Audacity
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 Audacity Title Screen | |||
| Latest Version: | 3.7.4 | ||
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| Release Date: | 2025-06-10[1] | ||
| Company: | Muse Group | ||
| Development Status: | Active | ||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||
| Developer(s): | Dominic Mazzoni, Roger Dannenberg | ||
| Interface: | GUI | ||
| Language: | C, C++ | ||
| Open Source: | Open | ||
| Source Availability: | Yes | ||
| License: | GPL3 | ||
| Type: | Audio Recorder, Audio Editor | ||
| Relevant Engine: | N/A | ||
| Platform: | Windows, Mac, Linux | ||
| Localization: | English, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Chinese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish | ||
| Website: | https://www.audacityteam.org/ | ||
Description
Audacity is the world’s most popular free software for recording and editing audio. So if you’re producing music, a podcast, or just playing around with audio, Audacity is for you. It is available to download as a desktop app for Windows, macOS and Linux.
Audacity is for anyone who wants to get creative with sound. It’s also the perfect tool for anyone who needs to quickly edit or export audio, for any reason.
Here are a few of the most common ways Audacity is used every day:
- Podcasters recording and editing spoken content. Audacity is the world’s most popular app for podcasters.
- Musicians and bedroom producers, who can edit multiple-parts, mix and add simple effects in an app that’s faster and more intuitive than most DAWs.
- Field recorders and educators, who can capture, edit or analyze the sounds of environments, ambience, animals and more.
Features
In the app, every audio creator can:
- Record live with a microphone or mixer. Or digitize imported recordings.
- Edit your tracks fast with intuitive tools, including cutting, pasting and smooth volume mixing.
- Perfect your audio with more advanced effects:
- Reduce background static with noise reduction tools.
- Adjust tempo without altering pitch or vice
Requirements
Version History
Audacity 3.7.4 was released on 10 Jun 2025
This is a patch release. It contains the following changes:
- Added a new welcome/what's new screen.
- OpenVINO effects are now available on macOS. More about that can be found in this blogpost.
- OpenVINO effects can now be found via the Get Effects button. (NB, this is a slow rollout - you may not see it there just yet at the time of release)
- OpenVINO effects have been recategorized into their own category in the Effect menu. This also goes for the transcription and music generator feature, previously found in the Generate and Analyze menus, respectively.
- #6890 Fixed a crash when closing a large unsaved project.
- #8709 Fixed a crash when using real-time effects that activate delay compensation.
- #8494 Fixed issue where Studio Fade Out creates a new clip when applied at the end of a clip.
- #8442 Fixed incorrect waveform rendering on clipped audio.
- #8559 Fixed unintended deletion of a clip when joining two clips with pitch adjustment.
- #3003 Effect preview now works when the track is muted.
- #8666 Fixed possible incorrect calculations in the Hamming window derivative. (Thanks, witwald!)
- #8577 Fixed compilation issues on legacy macOS (Thanks, barracuda156!)
Audacity 3.7.3 was released on 13 Mar 2025
This is a hotfix release. It contains the following change:
- Reverted deleting edges of clips being non-destructive due to a large range of unforseen side-effects.
- This fixes joining clips becoming offset
- This fixes cutting always creating new clips
- This fixes "detach at silences" and "truncate silences" creating a bunch of new clips
Audacity 3.7.2 was released on 10 Mar 2025
This is a patch release. It contains the following changes:
- #8290 Fixed a crash when applying some effects across multiple tracks if one track is empty.
- #8157, #8155 Fixed some crashes emenating from the Mixer window.
- #7672 Returned the "Residue" option in noise reduction. (Thanks, Christopher Rooney!)
- #7809 Modules are now allowed to stick around when patch releases like this one are published. This means you likely won't need to update the OpenVINO again during 3.7.x.
* #7076 When adding a realtime effect to a track, the effect settings are now opened immediately.
- #7819 Added an infobox when saving a project in a new version breaks compatibility with an old one.
- #7740 Added a preference to turn off automatic tempo detection.
- #4169 When duplicating tracks, the duplicated tracks now have independent realtime effect instances.
- #7700 Fixed range-selection beyond the edge of a clip being destructive.
- #8013, #8008, #8004, #8009, #8003, #8005, #8071 Improved stability of cloud saving.
- #7410 Fixed pasting content from a clip at the beginning of itself being offset in time.
- #4231 macOS: Fixed AUSoundIsolation.
- #6342 Fixed audacity continuing to scroll after letting go of the scrollbar.
- #8110 Fixed black stripes appearing when zooming in while in the envelope or multi-tool.
- #8043 Added a new "get effects" button next to the Upload Audio button.
- #8211 Added UUID instance support. See this page for further info.
- #7154 Fixed label texts using the wrong color in dark themes. (Thanks, GovindaMadhava!)
- #8261 Fixed tracks being incorrectly drawn on high zoom levels using high precision trackpads.
- #7902 Linux: Fixed FFmpeg loading in the Ubuntu 22.04 AppImage.
- #8309 Fixed crossfading tracks on stretched clips.
- #8234 You no longer need to click OK twice to exit the label editor in some edit states. (Thanks, Kurtsley!)
- #8160 Playback quality is now the same as rendering quality by default.
Audacity 3.7.1 was released on Dec 12, 2024
This is a patch release. It fixes the following bugs:
- #7797 Effects can be applied to time-stretched clips.
- #7620 Moving or renaming the installation directory no longer re-enables disabled modules.
- #7652 Opening the "Adjust Playback Speed" dialog doesn't crash Audacity anymore.
Development Status
Active
Options
Download
Download from here:
Known Issues
Credits
Legal
Audacity was distributed with the GPL3
References
- ↑ From the version history documentation
Also See
- Audio Editors
- Audio Resource
- AUD in the SCI Specifications
- Audio Resource Articles
- Audacity on Wikipedia
- Audacity on Facebook
- https://www.audacityteam.org/
