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Killer OSX Native Apps (Audio)


Audacity

Developer: Home Page License: GPL Rating:

Audacity is a free audio editor. You can record sounds, play sounds, import and export WAV, AIFF, and MP3 files, and more. Use it to edit your sounds using Cut, Copy and Paste (with unlimited Undo), mix tracks together, or apply effects to your recordings. It also has a built-in amplitude envelope editor, a customizable spectrogram mode and a frequency analysis window for audio analysis applications. Built-in effects include Bass Boost, Wahwah, and Noise Removal, and it also supports VST plug-in effects. [more]

EasyWMA

Developer: Home Page License: Donateware Rating:

EasyWMA allows you to convert wma audio files to mp3 so that you can play your favorite songs in iTunes or any other player on your Mac. [more]

Lame

Developer: Home Page License: GPL Rating:

LAME is an educational tool to be used for learning about MP3 encoding. The goal of the LAME project is to use the open source model to improve the psycho acoustics, noise shaping and speed of MP3. LAME is not for everyone - it is distributed as source code only and requires the ability to use a C compiler. NB. The link provided is for a OSX Binary distribution and has instructions on the page for use. [more]

Ogg Drop

Developer: Home Page License: Freeware Rating:

Ogg Drop is a freeware application that will encode AIFF (.aif) sound files and Audio CD tracks into an Ogg Vorbis (.ogg) file. Ogg Vorbis is an alternative to many other encoding formats such as MP3. It provides higher quality output, and is entirely free! [more]

QT AC3 Codec

Developer: Home Page License: GPL Rating:

This is a QuickTime component which allows the playback of AC3 audio in AVI files. The component uses the liba52 library for the AC3 decompressing, you can get more information on this library at http://liba52.sourceforge.net/ [more]

QTOggVorbis

Developer: Home Page License: Freeware Rating:

Add-on for Quicktime to play .ogg files [more]


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