Star Meet Audacity, the "Gimp of Audio"
Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 7th Jun 2002 19:42 UTC
Multimedia, AV 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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wxWindows slowness on Mac OS X
by Lowell on Sat 8th Jun 2002 16:00 UTC

I tried the Windows version of Audacity at work (1GHz Pentium 3), and it seemed pretty good... I mean, great considering the cost. I need to do audio editing only about 5 times a year, and Audacity seems like it will be just fine for that. (I agree, there's no comparison to Sound Forge, or even CoolEdit Pro.)

However, I tried the Mac OS X version at home (dual G4s, 450 MHz, 1GB RAM) and it only sort of works, and when it does, it absolutely crawls. I would have to guess that wxWindows has some serious optimization issues on OS X. But I suppose I knew that after reading their website, where the OS X stuff is described as "beta". I might add, that's beta as in "gee, I think this thing pretty much almost works!", not beta as in "software is feature-complete but needs testing."