Audacity enters a “new era” with the biggest update in the free and open-source audio editor’s 26-year history - MusicRadar

Audacity 4 overhauls the software's editing workflow, polishes up its interface and introduces new ways for users to organize their work

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(Image credit: Muse Group) Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article 1 Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Launched in 2000, Audacity is one of the world's most popular apps for audio editing and recording, having accrued hundreds of millions of downloads over its 26-year lifespan.

It's not hard to see why: not only is it free, open-source and cross-platform, Audacity has become increasingly powerful in recent years, inching ever closer to becoming a fully-fledged DAW while preserving the simplicity and ease-of-use that it's known for.