About:
Audacity is a cross-platform multitrack audio editor. It allows you to record sounds directly or to import Ogg, WAV, AIFF, AU, IRCAM, or MP3 files. It features a few simple effects, all of the editing features you should need, and unlimited undo. The audio I/O uses PortAudio, which fully supports OSS, Mac OS X CoreAudio, and Windows WMME, and can be compiled with support for ALSA and Jack.

Release focus: Major feature enhancements

Changes:
Many usability improvements have been implemented. Major improvements to some built-in effects have been made. Improved accessibility for the visually impaired has been implemented. Timer recording, auto-save, and automatic crash recovery have been introduced. Batch processing has been improved. Many bugfixes and stability improvements have been made.

Author:
Dominic Mazzoni [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.56/10.00 (55 votes)

Homepage:
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Changelog:
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/features-1.3-a
Bug tracker:
http://limpet.net/audacity/bugzilla/
Mailing list archive:
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/contact/lists

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		4 - Beta
[Intended Audience]		End Users/Desktop
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Operating System]		MacOS, MacOS X, Microsoft :: Windows, POSIX :: BSD :: FreeBSD, POSIX :: Linux
[Programming Language]		C++
[Topic]		Multimedia :: Sound/Audio, Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Analysis, Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Capture/Recording, Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Editors, Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players, Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players :: MP3

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	1.2.6	05-Jan-2007	GNU General Public License (GPL)
Development	1.3.2	05-Jan-2007	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Releases

Version	Focus	Date
1.3.2	Major feature enhancements	05-Jan-2007 15:46
1.3.0	Major feature enhancements	30-Nov-2005 09:55
1.2.2-pre1	Major feature enhancements	11-Aug-2004 05:53
1.2.0-pre4	Minor bugfixes	11-Feb-2004 04:14
1.2.0-pre3	Major bugfixes	02-Nov-2003 18:16
1.2.0-pre2	Major bugfixes	30-Sep-2003 15:57
1.2.0-pre1	Major feature enhancements	04-Aug-2003 15:50
1.1.3	Major feature enhancements	24-Mar-2003 18:44
1.1.1	Major feature enhancements	13-Nov-2002 17:46
1.1.0	Major feature enhancements	10-Jun-2002 06:11

 Articles referencing this project

• Sound and Music Software
  by Dave Phillips , in Category Reviews
  Sat, Dec 15th 2001 00:00
  

 Comments

[»] Audacity is quite powerful for a multitrack editor
by Hone Watson - Aug 12th 2006 22:57:14

It may not be ProTools but Audacity is a cool piece of software. Does what most people will need it for.

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[»] n!ce
by webdesign hamburg - Nov 3rd 2005 01:41:59

Its hard to find free audio software for osx. thank you. maybe .au support and tempo/time pitch for drum loops in the future :)

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[»] Very nice program!
by Shawn K. Quinn - Oct 28th 2003 22:35:45

This is one of the best examples of just how far free
software has come over the years. Audacity packs a lot of
punch and is easily one of the "killer apps" of the free
software revolution.

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[»] very promising
by Ben Crowell - Jul 5th 2002 11:51:24

This is a nifty project that seems to be progressing rapidly. There are a few rough edges, which isn't surprising for beta software, but in general I'm very impressed. One pleasant surprise was that Audacity was much easier to use than the non-free recording software I've tried -- isn't open-source software supposed to be user-hostile? I was able to start doing multitrack recording within five minutes, without reading the documentation. It's also very cool that it's cross-platform. Making open-source apps available on non-free OSes is a great way to spread the gospel, and personally my Mac is better suited to recording than the low-end PC I use to run Linux. Bravo!

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[»] Audacity Is Amazing!!!
by Deven Phillips, CISSP - Jul 22nd 2001 19:45:35

This is the exact piece of software I have been
looking for. It does what I need it to do, and it
works very well!! If you ever wanted to master
your own mix CDs, this program totally fits the bill.

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[»] Highly useful
by Andrew L. - Dec 1st 2004 21:45:40

I've used this to record my own mp3's of myself playing my guitar. I can take these to my friend's house and then burn them to a CD. Then I can play this CD for my friends and family. I can also import .WAV files recorded from video games emulators and then transmute them into .mp3's and put those onto CD's for playing role-playing games.

I havn't seen any bugs as of yet, and I'm glad they have a linux version, because I'll be abandoning Windows ASAP.

Overall, it's awesome. I've seen and done so many things with it (recording songs, exporting .WAV files to .mp3, recording voice-acting for Flash movies, etc...). Keep up the good work; I might just cry if it disappears.



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If you can see this, I'm probably listening to something by Koji Kondo.

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