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 September 22, 2022, Audacity is the most popular download at FossHub, with over 114.1 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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