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I'm always amazed and proud at how widely I see Audacity being used. Most recently I spent the 5 weeks as a juror on a criminal trial, and I saw Audacity installed on the prosecutor's computer.
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Correct me if I'm wrong but it can only record your input, not the other side of the conversation - if you change the setting to record from stereo then the person you're talking to on Skype just hears themselves echoing back. My personal use for audacity other than randomly playing around with audio stuff was to clean up a CD of a radio recording from a decade ago, that over time had picked up scratches and noise, a…
On Windows my sound drivers include something called stereo mix. You can record this through audacity to get their side of the conversation. To record yourself as well you need to set your mic to playback through your speakers, but then you hear yourself speaking. There may be a better way, but that's what I've always done if I needed to record on Skype.
I use Audacity all the time: with customers' permission, I will record short bits of our Skype calls if I think that later I might want to refer back to directions, requirements, etc. This saves needless note taking. Great app!
Sorry, but I haven't used Audacity in a while ... how exactly do you record Skype calls with it? Is there some sort of integration with the app or your sound card?
I love audacity, it started me and my bro off on our music recording road. My bro recently produced his album with it! "Shaky Horse" http://declandoherty.bandcamp.com/
Wow; I was one of the first developers to work on Audacity way back in 2001, but I haven't kept up with its development in a long time. It's exciting to see a new major release. I'm always amazed and proud at how widely I see Audacity being used. Most recently I spent the 5 weeks as a juror on a criminal trial, and I saw Audacity installed on the prosecutor's computer.
haberman and I first met when I started contributing to Audacity more than a decade ago. Later he helped me apply for a job at Amazon.com and we became teammates. Since then we've drifted away from Audacity development, both left Amazon to work in startups, and haberman is now at Google while I ended up at Mozilla, but we are still good friends and keep in touch -- and also debate technical minutia on HN. :)
Audacity has always been short on developers for a project with such a large userbase, so development has often been slow. But the contributor community was one of the friendliest I've been involved in, thanks in large part to the great stewardship of Audacity's creator Dominic Mazzoni. If you use Audacity, please consider checking out the code and fixing a bug or two!
> The Audacity Team is elated to announce the release of Audacity 2.0 for Windows, Mac, GNU/Linux, ... Seems weird it's specifically GNU /Linux they support, yet they can't be dependent on GNU userland or GNU libc if they support Mac.
RMS would say its weird that you think there is anything other than GNU/Linux... http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU/Linux_naming_controversy
Audacity is sweet - now if they would just get someone on board to cleanup the UI - maybe some new buttons?