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Audacity

Audacity is a free and open-source digital audio editor and recording application software

Features

Audacity imports sounds and music, puts sound effects against individual tracks and mixes things like music tracks and podcasts together. Audacity comes with many professional editing and recording functions. It’s possible to create both live recordings as well as cut tracks. In addition, Audacity has an audio toolbox with countless effects, an equalizer and frequency analysis on board.

Audacity is a digital audio editor with 1500+ stars on GitHub and is present in Software Repositories of major Linux distributions.

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Platform

Social

     

System Requirements

#MinimumRecommended
1256MB1GB
2700MHz2GHz
#MinimumRecommended
11GB (2GB for OS X 10.7 and later or macOS)2GB (4GB for OS X 10.7 and later or macOS)
21GHz (2GHz for OS X 10.7 and later or macOS)2GHz
#MinimumRecommended
1512MB to 1GB2GB to 4GB
21GHz1GHz to 2GHz

Ratings

Aggregate
4.32 
 5

CNET4.2 
 5
based on 799 reviews
CNET4 
 5
based on professional's opinion
FileHippo7.4 
 10
based on 140 reviews
FileHorse8 
 10
based on 362 reviews
FossHub5 
 5
based on 6985 reviews
G2CROWD4.5 
 5
based on 220 reviews
Malavida8 
 10
based on 148 reviews
PCMag4 
 5
based on professional's opinion
Softonic8 
 10
based on 11915 reviews
Softpedia4.3 
 5
based on 414 reviews
SourceForge4.6 
 5
based on 304 reviews
TechRadar4.5 
 5
based on professional's opinion
TechSpot4.8 
 5
based on 14 reviews
TopTenReviews9.5 
 10
based on professional's opinion
Uptodown4.5 
 5
based on 16 reviews

Developer

The Audacity Team

Written in

C, C++, Shell, Python

Initial Release

1 June 2000

Alternatives

Digital Audio Editor

No alternative software available under 'Digital Audio Editor' category.


Notes

  • Legacy versions for Windows and mac are also available.


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