Exporting files
Will the applications let you share your creations?
LMMS leads the way in its approach towards collaboration. It provides a platform where users can share their work with the rest of the community. This can be anything – a custom theme, tutorials, presets, projects or samples. The projects and samples are split across different categories, such as brass, drums, piano, fantasy, blues, classical, house and more. The community can give a rating and also provide comments, helping you to perfect your masterpiece.
With Ardour you can easily create a backup of your current session and then share it with your peers. If your work utilises external media files, you can choose the option to copy them to your current session. You can also create a compressed archive of your session by clicking File>archive. The compressed tarball contains all the audio, MIDI, plugin-settings for the session.
If your project comprises more than one track, Audacity by default will merge them down to a single track when exporting to an audio file. You must choose the File>export>export Multiple option and individually select the different tracks. The application defaults to a bit rate of 128kbps for MP3 files, but it might result in very large file sizes depending on your project. You can tweak the bit rate, or optionally extract to a different format such as WAV, FLAC or OGG, depending on your use case.
Ocenaudio enables you to directly export audio to an FTP server from the graphical interface itself. It also provides all the other options, such as exporting audio from the selected portion, or define the bit rate for each output format – whether MP3, OGG, etc.