Overall Satisfaction with Audacity
As a digital media arts instructor, we utilize Audacity as a secondary audio editing software for video production work. In conjunction with other professional audio production software that can feel bloated or overly complicated for small tasks, Audacity fills the gap for projects when we need quick and efficient tweaks and cuts, rather than full audio engineering work.
- Easy to learn user interface.
- Reliable
- Compact (small install size and can be loaded onto a flash drive).
- Cannot natively export audio to MP3: requires download of LAME MP3 encoder to enable that functionality.
- Multi-track recording can be difficult (clunky) to work with.
- Open Source Software (free to download and use).
Depending on the task being accomplished, we utilize different audio editing software for each purpose. Audition and AVID ProTools are our go-to software for advanced audio editing projects. GarageBand is great for mid-level difficulty multi-track productions (1-3 day basic projects). Audacity is our recommendation for quick edits and for those who are not looking to purchase expensive software.