Audacity is a free, open source digital audio editor and recording application. Edit your sounds using cut, copy, and paste features (with unlimited undo functionality), mix tracks, or apply effects to your recordings. The program also has a built-in amplitude-envelope editor, a customizable spectrogram mode, and a frequency-analysis window for audio-analysis applications. Built-in effects include bass boost, wah wah, and noise removal, and the program also supports VST plug-in effects.
You can use Audacity to:
- Record live audio.
- Record computer playback on any Windows Vista or later machine.
- Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs.
- Edit WAV, AIFF, FLAC, MP2, MP3 or Ogg Vorbis sound files.
- AC3, M4A/M4R (AAC), WMA and other formats supported using optional libraries.
- Cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together.
- Numerous effects including change the speed or pitch of a recording.
- Write your own plug-in effects with Nyquist.
- And more! See the complete list of features.
Audacity 3.4.1 is a hotfix release. It fixes the following bugs:
- #5467 Fix 24-bit recording.
- #5488 Fix a crash with .aup importing.
- #5471 #5483 Fix crossfading of clips and tracks.
- #5473 Exporting multiple files honors sample rate settings again.
- #5480 #5417 Fix crashes related to external program exports.
- #5479 #5476 Fix BSD and ARM builds.
- #5498 Ctrl+J is now a standard shortcut for joining clips.
- #5389 Stereo tracks no longer randomly split into mono.
- #5007 When exporting a file, the file extension is now always added (except for custom FFmpeg and external program exports).
- #5516 Fix a crash when exporting Opus with older CPUs that don"t support AVX.
Download 64-bit: Audacity 3.4.1 | Standalone ~20.0 MB (Open Source)
Download 32-bit: Audacity 3.4.1 | Standalone
View: Audacity Home Page | Release Notes