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Audacity Description
Audacity is a free and open-source audio editing software widely used for recording, editing, and mixing audio. It supports multiple platforms, including Windows, macOS, and Linux, and can record live audio using a microphone or mixer, or digitize recordings that are imported. Audacity is suitable for creating music and podcasts, making it ideal for beginners or anyone looking to quickly edit recordings of live performances.
Audacity Features
Audacity boasts a diverse array of features. Here are the main highlights:
- Audio Editing: Provides functions for cutting, copying, pasting, smoothing, and deleting audio clips, visualizing and analyzing your audio clips in the spectrogram view, and supporting various audio formats, including MP3, M4A, AIFF, FLAC, WAV, etc. You can even combine clips of different formats into the same project.
- Effects and Filters: Built-in a variety of audio effects and filters, such as echo, reverb, equalizer, etc., to help users improve sound quality. Use noise reduction tools to minimize background static, adjust tempo without changing pitch, and enhance impact through distortion, echo, reverb, and more effects.
- Free and Open Source Community Design: Elevate your editing to a new level with a wide selection of third-party effect plugins designed by the passionate Audacity open-source community. Collaborate and back up projects through cloud storage, and share files at https://audio.com/.
Audacity System Requirements
Operating System:
- Windows 10 & 11, with Vista, 7 and 8.1 believed to work
- MacOS 12 & 13, with OS X versions since 10.9 believed to still work
- Linux: Ubuntu 22.04, with most major distributions believed to work.
How to Install Audacity
Choose the language you want.

Click “Next”.

Click “Next”.

Click “Next”.

Choose additional shortcuts and click “Next”.

Click “Install”.

Click “Finish”.

Click “OK”.

Click “OK”.

Launch the software to start using it.
