Audacity 3.0 has been released with a new AUP3 file format that makes it harder for projects to become damaged and to increase performance while editing audio. In the past, when saving an Audacity ...

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Audacity has become the absolute go-to recommendation when it comes to free audio recording software for your PC, and while it's an easy program to start recording with, the built in noise reduction ...

Muse Group, the new owner of audio-editing app Audacity, caused a stir in recent days with an update to the software's privacy policy. It stated that Muse Group will collect users' personal data and ...

After more than 25 years, audio editing software Audacity is undergoing a major overhaul with version 4, scheduled for release in early 2026, to simplify the user experience and modernize its ...

Recent changes to the Audacity privacy policy have led to some users calling the audio-editing app spyware. The open-source software is now collecting user data for "app analytics" and "improving our ...

The open-source audio editor Audacity released version 3.7.5 this week, and with it came support for ARM64 versions of Windows 11. There are a few other bug fixes and improvements with this release ...

Audacity is a piece of free audio software that, for many, is one of those go-to programs—because an ornery UX aside, it's more-or-less perfect. It's easy to use, flexible, free, and does everything a ...

UPDATE 7/6: Audacity's owner Muse Group has now responded to the spyware claims via the Audacity GitHub page with a "Clarification of Privacy Policy" post. According ...

The previous major update to Audacity was Audacity 2.4.2, and the next major update is Audacity 3.0.0. The biggest feature of Audacity 3.0.0 is that the save format of the project has changed.