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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

License

GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPLv2)

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  • kostyantyn Posted 2020-02-02
    just ok
  • musiclife Posted 2016-08-14
    Hi i love this software its simple and sweet i get to master it easily from a course name audacityflex(.)com I got 100 super awesome sound effects. this really help me starting from basic to advance with just 9 videos and sound effects. I got all this on a special for 10. Do google it. Audacity is a free software one of the best by far. Do take advantage of this
    1 user found this review helpful.
  • reddad Posted 2016-03-04
    Not so useful. But support is the best.
    1 user found this review helpful.
  • code-promo Posted 2015-11-07
    A great audio editor Simply the BEST Very good ! ;)
    1 user found this review helpful.
  • egdv Edited 2015-10-06
    glencg - I'm uncertain what version of Audacity you're using that does not allow you save as an MP3 ? I must admit, I did struggle in the beginning, but I discovered if you "export" (under the "File" tag), a window opens with many options. Click on MP3 and WHAMO !
    1 user found this review helpful.
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Operating Systems

Linux, BSD, Mac, Windows

Languages

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

Intended Audience

End Users/Desktop

User Interface

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

Programming Language

C++

Related Categories

C++ Audio Editing Software, C++ Audio Mixers, C++ Audio Analysis Software, C++ Audio Recording Software

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2000-05-28
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