Digital Sound Editing Under Unix?

Jed1Mnd asks: "I have recently set out to find some decent audio manipulation software for Linux, with out that much luck. I have a friend who is currently using CoolEdit on Windows 98SE is running into issue with performance. We are looking at Linux because of the better IO, memory management and support for file systems like xfs. However like I said I am having trouble find a decent replacement for CoolEdit. I was hoping that the Slashdot crowd would know of a product (commercial or non-commercial) that would fit this situation."

Comments

Snd?

[Ridge2001]

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2001/10/05/s nd_partone.html
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2001/10/18/s nd_parttwo.html

linuxsound.at

[Sam Lowry]

Try http://www.linuxsound.at/

and... tell yoru friend that such a serious move requires not only the software to change but her habits, methods and skillset to change also...

Audacity

[ratatosk]

As always, SourceForge is your friend ;-)

You might want to try Audacity - it gives the win32-only packages a real run for their money:

Audacity

(and it's available for linux, freebsd, macos and windoze)

/wulff

Re:Audacity

[ConceptJunkie]

I've done quite a bit with Audacity the 0.9.6 and 0.9.7 beta versions under Windows 2000. Aside of a few interface quirks, I am extremely pleased with the results. I can slice-n-dice several hundred megabyte WAV files with impunity and then save it all to a completed file. I've been digitizing old audio tapes and Audacity has made it really easy to edit out dead spots, remove clicks and pops, adjust sound levels, etc.

And it's GPL! Much recommended.