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Alternative to Audacity (Free)

+1 to this. Audacity is a dead project. Unfortunately, I don't know of any free audio editors for Windows. There are a few cheap ones on the mac, but for the most part anything useful costs money...

I hope someone can prove me wrong.
 
I wasn't aware Audacity was dead. Are you meaning on the Windows platform? I think I remember seeing a release announcement for Audacity just a couple of months ago mentioning Windows 7 support in the changelog, maybe still in beta though. I've used Audacity on Linux for recording vinyl a few times and it worked as it was supposed to for my application. Would be a shame if it died, and kind of surprising as well.
 
Sorry can't give you any good free audio editors. I've never found one that wasn't garbage. If you like I can suggest some that aren't OMGWTFBBQ expensive, but reasonably priced is as good as I can fo.
 
"zapping/clicking noises all through my recordings"

Maybe your soundcard is the issue and not audacity because I don't have that issue.
 
The only other freeware app I've used is Wavosaur - but settled back to using audacity when I needed a different audio editor. Though I've never actually recorded anything into it. I've only used either as a wav editor.

There is also Reaper, but its not really "freeware" - and I don't think it aims to be a wave editor.
(and I found the user interface completely confusing :()

I'd be willing to bet the problem is not specifically with Audacity - but more like buffer settings or driver issues. I haven't used audacity in a while, so I'm not sure what options are in their software. Can you test using sound recorder?
 
A person I know was getting clicks and pops when playing MP3s on his soundcard but not mb audio and it was caused by power saving mode in Windows. Turned that off and no more issues.
 
Is that wavepad free or what? I checked the site and only see a pay-for version. I need an audio editor that can batch process audio files. I need to adjust the volume output on near 1000 files and want to process them all at once and not one at a time like I have to do in audacity. Goldwave claims it can do that but it is not free.
 
I urge you to look for any other possible issues... I recently used Audacity (1.3 beta...always be willing to look for the betas too, as sometimes the stable is really out of date!) to help my father transition some LPs to WAV > FLAC for storage and it worked just great. Check the new version and look for any errors from other sources if you can, as from my experience Audacity has been excellent. Even amongst home-user/intermediate payware that offers some of the same options, I've always found Audacity to provide better features and compatibility, especially with plugins and whatnot (though, not always as easy/user friendly). I've even been told that there are some professional-level users who choose it because of its "complete control over what you're doing" elements; if you have the knowledge, you can really do some awesome stuff that otherwise would require a pro-level $Thousand+ software toolkit.
 
Yea, there are a ton of free plugins for audacity to make it do all kinds of crazy stuff. Some that can destroy your speakers/headphones if you are not careful with them. I have quite a few plugins installed.

Here I am looking for an audio editor with batch processing and all along it can be done with audacity, as I figured out today. Just had to create a Chain command and then go file>Chain>select correct chain>Apply to Files>navigate to files you want to batch process>OK>done.
 
It's probably your card/settings. I've used Audacity to record with both professional and consumer cards on many different systems.

You have likely either a bitrate issue or some sort of other problem. Those cards are both gaming cards as well, and creative (non-emu) cards are incredibly finicky with recording. There used to be separate drivers developed by people just to make the audigy cards not suck.
 
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