Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 7th Jun 2002 19:42 UTC
Audacity is a multitrack/recording free audio editor. It started a few years back as a simple sound editor, but since then it has evolved in a powerfull modern editor, by supporting multi-track recording. The stable 1.0 version was released only a few days ago.
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Ausio CDs have skipped on my Windows installations, too. That was when I discovered that playing audio CDs does indeed use the system processor and OS (WHY? - doesn't the drive handle audio cd playback on its own?).
MP3s have skipped on me plenty (though not so much in BeOS even when not in real-time audio mode). Like while browsing web sites. Amazing how much processor time web browsing can eat (especially with browsers bloated as IE and NS).
Windows, at least any DOS kernel version, has always sucked at multi-tasking during any I/O activity - try accessing floppies while doing other simple tasks: try formatting a floppy and working with any other program at the same time. hah hah hah. NT has always been a bit better at this and I have to admit that XP on my 500Mhz system seems to handle I/O functions almost as well as BeOS (my other OS), but that's on an all SCSI system with no FDD drive (my LS-120 is IDE, so maybe XP sucks with FDD controller access, still). I know NT kernel and Win9x are very different animals at this level. XP is actually a lot less irritating than WinDOS variants.
Anyone noticed how much slower at disk I/O Mac OS X is compared to Mac OS 9 or earlier? My USB floppy drive CRAWLS in OS X!! At least I can multi-task, though...
BTW: people endlessly talk about BeOS for a reason: It is compelling!