My 7 Favorite Open Source Programs

Beginning today I will be counting down my seven favorite open source software. I will discuss one program each day ending next Saturday with my all-time favorite. Each day I will discuss how I use it, and whether I use it at home, work, or both.

Number 7: Audacity.

Audacity is a multi-track audio recording and editing program that is very popular with beginning podcasters. Available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.  Audacity is free software, developed by a group of volunteers and distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). Wikipedia states Audacity was started in the fall of 1999 by Dominic Mazzoni and Roger Dannenberg at Carnegie Mellon University. The program was released on May 28, 2000.  Audacity won the SourceForge 2007 and 2009 Community Choice Award for Best Project for Multimedia.

Audacity. In Wikipedia. Retrieved August 2, 2015, from

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audacity_(audio_editor)

I have used Audacity both at work and home.  I find it is an excellent tool for improving the audio tracks for any movie you are making.  Especially if it is something, you are going to upload to the Internet.