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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I did my last project using Audacity 0.98 and didn't have the stereo issues you mention, but I did have them with the previous versions I had tried (to the point of saving projects, then reopening them to find all my tracks converted to unlinked mono tracks.) Of course it's no Cool Edit Pro, but neither was Cool Edit 1.0 when it appeared 5 or 6 years ago. Remember its lame "FFT filters" that passed for EQ until 1.5 or so? I don't even remember if CE2K has parametric EQ, it might only be in Pro.
Anyway, 1.0 level is where Audacity is now. It's not a product for professionals, any more than Cool Edit was back then. But the state of the art has changed, and it is further along in other ways (multitracking for example, and dealing with envelopes easily) than the equivalent Windows software was back in the 1.0 days over there. 1.1 supports LADSPA and with the amount of work going on with that stuff, I really think it's only a matter of time because it does become the "GIMP of audio", even if never it never catches up with the Cool Edits and Sound Forges of the world.
For my part, I wish GNU Octal, the Buzz clone, weren't a dead project. More to the point, I wish I had the time to resurrect it