Audacity

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Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds, which works on the OLPC using build 650.

Contents 1 Possible uses 2 Installation 3 Enabling mp3 support 4 External Links

[edit] Possible uses

Audacity would make an excellent tool for citizen journalism... As a radio journalist, all you would need is an OLPC, with Audacity and an FTP client installed, to create radio packages.

[edit] Installation

To install Audacity, go to the Terminal activity, and type

su -

to become root user. Enter the root password if asked to, then type

yum install audacity

• Answer y to any installation questions. The installation typically requires about 7MB space.
• Type

exit

To stop being root user, then type

audacity

to launch Audacity. You will be asked to choose a language, then the application will run.

[edit] Enabling mp3 support

It should be possible to install LAME lib files for mp3 support within Audacity, but I haven't managed it yet.

[edit] External Links

• [http://audacity.sourceforge.net/] Main Audacity website.
• [http://olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?topic=801.0] Thread on the olpcnews forum about installing Audacity on the olpc.