Tenacity
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Tenacity is an easy-to-use, cross-platform multi-track audio editor/recorder for Windows, MacOS, GNU/Linux and other operating systems and is developed by a group of volunteers as open source software.

- **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** providing 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 information on the causes of the fork here:

- [**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, one may find help and/or support for the pre-fork releases at the [Audacity Forum](https://forum.audacityteam.org/).
Developers may find information for the pre-fork releases available at the [Audacity Wiki](https://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/For_Developers).


## Getting Started

Build instructions for Tenacity are available in the [BUILDING.md file](BUILDING.md).