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This document should be replaced soon, as soon as the fork's organization is organized properly and we get to writing code. Most of the information in the document is irrelevant and cannot be replaced with more accurate information at this stage.
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 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
- Contributer's License Agreement (CLA) which may violate the same GPL license
- Attempts at adding telemetry using Google services for data collection
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, one may find help and/or support for the pre-fork releases at the Audacity Forum. Developers may find information for the pre-fork releases available at the Audacity Wiki.
Getting Started
Build instructions for this forked version of Audacity is available here.