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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License

GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPLv2)

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User Reviews

  • I am too much frustrated with it.would you please provide tutorials to export in 5.1 AAC audio with neroAAC or any other other AAC encoder. It crash too much when working on 5.1 audio or 7.1.
  • Version 2.2.1 removed Leveler and now MUTED TRACKS UN-MUTE THEMSELVES IF I SOLO ANY FOR FURTHER INSPECTION. This has not changed in 2.2.2 I could handle you removing solo-ing multiple tracks at once, but NOT the un-muting of tracks that I manually muted. They shouldn't un-mute unless I hit instruct them to, yet there they go: making a huge sound mess after I was inspecting something and working on it SO THAT I CAN ACTUALLY MIX THINGS PROPERLY. Honestly, why did you remove the actual usability of such a basic tool? Why even keep it as an option if in the end it means nothing? AT LEAST ADD AN OPTION FOR IT TO BE OF USE IN USER PREFERENCES The rest of the software is pretty much exactly as it used to be. There's really no big improvement other than visuals. Which personally idgaf about even half as much as I do about being able to actually mix.
  • Merde, investissez quelques dollars dans un designer... Parce que l'ergonomie est à chier !!! Mais sans parler d'ergonomie, vos ZOOMs, vos dépladcement dans le fichier, c'est pourri ! Connaissez-vous Soundforge ?? Merde, trouvez 10 000 $ et payez un mec capable de faire un truc ergonomique !!!
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    1 user found this review helpful.
  • It is good version, but has some bugs. I downloaded the latest perfect working version of the Audacity software here www.newaudacity2015.com. It works like a charm
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Additional Project Details

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