Audacity is a free, user-friendly, multilingual audio editor and recorder compatible with Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems. It allows you to record sounds, play audio, and import/export WAV, AIFF, AAC, MP4, Ogg Vorbis, MP3, and other file formats.
Use it to edit your sounds with features like Cut, Copy, and Paste (with unlimited Undo), mix tracks together, apply effects to your recordings, change the speed or pitch of a recording, and much more.
Audacity enables FLAC support. The software also has a built-in amplitude-envelope editor, a customizable spectrogram mode, and a frequency-analysis window for audio-analysis applications.
The software has built-in effects, including Bass Boost, Wahwah, and Noise Removal, and it also supports VST plug-in effects.
Audacity is a powerful and user-friendly digital audio editor that can meet the needs of both home users and professionals.
Audacity Key Features
- Cut, copy, splice, or combine sounds collectively.
- Record live audio.
- It supports 16-bit, 24-bit, and 32-bit (floating-level) samples (the latter preserves samples over full scale).
- Record computer playback on Windows Vista and later by selecting “Windows WASAPI” host in the Device Toolbar then a “loopback” enter.
- Import and Export WAV, AIFF, AU, FLAC, and Ogg Vorbis files.
- Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs.
- Edit WAV, AIFF, FLAC, MP2, MP3 or Ogg Vorbis sound files.
- Import and export AC3, M4A/M4R (AAC), and WMA with the non-compulsory FFmpeg library (Additionally, Audacity supports the import of audio tracks from video files).
- Audacity offers a variety of features, including the ability to adjust speed or pitch and perform vocal reduction or isolation (with suitable stereo tracks).
- And more! See the whole list of features.
Changes in Audacity 3.7.0 :
Supported Operating Systems:
- Windows 11, Windows 10.
- macOS 10.9 and later.
