Audacity 3.7.8

Audacity is a free open-source audio editor and recorder with multi-track editing, effects support, audio analysis tools, and format conversion.

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Audacity

Audacity is a free, open source digital audio editor and recording application. Edit your sounds using cut, copy, and paste features (with unlimited undo functionality), mix tracks, or apply effects to your recordings. The program also has a built-in amplitude-envelope editor, a customizable spectrogram mode, and a frequency-analysis window for audio-analysis applications. Built-in effects include bass boost, wah wah, and noise removal, and the program also supports VST plug-in effects.

You can use Audacity to:

Record live audio.
Record computer playback on any Windows Vista or later machine.
Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs.
Edit WAV, AIFF, FLAC, MP2, MP3 or Ogg Vorbis sound files.
AC3, M4A/M4R (AAC), WMA and other formats supported using optional libraries.
Cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together.
Numerous effects including change the speed or pitch of a recording.
Write your own plug-in effects with Nyquist.
And more! See the complete list of features.

Audacity 3.7.8 changelog:

#10688 Fixed an exception thrown when pasting into a newly-created track (Thanks, David Bailes (@DavidBailes)!)
#10870, #10884, #10775, #10629 Fixed tone generation, waveform-scale setting, SetClip Name parameter,
and clip-boundary command names for scripting and macros (Thank you, David Bailes (@DavidBailes)!)
#11106 Fixed the loading of presets for the Distortion effect (A million thanks, David Bailes (@DavidBailes)!)
#10947 Fixed paste into an empty audio track not preserving the source sample rate (Thanks, Juan Gabriel Colonna (@juancolonna)!)
#10776 Allowed AltGr modifier in label and clip name editing (Thanks, Davide Peressoni (@DPDmancul)!)
#9938 Added options to choose where silence is truncated (start/middle/end) (Thanks, Noah Rosenfield (@nosenfield)!)
#9935 Added Podcast 2.0 chapters JSON export for label tracks (Thanks, Noah Rosenfield (@nosenfield)!)
#10103 Improve UI on HiDPI displays on Linux/wxGTK (Thanks, Ivan A. Melnikov (@iv-m)!)
#10099 Fixed MixerBoard Mute and Solo button display (Thanks, Ivan A. Melnikov (@iv-m)!)
#10681 Fixed multichannel FLAC import
#10999 Fixed envelope being broken after joining clips