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Fork of audacity/audacity
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### 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.
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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.
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- **Recording** from audio devices (real or virtual)
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- **Export / Import** a wide range of audio formats (extendible with FFmpeg)
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- **High quality** including up to 32-bit float audio support
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- **Plug-ins** Plug-in support for VST, LV2, and AU plugins
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- **Scripting** in the built-in scripting language Nyquist, or in Python, Perl and other languages with named pipes
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- **Editing** arbitrary sampling and multi-track timeline
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- **Accessibility** including editing via keyboard, screen reader support and narration support
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- **Tools** useful in the analysis of signals, including audio
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## Why did this project fork audacity/audacity?
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You can find more informations on what happened in these Github issues on the original audacity repository :
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- [**Privacy policy which may violate the original project's GPL license**](https://github.com/audacity/audacity/issues/1213)
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- [**Contributer's License Agreement (CLA) which may violate the same GPL license**](https://github.com/audacity/audacity/discussions/932)
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- [**Attempts at adding telemetry using Google services for data collection**](https://github.com/audacity/audacity/pull/835)
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## Pre-fork Access
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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/).
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Additionally, they one may find help and/or support for the pre-fork releases at the [Audacity Forum](https://forum.audacityteam.org/).
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Developers may find support for the pre-fork releases available at the [Audacity Wiki](https://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/For_Developers).
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## Getting Started
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Build instructions for this forked version of Audacity is available [here](BUILDING.md).
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