Audacity
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Audacity is a cross-platform audio editing application.
Installation
USE flags
USE flags for media-sound/audacity Free crossplatform audio editor
alsa
|
Add support for media-libs/alsa-lib (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) |
audiocom
|
Enable integrated uploading to audio.com |
doc
|
Add extra documentation (API, Javadoc, etc). It is recommended to enable per package instead of globally |
ffmpeg
|
Enable ffmpeg/libav-based audio/video codec support |
flac
|
Add support for FLAC: Free Lossless Audio Codec |
id3tag
|
Enables ID3 tagging with id3tag library |
ladspa
|
Enable the ability to support ladspa plugins |
lv2
|
Add support for Ladspa V2 |
mad
|
Add support for mad (high-quality mp3 decoder library and cli frontend) |
mpg123
|
Use media-sound/mpg123 instead of media-libs/libmad for decoding MPEG decoding |
ogg
|
Add support for the Ogg container format (commonly used by Vorbis, Theora and flac) |
opus
|
Enable Opus audio codec support |
portmixer
|
Enable the internal portmixer feature |
sbsms
|
Enables sbsms library support for slower, more accurate pitch and tempo changing |
twolame
|
Enables twolame support (MPEG Audio Layer 2 encoder) |
vamp
|
Enables vamp plugins support (Audio analysing plugins) |
vorbis
|
Add support for the OggVorbis audio codec |
wavpack
|
Add support for wavpack audio compression tools |
Before installing Audacity, be sure to specify an audio backend via the appropriate USE flag. Available backends are alsa
, jack
, and oss
.
Emerge
root #
emerge --ask media-sound/audacity
See also
- Music production — Gentoo can be a good platform for music production.