Editing Audacity (audio editor) (section)

== History ==
The project was started in the fall of 1999 by Dominic Mazzoni and Roger Dannenberg at [[Carnegie Mellon University]], initially under the name ''CMU Visual Audio''.<ref name=":3">{{Citation |title=The Story Behind Audacity | date=April 30, 2021 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMWNvwLiXIQ |access-date=April 14, 2023 |language=en}}</ref> On May 28, 2000, Audacity was released as Audacity 0.8 to the public.<ref>"Version 0.8: May 28, 2000" in README.txt of audacity-win-0.8.zip</ref><ref name="irelease">{{cite web |title=Credits |url=https://www.audacityteam.org/about/credits |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150629035306/http://audacityteam.org/about/credits |archive-date=June 29, 2015 |access-date=February 19, 2012 |work=audacityteam.org}}</ref>

Mazzoni eventually left CMU to pursue software development and in particular development of Audacity, with Dannenberg remaining at CMU and continuing development of [[Nyquist (programming language)|Nyquist]], a scripting language which Audacity uses for some effects.<ref name=":3" />

Over the years, additional volunteer contributors emerged, including James Crook who started the fork ''DarkAudacity'' to experiment with a new look and other UX changes.<ref>{{Cite web |title=But Why? |url=http://www.darkaudacity.com/but-why.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221001210730/http://www.darkaudacity.com/but-why.html |archive-date=October 1, 2022 |access-date=May 30, 2022 |website=darkaudacity.com}}</ref> Most of its changes were eventually incorporated into the mainline version and the fork ended.<ref>{{Cite web |title=DarkAudacity, a customised version of Audacity |url=http://www.darkaudacity.com/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211219210553/http://www.darkaudacity.com/ |archive-date=December 19, 2021 |access-date=July 6, 2021 |website=darkaudacity.com}}</ref>

In April 2021, it was announced that [[Muse Group]] (owners of [[MuseScore]] and [[Ultimate Guitar]]) would acquire the Audacity trademark and continue to develop the application, which remains free and open source.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Rothman |first=Philip |date=April 30, 2021 |title=Muse Group formed to support MuseScore, Ultimate Guitar; acquires Audacity |url=https://www.scoringnotes.com/news/muse-group-formed-to-support-musescore-ultimate-guitar-acquires-audacity/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210503004437/https://www.scoringnotes.com/news/muse-group-formed-to-support-musescore-ultimate-guitar-acquires-audacity/ |archive-date=May 3, 2021 |access-date=May 3, 2021 |website=Scoring Notes |language=en-US}}</ref>