I’ve got some poorly recorded MP3s of people speaking. I want to try to make them a little easier to hear. In Windows I’d reach for Sound Forge. How about in Linux?

1. Search Google for “sound forge equivalent for Linux.”

2. Find several references to “Wave Forge.”
3. Find “Wave Forge” hasn’t been updated this century. Move on.
4. Decide to try Audacity because it’s in the back of your head, and Ardour because you found a bunch of links to it somewhere.
5. yum install audacity ardour. That was easy.
6. Run Ardour. Tells you it needs JACK. WTF is a JACK? Move on.
7. Run Audacity. Loads. GUI looks a little silly compared to Sound Forge, but it looks functional enough.
8. Try to load the MP3 file. Get told this version doesn’t have MP3 support.

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