Audacity began as a fairly simple to use audio editor. In its beta days, it still had fewer glitches than most audio editors have in their first several editions, which is why Audacity remains one of today's most popular audio editors, and still maintains a free version that doesn't take away all of your powers just because you don't pay a lot of money for it.

As with all beta versions, people reported back their experiences so that the program could become more stabilized over time. The original beta came with everything you've come to know and love about Audacity. You could create live recordings, convert old audio recordings to newer formats, cut audio recordings so that any filler was edited out, etc.

Mp3 editing is easy with this version. Just drag your files to get them open in your Audacity program and then work with them on what you need. You can create fades easily and start in one format and then save in another, which increases the way you're able to store your audio as well.

A large variety of formats are supported in the beta version and you don't have to work with just live recordings. You can use older Mp3s just as easily and add as many sound effects as you want. There are hundreds of sound effects to choose from, even in the beta version, each of them something that can make your audio files more exciting. One of the most important portion of the program is the preview feature, which lets you hear your completed creation before saving it to disc. This saves you a lot of time as well, so you don't have to save audio, listen, and then possibly have to delete and re-record.

Audacity remains one of the Internet's most trusted and useful audio editor programs.