio volume normalizer' with a spectograph or sth else useful?

(so that I can check to see if it's good before I convert/write) (If anyone knows one that only works for mid and flac files that's good enough:) [P.S. please don't suggest audacity, for the love of ...
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Audio editing tool where you can cut / trim an mp3 file directly, without re-encoding it?

I have some mp3 files that need to be cut in segments (one mp3 file for the start, one separate mp3 file for the middle, and another mp3 file for the end). It can be easily done in any DAW, but DAWs ...
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Delete multiple sections of an audio file at once

Here is what I want to do; I want to trim out all unwanted sections of an audio file at once. Is there an application that allows you to input time intervals (start and end) for all unwanted sections. ...
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Sound editor for Mac to manually mix (crossfade) music files?

I have a long music mp3 file and want to cut out a part in the middle. I would like to create a smooth transition between the end of the first and the start of the second part, like a crossfade, and ...
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Audio Recognition Software, commercial detector?

I am wondering if there is such software or can be made. Every time a commercial is played on TV, few seconds before the commercial there is a signal like a beep. I have links and when you paste them ...
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Splitting OGG and M4A audio files without transcoding

I am looking for some (free or paid) softwares, APIs or programming libraries (any programming language) for splitting OGG and M4A audio files without transcoding. By splitting I mean: transforming a ...
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Windows app to trim the commentary at the end of a song

Is there a windows app to trim commentary at the end of a song? Like this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVXziMFEqX0 The music ends at circa 3:42, then there's silence for at least 10 seconds, ...
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OGG file length fixing program (to turn OGG files with 1:45 audio length to correct length)

I have an OGG song file that I want to play with StepMania dance program on my computer but it is one of those songs that were patched so that it could be played on any of the In The Groove Arcade ...
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Software for audio processing: improving intelligibility

Besides Audacity, what software are there for audio enhancement? Basically, I'm interested in speech audio. Cleaning of background noise can be done really well with Audacity, but what else can be ...
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Voice alteration/modification software (other than Audacity)

I'm looking for voice alteration/modification software for Windows. I need it for work with audio files. It could be that there is only so much which can be done with a voice, but the SW options that ...
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Add Drum Track to MP3

I'm looking for something to add a drum track to an MP3. Windows 10 Create a full (not overly simplified) drum track Add drum track to an existing MP3 Free would be nice as this is just a one-time ...
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Android sound file editing app with unlimited waveform editing zoom

As a Android user, I want an app that allows me to: Open a sound file in whatever sound format. View the sound file in a waveform editor. Select a section of sound file. Zoom in as deeply as possible,...
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GUI app to cut audio without (or with mininal) recoding

Audio formats these days typically involve blocks/segments of a certain lengths. I would like a GUI tool to inspect (and listen to) audio tracks, and decide where to cut them, so that either: Cuts ...
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Mass MP3 File Stretcher?

Say for example I have hundreds of .mp3 files that I want to stretch the audio 2x in every single file, but don't want to do it individually. What software would let me do this?
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Record audio of headwords and definitions of entire Chinese-English dictionary

I would like to make audio recordings of an open source Chinese/English dictionary. I would like a separate audio file (i.e. wav or mp3 file) for each headword and a separate file for each definition ...
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Audio recording software that allows setting markers?

While recording a podcast, it would be useful to be able to set markers for later editing. Eg, to mark that I just heard... a mistake or awkward silence that I want to edit out a bit of info that ...
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Software to retrieve songs from a larger audio file as individual recordings

I record audio streams from internet radio stations. The recordings are usually about an hour long ( mpeg or flac format ) and each recording contains several songs / pieces of music. Is there ...
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Concatenate sequential multitrack WAV files into a set of single-track WAV files

I used arecord in a larger script to capture each mic individually during a live sound gig: # Start recording echo Recording to "$REC_PATH" arecord --device=hw:CARD=X18XR18,DEV=0 --channels=18 --file-...
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Software recommendation to remove parts of audio from an audible audibook

I'm trying to get lots of audio I can fall asleep to and has content I find interesting/want to learn I have some audiobooks through my amazon audible account. For one of those books, at the start ...
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Windows program to lower bitrate of M4A files without re-encoding

Background: I have a music playlist of .M4A files (AAC codecs) at varying bitrates that I'd like to lower to a set bitrate for the purpose of conserving space on the phone that I'll be transferring ...
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Lossless, graphical audio/video file editor for Mac

