GNUsound is a multitrack sound editor for GNOME. It reads and writes many audio formats such as WAV, MP3 and FLAC through its modular system of file format drivers and can also extract the audio from video formats like MPG, WMV and AVI through the FFmpeg file format driver. It can use either OSS, ALSA or JACK for recording and playback and interfaces with the GLADSPA plugin system to provide a wide range of high-quality audio processing plugins including filters, compressors and delay effects.

The most important feature of GNUsound, however, is to stay out of your way. This feature is not so easily expressed by a laundry list of acronyms, so you'll just have to try it and see for yourself.

GNUsound is now officially a GNU package. See http://www.gnu.org/software/gnusound for more information.

This documentation is provided in order to help you get started with GNUsound. It does not exhaustively list all of GNUsounds capabilities and the ways in which functions can be combined to perform certain tasks. The best way to get familiar with the program is to experiment. Be creative.