Editing Audacity (audio editor) (section)

{{Short description|Open-source digital audio editor and recording software}}
{{About|the audio editing application|other uses|Audacity (disambiguation){{!}}Audacity}}
{{Distinguish|Audacious (software)|Audacy}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2023}}
{{Infobox software
| title = Audacity
| name = Audacity
| logo = [[File:Audacity Logo 2-2-0.png|200px]]
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| logo caption = 
| screenshot = [[File:Audacity version 3.3.png|300px]]
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| caption = Audacity showing the timeline, tracks, and basic controls
| collapsible = 
| author = 
| developer = [[Muse Group]] <br/> The Audacity Team
| released = {{Start date and age|2000|05|28}}
| discontinued = 
| latest release version = 
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| latest preview version = 
| latest preview date = 
| programming language = [[C (programming language)|C]], [[C++]] (using the [[wxWidgets]] [[Widget toolkit|toolkit]])<ref name="SourceForgeJul04">{{cite web
 | url         = https://sourceforge.net/blog/potm-2004-07/
 | title       = Project of the Month July 2004 – Audacity
 | access-date  = November 27, 2008
| last        = SourceForge
 | date        = July 2004
 | archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20081223141544/http://sourceforge.net/potm/potm-2004-07.php
 | archive-date = December 23, 2008
| url-status  = live}}</ref><ref name="UN2004">{{cite web
 | url         = https://unctad.org/system/files/official-document/ecdr2004ch3_en.pdf
 | title       = E-Commerce and Development Report 2004
 | access-date  = November 27, 2008
| last        = United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
 | year        = 2004
 | archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20081203142001/http://www.unctad.org/en/docs/ecdr2004ch3_en.pdf
 | archive-date = December 3, 2008
| url-status  = live}}</ref>
| operating system = [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]], [[macOS]], [[Linux]], other [[Unix-like]] systems<ref name=homePage>{{cite web
 | url        = https://www.audacityteam.org/
 | title        = Audacity: Free Audio Editor and Recorder
 | work        = audacityteam.org
 | access-date        = January 5, 2012
| archive-date        = March 14, 2011
| archive-url        = https://web.archive.org/web/20110314132757/http://audacityteam.org/
 | url-status        = live
 }}</ref><ref name=aboutPage/>
| platform = [[IA-32]], [[x86-64]], [[PowerPC]]
| language = {{unbulleted list|[[Afrikaans]], [[Arabic language|Arabic]], [[Basque language|Basque]], [[Bulgarian language|Bulgarian]], [[Catalan language|Catalan]], [[Chinese (simplified)]], [[Chinese (traditional)]], [[Corsican language|Corsican]], [[Czech language|Czech]], [[Danish language|Danish]], [[Dutch language|Dutch]], [[English language|English]], [[Finnish language|Finnish]], [[French language|French]], [[Galician language|Galician]], [[German language|German]], [[Greek language|Greek]], [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]], [[Hungarian language|Hungarian]], [[Irish language|Irish]], [[Italian language|Italian]], [[Japanese language|Japanese]], [[Lithuanian language|Lithuanian]], [[Macedonian language|Macedonian]], [[Marathi language|Marathi]], [[Norwegian language|Norwegian]] ([[Bokmål]]), [[Polish language|Polish]], [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]], [[Romanian language|Romanian]], [[Russian language|Russian]], [[Slovak language|Slovak]], [[Slovenian language|Slovenian]], [[Swedish language|Swedish]], [[Turkish language|Turkish]], [[Ukrainian language|Ukrainian]], [[Vietnamese language|Vietnamese]] and [[Welsh language|Welsh]]}}
| language count = 38
| language footnote = 
| genre = [[Digital audio editor]]
| license = [[GNU General Public License|GPL v2 or later]], [[Creative Commons license|CC-BY-3.0]] (documentation)<ref name="license">{{cite web
 | url        = https://www.audacityteam.org/about/license/
 | title      = License
 | author     = Audacity Team
 | access-date = June 3, 2021
| website=Audacity
 | language=en-US
 | url-status=live
 | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20210602171819/https://www.audacityteam.org/about/license/
 | archivedate=June 2, 2021}}</ref>
<ref name="README.txt">{{Cite web|url=https://github.com/audacity/audacity/blob/27ad8e9833788fdc9e8d9f3438488d756096e66b/README.txt|title=audacity/audacity|date=June 14, 2022|via=GitHub|access-date=June 14, 2022|archive-date=June 14, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220614191439/https://github.com/audacity/audacity/blob/27ad8e9833788fdc9e8d9f3438488d756096e66b/README.txt|url-status=live}}</ref>
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| website = {{URL|https://www.audacityteam.org/}}
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'''Audacity''' is a [[free and open-source]] [[digital audio editor]] and recording [[application software]], available for [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]], [[macOS]], [[Linux]], and other [[Unix-like]] operating systems.<ref name=homePage/><ref name=aboutPage>{{cite web |url=https://www.audacityteam.org/about/ |title=About Audacity |work=audacityteam.org |access-date=February 19, 2012 |archive-date=June 18, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150618040105/http://audacityteam.org/about/ |url-status=live }}</ref> 

As of December 6, 2022, Audacity is the most popular download at FossHub,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.fosshub.com/Audacity.html|title=Download Audacity|last=FossHub.com|access-date=January 23, 2017|archive-date=January 22, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170122204958/https://www.fosshub.com/Audacity.html|url-status=live}}</ref> with over 114.2 million downloads since March 2015. It was previously served by [[Google_Developers#Google_Code|Google Code]] and [[SourceForge]], where it was downloaded over 200 million times. It is now part of [[Muse Group]].

It is licensed under [[GNU General Public License|GPL-2.0 or later]]. Executables with [[Virtual Studio Technology|VST3]] support are licensed GPL-3-only to maintain license compatibility.<ref name="license" /><ref name="README.txt" />