What is an alternative to Audacity?

[DouglasAWh]

This has been asked before (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1027477), but I was explicitly told to start a new thread by a moderator, so um, yeah.

[Bucky Ball]

Open a terminal, type:

audacity

When it crashes, check the terminal and post back the error it's throwing.

[DouglasAWh]

Open a terminal, type:

audacity

When it crashes, check the terminal and post back the error it's throwing.

And this is an alternative to audacity how?

UPDATE: BTW, not a bad suggestion, it's just I want people in the future searching for alternatives to actually find a valid list, if such a list exists.

[nothingspecial]

which features are you looking for ?

[DouglasAWh]

which features are you looking for ?

The ability to chop "ums" and such out of netcasts. The ability to export to flac, ogg and mp3. The ability to edit the metadata of the file.

Past that, I'm not real sure.

I know there's ardour, but I think that's too complicated for my purposes.

[vasa1]

Interesting that Audacity is so horrible for you. I hope it's not reflective of something wrong with your system.

[vasa1]

And this is an alternative to audacity how?

UPDATE: BTW, not a bad suggestion, it's just I want people in the future searching for alternatives to actually find a valid list, if such a list exists.

If you don't mind my saying so, your original post opened the door to people wanting to help you fix any issues you have with Audacity.

If you just wanted a list of alternatives, the part about "Audacity crashes all the time. It's super-irritating." would appear unnecessary.

[nothingspecial]

ffmpeg will do all that

[robert shearer]

Not from the Ubuntu repos but seems to work fine for me on 11.10...
http://www.ocenaudio.com.br/

[shantiq]

ok DouglasAWh let us be honest about this



there is no real alternative to Audacity


it does editing sound files easier than anyone else


so i would suggest fixing it on your system


most of the time it works as it is meant to so if you have bits and pieces missing maybe go that route


sox and ffmpeg from commandline might/will do all it does i guess but huge learning curve && will always be clumsier



so i back Bucky Ball's suggestion

show the guys what is missing and mayhaps get it fixed


Audacity is like a main organ for sound.... cant really live without it