# Recommend an easy audio editing software

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-an-easy-audio-editing-software/762012>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 7, 2016, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-an-easy-audio-editing-software/762012 "2016-08-07T03:38:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2016, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-an-easy-audio-editing-software/762012/1 "2016-08-07T03:38:11Z")

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My needs:

Create clips of audio from an existing file. I may only need 30 seconds of a particular song.

Adjust the volume. Different files have various sound levels and I want to take some of them down.

That’s basically it so I’d like something really easy to operate.

I’m running System 7 (ha!).

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**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2016, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-an-easy-audio-editing-software/762012/2 "2016-08-07T04:15:25Z")

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[Audacity](http://www.audacityteam.org/). Totally free, incredibly powerful, easy to use.

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**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2016, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-an-easy-audio-editing-software/762012/3 "2016-08-07T04:18:20Z")

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Yep. I use audacity to make minor adjustments to audio files of all kinds, and it’s great. You get what you pay for (it’s free) but it’s well featured and fairly intuitive.

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**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2016, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-an-easy-audio-editing-software/762012/4 "2016-08-07T04:23:51Z")

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Thank you! I’m downloading it now.

eta: The icon in the task manager for the setup shows the status. Cool.

Looks like it’s ready.