Audacity (audio editor)
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Audacity 2.1.2
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| Developer(s) | The Audacity Team |
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| Initial release | May 28, 2000 |
| Stable release | 2.1.2 (20 January 2016) |
| Preview release | None |
| Repository | github |
| Development status | Active |
| Written in | C, C++ (using the wxWidgets toolkit) |
| Operating system | Windows, macOS/OS X, Linux, Unix |
| Platform | IA-32, x86-64, PowerPC |
| Size | 34.2 MB: Windows 41.1 MB: macOS/OS X] |
| Available in |
35 languages
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| Type | Digital audio editor |
| License | GNU GPLv2+ |
| Website | audacityteam |
Audacity is a free open source digital audio editor and recording computer software application, available for Windows, OS X, Linux and other operating systems. Audacity was started in the fall of 1999 by Dominic Mazzoni and Roger Dannenberg at Carnegie Mellon University and was released on May 28, 2000 as version 0.8.
As of October 10, 2011, it was the 11th most popular download from SourceForge, with 76.5 million downloads. Audacity won the SourceForge 2007 and 2009 Community Choice Award for Best Project for Multimedia. In March 2015 hosting was moved to FossHub and by December 31, 2016 it had exceeded 32 million downloads there.
In addition to recording audio from multiple sources, Audacity can be used for post-processing of all types of audio, including podcasts by adding effects such as normalization, trimming, and fading in and out. Audacity has also been used to record and mix entire albums, such as by Tune-Yards. It is also currently used in the UK OCR National Level 2 ICT course for the sound creation unit.
Audacity's features include:
Audacity supports the LV2 open standard for plugins and can therefore load software like Calf Studio Gear.
Audacity supports only 32-bit or 64-bit VST audio effect plug-ins, depending on which architecture it was built for, but not both at the same time. It does not support instrument VST (VSTi) plugins.
Audacity lacks dynamic equalizer controls and real time effects while recording.
MIDI files can only be displayed.
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