It is currently used in the Sound Creation unit of the UK OCR National Level 2 ICT course. It has been used to record and mix entire albums, such as by Tune-Yards. In addition to recording audio from multiple sources, Audacity can be used for post-processing of all types of audio, including effects such as normalization, trimming, and fading in and out. In April 2021, it was announced that Muse Group (owners of MuseScore and Ultimate Guitar) would acquire the Audacity trademark and continue to develop the application, which remains free and open source. Most of its changes were eventually incorporated into the mainline version and the fork ended. In 2019, then-lead developer James Crook started the fork DarkAudacity to experiment with a new look and other UX changes. It was previously served from Google Code and SourceForge, where it was downloaded over 200 million times.Īudacity won the SourceForge 20 Community Choice Award for Best Project for Multimedia. Īs of December 6, 2022, Audacity is the most popular download at FossHub, with over 114.2 million downloads since March 2015. The project was started in the fall of 1999 by Dominic Mazzoni and Roger Dannenberg at Carnegie Mellon University, and released on May 28, 2000, as version 0.8. GPL v2 or Later, CC-BY-3.0 (documentation) Īudacity is a free and open-source digital audio editor and recording application software, available for Windows, macOS, Linux, and other Unix-like operating systems. Afrikaans, Arabic, Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), Corsican, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Marathi, Norwegian ( Bokmål), Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese and Welsh.

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