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[![Audacity](https://forum.audacityteam.org/styles/prosilver/theme/images/Audacity-logo_75px_trans_forum.png)](https://www.audacityteam.org)
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[**Audacity**](https://www.audacityteam.org) is an easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. Developed by a group of volunteers as open source.
### This repository is a fork of the audacity repository that tries to revert all the changes that some members of the community felt didn't take the Audacity software project in a direction they desire.
- **Recording** from any real, or virtual audio device that is available to the host system.
- **Export / Import** a wide range of audio formats, extendible with FFmpeg.
- **High quality** using 32-bit float audio processing.
- **Plug-ins** Support for multiple audio plug-in formats, including VST, LV2, AU.
- **Macros** for chaining commands and batch processing.
- **Scripting** in Python, Perl, or any language that supports named pipes.
- **Nyquist** Very powerful built-in scripting language that may also be used to create plug-ins.
- **Editing** multi-track editing with sample accuracy and arbitrary sample rates.
- **Accessibility** for VI users.
- **Analysis and visualization** tools to analyze audio, or other signal data.
## This repository
This fork of **audacity** is an easy-to-use, cross-platform multi-track audio editor/recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems and is developed by a group of volunteers as open source software.
This repository is a fork of Audacity that tries to revert all the sketchy changes made to the software in recent months, mostly related to data collection. You can find more informations on what happened in these Github issues on the original Audacity repository :
- **Recording** from audio devices (real or virtual)
- **Export / Import** a wide range of audio formats (extendible with FFmpeg)
- **High quality** including up to 32-bit float audio support
- **Plug-ins** Plug-in support for VST, LV2, and AU plugins
- **Scripting** in the built-in scripting language Nyquist, or in Python, Perl and other languages with named pipes
- **Editing** arbitrary sampling and multi-track timeline
- **Accessibility** including editing via keyboard, screen reader support and narration support
- **Tools** useful in the analysis of signals, including audio
## Why did this project fork audacity/audacity?
You can find more informations on what happened in these Github issues on the original audacity repository :
- [**Privacy policy which may violate the original project's GPL license**](https://github.com/audacity/audacity/issues/1213)
- [**Contributer's License Agreement (CLA) which may violate the same GPL license**](https://github.com/audacity/audacity/discussions/932)
- [**Attempts at adding telemetry using Google services for data collection**](https://github.com/audacity/audacity/pull/835)
## Pre-fork Access
The latest Windows and macOS release of the pre-fork version of this repository may be available from the [Audacity website](https://www.audacityteam.org/download/).
Additionally, they one may find help and/or support for the pre-fork releases at the [Audacity Forum](https://forum.audacityteam.org/).
Developers may find support for the pre-fork releases available at the [Audacity Wiki](https://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/For_Developers).
- [**Privacy policy that doesn't respect the GPL**](https://github.com/audacity/audacity/issues/1213)
- [**Discussion on the Contributer's License Agreement (CLA), goes against the GPL**](https://github.com/audacity/audacity/discussions/932)
- [**Pull request trying to implement telemetry using Google's services (did not pass)**](https://github.com/audacity/audacity/pull/835)
## Getting Started
For end users, the latest Windows and macOS release of the *original* version of Audacity is available from the *original* [Audacity website](https://www.audacityteam.org/download/). Note that this is the unmodified version which still contains some sketchy code.
Help with using Audacity is available from the original [Audacity Forum](https://forum.audacityteam.org/).
Build instructions for this forked version of Audacity is available [here](BUILDING.md).
Build instructions are available [here](BUILDING.md).
More information for developers is available from the original [Audacity Wiki](https://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/For_Developers).