Audacity® is free, open source, cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds. A free audio editor and recorder. Audacity® is a complex tool, you can achieve a lot of things but still, unless youre an audio engineer, a passionate or advanced user, you have to spend some time with the help files. I believe most (novice) users use this software to perform only one or a few functions. For those who never used this program before, I thought it might be a good idea to list a couple of things that Audacity(R) can accomplish. Features: For more information on these features, see the Audacity Manual. Recording Audacity can record live audio through a microphone or mixer, or digitize recordings from other media. With some sound cards, and on any recent version of Windows, Audacity can also capture streaming audio. Device Toolbar manages multiple recording and playback devices. Level meters can monitor volume levels before, during and after recording. Clipping can be displayed in the ...