Audacity, an open source multitrack audio editor, has versions for Linux/Unix, MacOS and Windows. If all you do with audio files is play them, then Audacity could be much more than you need. This is ...

Released in September 2026, Audacity 4 is the biggest renovation in its 25-year history, from the UI to clip-based editing.

Audacity 4 has been in development for a while and stirred up some chatter last year due to a controversial logo redesign. Fortunately, the final version of the new icon is a significant improvement ...

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Audacity is an excellent, free, open source audio editor that makes it a snap for ecommerce merchants to develop customer-engaging podcasts for any online store. More and more online shopkeepers are ...

In recent years, recorded audio has undergone a renaissance thanks to the breakthrough of podcasts. It’s now easy to record audio and share it online, and things that used to require access to a ...

Audio editing tools -- much like photo editors -- can be both incredibly expensive, and tremendously complex. Audacity has long served as an alternative to such apps, and with the release of Audacity ...

Whether you need a simple audio editing tool, or you plan to make music and need a full-fledged digital audio workstation (DAW), you weighed in last week with five great audio editing applications to ...

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