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Free open-source audio editor and recorder for Windows, macOS, and Linux serving podcasters and audio professionals.

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I’ve don’t this in audacity many times, it doesn’t work as well. All the umm patterns don’t match exactly. I’ve had better overall results with erm. I haven’t used audacity in years for this, maybe they improved the feature.

Hacker NewsJun 12, 2026

Among the first examples they show Paulstretch for Live. I remember using Audacity to apply it in the past because it wasn't easily available in other DAWs :)Try slowing the PSX opening sound by 5x to 10x, you won't regret it.

Hacker NewsJun 4, 2026

i tried it. i could not find any functionality to detect silence. also no way to label selections. or do i use regions for that? it says mp3 does not support regions. no way to export a list of regions with timestamps.i spent about 15 minutes trying to figure out the above. in au...

Hacker NewsMay 25, 2026

I spend a lot of time doing this too -- cutting up band rehearsal tapes into songs and exporting all. As weird as Audacity's UI is, I haven't found anything better than it at this.

Hacker NewsMay 25, 2026

people use gimp too. and i bet there are more gimp users than audacity.as for the UI, i don't get it. what's so bad about it? and how is this one better? i looked at both and ardour too. so far audacity is the only one that has a feature to detect silence and label it. it's prett...

Hacker NewsMay 25, 2026

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