Audacity: A Free, Cross-Platform Digital Audio Editor Version 1.2.1 For changelog, see the bottom of this document. WWW: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ Email: audacity-help@lists.sourceforge.net Lead Developers: Matt Brubeck Joshua Haberman Dominic Mazzoni (project leader) Active Developers: James Crook Vaughan Johnson Markus Meyer Shane Mueller Tony Oetzmann Developers William Bland Vince Busam Brian Gunlogson Greg Mekkes Augustus Saunders Other Contributors: Dave Beydler Jason Cohen Roger Dannenberg Dave Fancella Steve Harris Daniel James Steve Jolly Daniil Kolpakov Robert Leidle Logan Lewis Abe Milde Monty Paul Nasca Jason Pepas Mark Phillips Alexandre Prokoudine Jonathan Ryshpan Juhana Sadeharju Patrick Shirkey Mark Tomlinson David Topper Rudy Trubitt Tom Woodhams Otto Wyss The Audacity Logo: Harvey Lubin http://www.agrapha.com/ Special Thanks: The wxWidgets Team The Ogg Vorbis Team Rob Leslie (libmad) Ross Bencina and Phil Burk (PortAudio) Erik de Castro Lopo (libsndfile) Verilogix, Inc. ------------------------------------------------------------- This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program (in a file called LICENSE.txt); if not, go to http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html or write to Free Software Foundation, Inc. 59 Temple Place - Suite 330 Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA ------------------------------------------------------------- Source code to this program is always available; for more information visit our website at: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ Audacity is built upon other free libraries; some of these libraries may have come with Audacity in the lib-src directory. Others you are expected to install first if you want Audacity to have certain capabilities. Most of these libraries are not distributed under the terms of the GPL, but rather some other free, GPL-compatible license. Specifically: wxWidgets: LGPL Cross-platform GUI library - must be downloaded and compiled separately. expat: BSD-like license. Provides XML parsing. Included with Audacity iAVC: LGPL Part of the code to the AVC Compressor effect. Included with Audacity. libid3tag: GPL Reads/writes ID3 tags in MP3 files. Optional separate download as part of libmad. libmad: GPL Decodes MP3 files. Optional separate download. libnyquist: BSD-like license. Functional language for manipulating audio; available within Audacity for effects processing. libogg: BSD-like license. Optional separate download, along with libvorbis. libresample: LGPL High-quality audio resampling. libsndfile: LGPL Reads and writes uncompressed PCM audio files. Included with Audacity. libvorbis: BSD-like license. Decodes and encodes Ogg Vorbis files. Optional separate download. For more information, see the documentation inside each library's source code directory. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Additional copyright information: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nyquist Copyright (c) 2000-2002, by Roger B. Dannenberg All rights reserved. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. Redistributions of source code must retain the copyright notice, the list of conditions, and the disclaimer, all three of which appear below under "COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE INFORMATION FOR XLISP." Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the copyright notice, the list of conditions, and the disclaimer, all three of which appear below under "COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE INFORMATION FOR XLISP," in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. Neither the name of Roger B. Dannenberg, Carnegie Mellon University, nor the names of any contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission. COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE INFORMATION FOR XLISP (part of Nyquist): Copyright (c) 1984-2002, by David Michael Betz All rights reserved. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. Neither the name of David Michael Betz nor the names of any contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. ------------------------------------------------------------- Compilation instructions: First you must download wxWidgets from: http://www.wxWidgets.org/ If you install the RPM, make sure you install the devel RPM as well, otherwise, you won't be able to compile Audacity from source. To compile on Linux, Mac OS X, and other Unix systems, simply execute these commands: ./configure make make install # as root To see compile-time options you can set, you can type "./configure --help". If you want to do any development, you might want to generate a configure cache and header dependencies: ./configure -C make dep To compile on Windows using MSVC++, please follow the instructions found in compile.txt in the "win" subdirectory. For more information on compilation (CodeWarrior for Mac is also supported) please email audacity-help@lists.sourceforge.net ------------------------------------------------------------- Known issues/problems: * Audacity can import and display MIDI files, but they cannot be played or edited. * The About window does not display correctly in locales with non-Western character sets. * The Change Pitch effect crashes when used with tracks that have 96 KHz sample rates. * Windows only: Audacity crashes when using the Time Track "Set Rate" command. * Windows only: If you installed one of the 1.1.x beta versions, you must uninstall it before installing Audacity 1.2. (You do not need to uninstall Audacity 1.2 or 1.0 releases.) * Linux only: Recording in full duplex on some Linux systems causes mono recordings to sound slowed-down. * Mac OS X only: On some Mac OS X systems, starting Audacity causes USB audio devices such as the Griffin iMic to change their settings. The settings can be changed back with Apple's "Audio MIDI Setup" utility after Audacity has been started. * Mac OS X only: Audacity cannot work with files or folders that are contained inside folders with international characters (accent marks, etc.) in their names. ------------------------------------------------------------- Changes in 1.2.1: * The following translations have been added or updated: Finnish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Russian. * Fix a bug that could cause data to be lost when pasting audio from one project into another, after the first project has been saved and closed. * Fix a possible crash when opening or resizing the Equalization window, especially when using large system fonts. * Don't allow percentages less than -100% in Change Pitch/Speed/Tempo effects (fixes a possible crash). * Fix a crash when the temporary directory is not available on startup. * Correctly load ID3 tags saved in Audacity project files. * On Linux and OS X, store lockfiles in the temp directory instead of the user's home directory. This fixes problems in lab environments where users have restricted or network-mounted home directories. * Fix a bug that prevented Nyqui...
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