HOW TO INSTALL AUDACITY AUDIO EDITOR (MUSIC EDITOR) IN UBUNTU 16.04
HOW TO INSTALL AUDACITY AUDIO EDITOR (MUSIC EDITOR) IN UBUNTU 16.04
Introduction
In this article we are going to learn How to install audacity audio editor / music editor in Ubuntu 16.04. Audacity is a open source application used to edit audio files or music files. Audacity is an cross platform application available for almost all major operating systems like Microsoft Windows, Linux, MacOS. Audacity audio editor application was developed by audacity team and released first time on year 2000 under GNU GPLv2+ license. It supports almost all languages. Here we are going to install latest Audacity Verison 2.1.2
Features of Audacity :
- used to edit the audio files / music files
- Supports almost all kind of audio formats like mp3, wav..etc..and also can be save output audio in any audio format.
- you can use audacity application to make changes in imported audio file like reduce noise from audio file, create karaoke music of any song, reduce vocal from music file and so on.
- you can cut/split audio file & can join multiple audio files. For more information on audacity you can visit official website HERE!
Follow the below steps to Install Audacity audio editor / music editor in Ubuntu 16.04
Before we start the installation of audacity audio editor / music editor we have to install required official PPA repository as Audacity is not a part of default repository of Ubuntu 16.04. So to install PPA repository refer the below command.
elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/audacity # Install PPA repository for Audacity Audio Editor
The PPA contains the most recent release of Audacity (2.1.3 so far) since Audacity Team only provides an daily build PPA.
No updates for Ubuntu 14.04 due to old libraries (2.1.3 requires GCC >= 4.9).
For help, please use Audacity forum: http://forum.audacityteam.org/
More info: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntuhandbook1/+archive/ubuntu/audacity
Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it
gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmp5hcc5k5b/secring.gpg' created
gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmp5hcc5k5b/pubring.gpg' created
gpg: requesting key 852541CB from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: /tmp/tmp5hcc5k5b/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
gpg: key 852541CB: public key "Launchpad PPA for Panda Jim" imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg: imported: 1 (RSA: 1)
OK
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After installing the PPA repository just update the packages and repositories of ubuntu 16.04
elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get update # Update Packages & Repositories
[sudo] password for elinuxbook:
Get:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntuhandbook1/audacity/ubuntu xenial InRelease [17.6 kB]
Get:2 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease [102 kB]
Hit:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Get:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease [102 kB]
Get:5 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntuhandbook1/audacity/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages [984 B]
Get:6 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntuhandbook1/audacity/ubuntu xenial/main i386 Packages [984 B]
Get:7 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntuhandbook1/audacity/ubuntu xenial/main Translation-en [492 B]
Get:8 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease [102 kB]
Fetched 327 kB in 4s (72.6 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Now let’s go ahead and install Audacity audio recorder package using below command.
elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install audacity # Install Audacity Audio Editor / Music Editor Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following additional packages will be installed: audacity-data i965-va-driver libaacs0 libavcodec-ffmpeg56 libavformat-ffmpeg56 libavutil-ffmpeg54 libbdplus0 libbluray1 libcrystalhd3 libflac++6v5 libgme0 libgsm1 libid3tag0 liblilv-0-0 libllvm4.0 libmad0 libmodplug1 libmp3lame0 libopenjpeg5 libportsmf0v5 libsbsms10 libschroedinger-1.0-0 libserd-0-0 libshine3 libsnappy1v5 libsord-0-0 libsoundtouch1 libsoxr0 libsratom-0-0 libssh-gcrypt-4 libsuil-0-0 libswresample-ffmpeg1 libtwolame0 libva1 libvamp-hostsdk3v5 libvdpau1 libwxbase3.0-0v5 libwxgtk3.0-0v5 libx264-148 libx265-79 libxvidcore4 libzvbi-common libzvbi0 mesa-vdpau-drivers va-driver-all vdpau-driver-all vdpau-va-driver Suggested packages: ladspa-plugin libbluray-bdj firmware-crystalhd serdi sordi libfglrx-amdxvba1 libvdpau-va-gl1 nvidia-vdpau-driver nvidia-legacy-340xx-vdpau-driver The following NEW packages will be installed: audacity audacity-data i965-va-driver libaacs0 libavcodec-ffmpeg56 libavformat-ffmpeg56 libavutil-ffmpeg54 libbdplus0 libbluray1 libcrystalhd3 libflac++6v5 libgme0 libgsm1 libid3tag0 liblilv-0-0 libllvm4.0 libmad0 libmodplug1 libmp3lame0 libopenjpeg5 libportsmf0v5 libsbsms10 libschroedinger-1.0-0 libserd-0-0 libshine3 libsnappy1v5 libsord-0-0 libsoundtouch1 libsoxr0 libsratom-0-0 libssh-gcrypt-4 libsuil-0-0 libswresample-ffmpeg1 libtwolame0 libva1 libvamp-hostsdk3v5 libvdpau1 libwxbase3.0-0v5 libwxgtk3.0-0v5 libx264-148 libx265-79 libxvidcore4 libzvbi-common libzvbi0 mesa-vdpau-drivers va-driver-all vdpau-driver-all vdpau-va-driver 0 upgraded, 48 newly installed, 0 to remove and 344 not upgraded. Need to get 33.0 MB of archives. After this operation, 148 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y ----> Enter "y" to continue the installation
As you can see on above output we have successfully installed the audacity audio editor / music editor. To confirm the same you can use the below command.
elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg -l audacity # Confirm the installed Package
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-====================================-=======================-=======================-=============================================================================
ii audacity 2.1.2-1 amd64 fast, cross-platform audio editor
To open the audacity audio editor application just type audacity on shell prompt. Refer the sample output below.
elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ audacity # Open Audacity audio editor
Snap : 1
AUDACITY AUDIO EDITOR MUSIC EDITOR LOADING
Snap : 2
AUDACITY AUDIO EDITOR VERSION
Snap : 3
AUDACITY AUDIO EDITOR
You can also open the audacity music editor application graphically. Refer the snapshot below.
OPEN AUDACITY GRAPHICALLY
To uninstall the Audacity audio editor / music editor refer the below command.
elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg -r audacity # Uninstall Audacity audio editor / music editor application
(Reading database ... 174701 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing audacity (2.1.2-1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6ubuntu3.1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu5) ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.3~bzr0+16.04.20160824-0ubuntu1) ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1) ...
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