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Fork of audacity/audacity

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.

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.

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 :

Pre-fork Access

The latest Windows and macOS release of the pre-fork version of this repository may be available from the Audacity website. Additionally, they one may find help and/or support for the pre-fork releases at the Audacity Forum. Developers may find support for the pre-fork releases available at the Audacity Wiki.

Getting Started

Build instructions for this forked version of Audacity is available here.