Audacity

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Free, Cross-Platform Sound Editor == Audacity® is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems. [|Learn more about Audacity...] Also check our [|Wiki] and [|Forum] for more information.

** About Audacity **
Audacity is a free, easy-to-use and [|multilingual] audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. You can use Audacity to:
 * Record live audio.
 * Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs.
 * Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WAV or AIFF sound files.
 * Cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together.
 * Change the speed or pitch of a recording.
 * And more! See the complete [|list of features].

** About Free Software **
Audacity is free software, developed by a group of volunteers and distributed under the [|GNU General Public License (GPL)]. Free software is not just free of cost (like "free beer"). It is **free as in freedom** (like "free speech"). Free software gives you the freedom to use a program, study how it works, improve it and share it with others. For more information, visit the [|Free Software Foundation]. Programs like Audacity are also called **open source software**, because their source code is available for anyone to study or use. There are thousands of other free and open source programs, including the [|Firefox] web browser, the [|OpenOffice.org] office suite and entire Linux-based operating systems such as [|Ubuntu]. We welcome [|donations] to support Audacity development. Anyone can [|contribute] to Audacity by helping us with Beta [|documentation], [|translations] , user [|support] and by [|testing] [|Ohloh] has statistics on the value of Audacity development. The Ohloh "badge" at the bottom of each page on this site shows updated summary values. We set up the Ohloh pages about Audacity so the statistics show only the values of Audacity-specific development, excluding the third-party code libraries Audacity uses.