Now and again you come across a gem that fulfills everything that your looking for in a program.  Here is one that I have discovered, I was looking to make a video and was adding some backing track music, but the problem that I had was that the video was longer than my music.

I really needed something that would allow me to loop the music to make it longer and also to remove the parts of the song that I did not want.  I also needed the option to add extra track and to basically create my own “mash up” myself.

This program does exactly that and one of the extras bonuses is that it is FREE as well.  I was dubious about this program so I rang a brother of mine who has a professional recording studio in London you can check out his site at www.gerrydiver.co.uk to see what he thought of it.  He told me for what I want it for it will do everything plus loads more.  Been using it a while now, still discovering extra features in this program every day and so far been very happy with it.

About Audacity

Audacity is a free, easy-to-use and multilingual audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. You can use Audacity to:

• Record live audio.
• Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs.
• Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WAV or AIFF sound files.
• Cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together.
• Change the speed or pitch of a recording.
• And more! See the complete list of features. 

About Free Software

Audacity is free software, developed by a group of volunteers and distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

Free software is not just free of cost (like "free beer"). It is free as in freedom (like "free speech"). Free software gives you the freedom to use a program, study how it works, improve it and share it with others. For more information, visit the Free Software Foundation.

Programs like Audacity are also called open source software, because their source code is available for anyone to study or use. There are thousands of other free and open source programs, including the Firefox web browser, the OpenOffice.org office suite and entire Linux-based operating systems such as Ubuntu.

Features

This is a list of features in Audacity, the free audio editor. For more information on how to use these features, go to the help pages.

Recording

Audacity can record live audio through a microphone or mixer, or digitize recordings from cassette tapes, vinyl records, or minidiscs. With some sound cards, it can also capture streaming audio.

• Record from microphone, line input, or other sources.
• Dub over existing tracks to create multi-track recordings.
• Record up to 16 channels at once (requires multi-channel hardware).
• Level meters can monitor volume levels before, during, and after recording.