Audacity

Screen shot of audacity running on the OLPC.

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

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.

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.

Enabling mp3 support

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

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.