Audacity
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Audacity, a free open-source multi-track editor, enables high-quality audio processing across platforms. Supports diverse formats, plugins, and scripting languages, offering robust features like batching, visual tools, and accessibility.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application typeApplication types
Origin
- CY flagCyprus
- European Union flagEU
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
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- Haiku
Features
Properties
- Lightweight
Features
- Multitrack editing
- Audio Recording
- Ad-free
- Mix Music
- Portable
- Remove Noise
- Track editing
- Noise Reduction
- Works Offline
- Music Recording
- Support for VST Plugins
- Audio Conversion
- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
- No registration required
- Lossless Audio
- Hardware Accelerated
- Record to tape
- Support for Android Things
- Sound Effects
- Pitch Correction
- FSA tracking
- MultiTrack
- Support for MIDI
- Data export/import
- Dark Mode
- Support for scripting
- Batch Editing
- FFMPEG support
- Macro Recording
Audacity News & Activities
Highlights All activities
Recent News
- Audacity 4.0 audio editor launches with redesigned Qt interface and new clip-editing tools
The free and open-source audio editor Audacity has officially released version 4.0, representing th...
- Audacity 3.7.5 brings Windows on ARM support and improves FLAC importer
Audacity 3.7.5 now supports Windows on ARM in Windows 11, expanding compatibility for more users. F...
- Audacity 3.7 update brings improved features, enhanced Linux compatibility, and bug fixes
The team behind Audacity has released version 3.7, bringing a series of improvements and bug fixes ...
Recent activities
amazing audio editing software
however ...
they need to revert the logo ASAP
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What is Audacity?
Audacity is an easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder for Windows, macOS, GNU/Linux and other operating systems.
- Recording from any real or virtual audio device that is available to the host system.
- Export / Import a wide range of audio formats, extensible with FFmpeg.
- High quality using 32-bit float audio processing.
- Plugin Support for multiple audio plugin formats, including VST, LV2, and AU.
- Macros for chaining commands and batch processing.
- Scripting in Python, Perl, or any other language that supports named pipes.
- Nyquist a powerful built-in scripting language that may also be used to create plugins.
- Editing multi-track editing with sample accuracy and arbitrary sample rates.
- Accessibility for VI users.
- Analysis and visualization tools to analyze audio or other signal data.
Audacity information
Developed by
CY flagMuse GroupLicensing
Open Source and Free product.Written in
C++ iconC++Rating
Average rating of 3.4 (65 ratings)Alternatives
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- English
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- Catalan; Valencian
- Corsican
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- Welsh
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Audio & Music, OS & Utilities, System & Hardware, Development, Office & ProductivityGitHub repository
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- 1809 Open Issues
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Our users have written 69 comments and reviews about Audacity, and it has gotten 2447 likes
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Comments and Reviews
I use the old 2.1.2 version that I got in 2015. Whatever they collect now I do not care. The old program works fine and I like it. It has all the functions I need. I use around 5% of it's functionality. Very useful for daily, regular sound editing.
Yeah, it didn't see a whole lot of development over the past 5-10 years. Some "under the hood" stuff, but not a ton of frontend stuff. The issues will arise if they make the improvements they are talking about. Press release is talking about development of a 3D spectrogram editable with haptic glove. It would be pretty wild to feel a spectrogram. Whether or not they will do it, or if it will actually be useful/adopted is another matter...
Was a great project until it got Aquired by MUSE, they updated their privacy policy to allow them to collect their user's data in plain text, do not use the main branch of Audacity if you don't like Spyware. Users of the Audacity community are making forks of it with the spyware removed from it.
amazing audio editing software
however ...
they need to revert the logo ASAP
FOSS, simple, intuitive - exactly what people want
Does what I need to it do.
Essential tool for any audio dev. I use it to verify the bitrate of my downloads. High quality and open source. Love it!
An audio editor that does everything.
Unfortunately, it looks like an ancient dinosaur. It's something I have to use, not because I want to use, with the alternative being Ocenaudio which is free & look and feels nice but lacks multitrack & loopback that Audacity does have.
Even the logo is ugly with pure blue headphones and some random bright red & yellow soundwave. You're with Audacity despite all the lacking design because no other have all of it's functions.