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Audacity is a free, easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems.

Audacity is free software, developed by a group of volunteers and distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). Programs like Audacity are also called open source software, because their source code is available for anyone to study or use. There are thousands of other free and open source programs, including the Firefox web browser, the LibreOffice or Apache OpenOffice office suites and entire Linux-based operating systems such as Ubuntu

Features

  • Record live audio
  • Record computer playback on any Windows Vista or later machine
  • Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs
  • Edit WAV, AIFF, FLAC, MP2, MP3 or Ogg Vorbis sound files
  • AC3, M4A/M4R (AAC), WMA and other formats supported using optional libraries
  • Cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together
  • Numerous effects including change the speed or pitch of a recording
  • And more!

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Categories

Audio Editing, Audio Mixers, Audio Analysis, Audio Recording, Digital Audio Workstations (DAW)

License

GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPLv2)

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  • siiviis Posted 2025-08-24
    Something about this program, seems to have fallen off of a cliff face. The concepts of being available and reliable do not mesh together well - or at all - in today's world. This program, while still having earned some respect from the past, is a bad time.
  • jgc7 Posted 2025-01-25
    Free and good. It would be good to have a stereo to mono feature and to edit the timeline even while paused.
  • kaedeseto Posted 2023-01-02
    Great program. Easy to use, while directing you to perform the necessary requests.
  • dminhhoang26 Posted 2021-11-01
    helpful for me
  • hemantbelsare Edited 2021-09-15
    I have heard a lot about Audacity. Today trying it myself
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Operating Systems

BSD, Linux, Mac, Windows

Languages

Afrikaans, Arabic, Basque (Euskara), Belarusian, Bengali, Bosnian, Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, Georgian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Macedonian, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese

Intended Audience

End Users/Desktop

User Interface

Carbon (Mac OS X), GTK+, Win32 (MS Windows), wxWidgets, X Window System (X11)

Programming Language

C++

Related Categories

C++ Audio Editing Software, C++ Audio Mixers, C++ Audio Analysis Software, C++ Audio Recording Software, C++ Digital Audio Workstations (DAW)

Registered

2000-05-28
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