Take the best free sound editor wherever you go.
Audacity is probably the best free sound editor you can find, and now you can squeeze it onto your USB drive and take it wherever you go.
While we find the interface a little hard to get around, it's a really powerful and flexible application. Importing sound files is easy, they can just be dragged into the window, and then you can edit and manipulate it in many ways.
One basic useful tool for this is making tracks louder or quieter. You can alter the base volume of tracks in iTunes, but the actual file is not affected, and the end result is many files that play at different volumes. With Audacity, you can tweak the volume of the track so it's at a similar level to the rest of your library however loud it is. You can also use it to add fade ins and outs, cut them out altogether and add a variety of interesting effects.
You can also use Audacity to record live from whatever input you choose, and it's really easy to edit and play around with your results. Recording a speech and then adding background music is really logical, for example. Open the speech file and music file out together, edit the sound levels then merge together.
There are tons of other ways to use Audacity, it really depends on your creativity. This portable version does everything the original does, and simply requires installation onto your portable drive to run on a PC.
Audacity is great, and it's fantastic to be able to run it from a USB drive
User reviews about Audacity Portable
by Anonymous
Great Software - I've actually used it for several years now!.
wow, someone can't get the software to work so they trash the product?
Nice.Follow the instructions! You just run the executable, dummy.
If you need an icon to double click then make a shortcut to the executeable. Get a mac if you need your hand held. That was being nice.How can you not love this software?
It's free, and it works well. If you don't like this software - chances are you're not doing it right and you might not be ready for something this powerful anyway.You may have to download the encoder separately and place it in the right folder - unless that downloader they are pushing does that for you...It's been a while since I've actually downloaded it - but once you have it set up you just take the whole folder structure with you - and run the executable. It's not that difficult...One Million Stars,
Pros:
Easy to run. No install necessary.
Cons:
The only con I can see is this Free download with Softonic Downloader Nonsense. Explain how that makes anything easier than just providing a zip file for downloading? Not everyone is as stupid as the first reviewer who couldn't get the software to work you know.
Beyond that,see the review...
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by Anonymous
Doesn't work.
I installed audacity portable 2 times but there is no icon to run it. It is not in my list of programs so how am I supposed to use it if there is no way to RUN it?
Pros:
I own many audio editors but I love Audacity, I have used for years. The one thing that Audacity has that the others dont is the ability to export as a WAV or mP3 and it is awesomely simple.
Cons:
As far as Im concerned there are no cons except that there is no way to run Audacity Portable More