Audacity facts for kids
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Audacity 1.3.4 beta on Ubuntu
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| Developer(s) | The Audacity Team |
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| Initial release | May 2000 |
| Written in | C and C++ (using the wxWidgets toolkit) |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Available in | Over 20 languages |
| Type | Digital audio editor |
| License | GNU General Public License |
Audacity is a free and open-source digital audio editor and recording application software, available for Windows, macOS, Linux, and other Unix-like 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 May 16, 2020, it is the most popular download from FossHub, with over 90.3 million downloads since March 2015. Previously, downloads were served from Google Code and SourceForge, with a combined total in excess of 110 million downloads. Audacity won the SourceForge 2007 and 2009 Community Choice Award for Best Project for Multimedia.
Features
- multi-track mixing
- import and export of WAV, AIFF, MP3
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