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Audacity for Audio Editing With Free Software Only (GPL)

Video download link



Summary: Audacity is still our software of choice for audio editing; it had a new stable release just 10 days ago (GPL-licensed)

THE TechBytes audiocast uses Mumble (instance we self-host with Murmur at the back end) for recording and Audacity for editing. A decade or more ago we had used all sorts of applications, including several SIP-based ones, but for multi-user chats Mumble is fantastic and we warmly recommend it. It doesn't do video, but it copes with audio very well and it's very easy to use. Some time in the future we'll try to introduce more people to it.



"The licence is GPLv2 and the project will turn 21 later this month."The above video focuses on Audacity and how it can generally be used (by virtually anybody). It's Free/libre software with many developers involved (they welcome more), it still has new releases (very active project; last release 10 days ago, according to Wikipedia), and it runs across platforms with standardised formats. There's no vendor lock-in and anyone can use it. The learning curve is not steep (especially for people who edited sounds before) and it's not as monstrous as proprietary counterparts, weighing at 65.6 MB for Windows, 86.0 MB for macOS, and for GNU/Linux it varies depending on the distribution. The licence is GPLv2 and the project will turn 21 later this month.

Audacity logoI'm not new to audio editing, so Audacity was very easy for me to learn. It's the only application I've ever used to edit TechBytes and it keeps getting better all the time. It's also very stable in my experience. It case of crashes it can (and does) recover data.

Here's where to download the software.

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