You can find links to other useful Open Source audio and audio-visual applications, that you can download and use, in the Audacity Wiki.Other Open Source Audio and Audio-Visual Applications It can record live audio through a microphone, mixer, or digitize recordings. You may copy, distribute, modify and/or resell Audacity, under the terms of the GNU GPL. Audacity is a free, open source, cross-platform and easy-to-use audio software for multi-track recording and editing.

To build Audacity yourself, download the source code.

Although there are a number of sellers of Audacity software on ebay, Amazon, Microsoft Store and Apple Store, none of these sellers are affiliated to Audacity, and none have contributed in any way to the Audacity project.

Source code and user manuals for some old versions are available on FossHub, as well as AppImages since version 3.0.3.

For Linux, the appropriate version of Audacity for your operating system is usually included in your distribution’s repository.For macOS 10.12 (Sierra) and earlier, legacy versions of Audacity are available on the Legacy Mac downloads page.For Windows 7 and earlier, legacy versions of Audacity are available on the Legacy Windows downloads page.

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