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Audacity
I recommend Garageband if you’re on a Mac, or if you’re not a fan of Garageband and/or you’re a Windows person, then I’d recommend <anchor>Audacity</anchor> instead. Both are free.
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# Audacity

## A free multi-track audio editor and recorder

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[As of 2019-07-14, this project can be found here.](http://www.audacityteam.org/download/)

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Audacity is a free, easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems.

Audacity is free software, developed by a group of volunteers and distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). 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 LibreOffice or Apache OpenOffice office suites and entire Linux-based operating systems such as Ubuntu

### Features

- 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
- And more!

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### License

GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPLv2)

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Great program. Easy to use, while directing you to perform the necessary requests.

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helpful for me

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I have heard a lot about Audacity.
Today trying it myself

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tengo tiempo utilizando audacity al rededor de tres o cuatro años y a mi ver es una aplicación que es fácil de utilizar y a la vez te guía sobre lo que quieres hacer soy aficionado a la música y mi pasatiempo favorito es grabar es como un jovi para mi.
Sin fines lucrativos ya que mis grabaciones son personales y como dije es un desestres que tengo he buscado otras aplicaciones y nada mejor que se acomode a mi que audacity .

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Using Audacity for more than 10 years to produce audio features, podcasts and soundtracks for video.


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