Released in September 2026, Audacity 4 is the biggest renovation in its 25-year history, from the UI to clip-based editing.

Audio editing tools -- much like photo editors -- can be both incredibly expensive, and tremendously complex. Audacity has long served as an alternative to such apps, and with the release of Audacity ...

If you've ever needed to correct a song's pitch or tuning in Audacity, you might be surprised to realize there isn't an autotune feature bundled with Audacity's many default audio effects. However, ...

Launched in 2000, Audacity is one of the world’s most popular apps for audio editing and recording, having accrued hundreds of millions of downloads over its 26-year lifespan. It’s not hard to see why ...

Audacity is best known as a free app to do quick audio edits and record audio, but the latest update makes it more viable as a full on production tool, parent Muse Group has announced. Version 3.2 now ...

Audacity 4.0 fundamentally overhauls the interface of the free audio editor. The application now uses Qt instead of the previous interface, introduces a new model for editing audio clips, and saves ...

Popular open-source, cross-platform sound recording, editing and mixing tool Audacity 2.0.3 has been released. Despite the minor revision number, the new update boasts several key new features, ...

It's not unusual to import audio into Audacity only to discover one or more tracks are too quiet. If you've recorded an interview, for example, one half of the conversation might be louder than the ...

Audacity is an open source audio editing software. This means that the software is free to download, and you can use it to create items that are freely distributable. You'll learn all of the basics ...

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