I often find myself needing to make simple edits to media files on my Mac. Because this media is saved in lossy formats, I try to avoid re-encoding wherever possible. These edits include: Splitting a ...
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Free Video/Image Editor

I am looking for a software package/suite that can handle editing (cropping, straightening, merging etc.) images and videos. Requirements for the software are as follows: Must be freeware, as needs ...
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Choosing a Daw for Ubuntu

I currently use Ableton Live 9 and thinking about fully switching to Ubuntu. Ableton has no support nor plans for Ubuntu or Linux, so I have to switch or Wine/VM it. I know using VM/Wine is clunky for ...
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Audio editor written in Java

I'm looking for an audio editor written entirely in Java, without any dependencies that have to be installed. A self-contained JAR file that I can run from anywhere, even on machines that do not ...
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Simplest audio editor, for Mac OS X

I simply need to record an introduction to insert at the front of a recorded audio presentation. That presentation is recorded as a .m4a file, Apple MPEG-4 audio. I just want add title info: who ...
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Windows program to fix unbalanced M4A/AAC audio files

I have an M4A file (with an AAC codec) that is presumably stereo, and that only has sound on the right side, as if all the sound is focused on one side. Is it at all possible to balance the sound out ...
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Windows program that will trim M4A/AAC files without any loss

I have some M4A audio files (with an AAC codec) that I need to perform basic trimming operations on. The problem is that, to my understanding, the few programs that support M4A/AAC files trim the ...
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Easy way to split an audio track into multiple parts?

I often need to edit an audio track by keeping only some parts of it, removing the rest, add some fade in/out, and save the whole edited track back into an audio file. I just checked Audacity, but ...
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Audio editing CLI application that can fuse multiple wav files into a new one?

Scenario With a simple tool I developed in C#, I extracted all the wav tracks contained in the BIK video files of a game using the binkconv.exe CLI tool from RAD Video Tools. In total I have ...
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Software to remove all empty space from an audio recording

I need to generate recordings of sounds made by mechanical equipment. These sounds occur randomly every few hours, and only last approximately 1-3 seconds. Ideally, I would like software that can ...
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Voice modifier software

I'm looking for a software able to modify my voice as I speak. I'm mastering rpg via Mumble and it would be quite a useful bonus to the ambiance to make me sound like a robot, for instance. So far, I ...
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Simple audio editor (to double the volume and cut)

I want to painlessly double the volume of and cut up audio files, for free on Windows 10 and/or Ubuntu. Audacity does the latter, but I'm overwhelmed attempting the first.
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My voice is naturally nasal! Is there any app to change my recorded voice?

Naturally, it seems like I speak from my nose instead of the mouth. When I record my voice for online courses, it's even worse. I really hate my recorded voice. The converted voice should not be very ...
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Audio Editing Podcatcher

I need a Podcast Manager that automatically downloads podcasts in the background to my MP3 player. I also want it to divide those podcasts into 5 minute segments, and increase the volume. I'm on ...
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Concatenate podcasts

I'm looking for a way to simply concatenate podcasts episodes from a RSS feed into a single audio file. I'm looking for cool features like adding 2 seconds of silence between each episode, or ...
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Video editing plugin for Audacity or stand alone program

I have been looking a while for some sort of video editing plugin for Audacity that would basically just let me edit the audio track of the video without having to separate the audio from the ...
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iPhone App for Stereo Audio Recording

I want to record some audio books on iPhone. I have tried several recording apps, however all of them give me a mono audio file which is a bit annoying when you listen to it with headphones, as there'...
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Video Editor able to synchronize multiple video and audio tracks for Linux

I looking for a video-editing software which is able to load multiple video and audio files, and synchronize these tracks based on the audio data, so the audio tracks match exactly to the video tracks....
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Tool to cut an audio stream at song boundaries [duplicate]

I don't have access to my Internet radio at work (no streaming services allowed), so I stream the radio at home and end up with a huge file (Ogg Vorbis). I like 90% of the music but 10% not and I ...
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Edit audio files to be repeated in an ordered way

I want a software to edit my audio files, specifically: I have some audio files (mp3) which I want to repeat every 40 secs of it (first 40 secs are repeated 3 times, then next 40 secs be repeated 3 (...