audacity-2-4-2

minimalist DAW [old school version w/o 'non-destructive editing' or SQLite3-based file format]

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Audacity is an easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. Developed by a group of volunteers as open source.

• Recording from any real, or virtual audio device that is available to the host system.
• Export / Import a wide range of audio formats, extendible with FFmpeg.
• High quality using 32-bit float audio processing.
• Plug-ins Support for multiple audio plug-in formats, including VST¹, LV2, AU².
• Macros for chaining commands and batch processing.
• Scripting in Python, Perl, or any language that supports named pipes.
• Nyquist Very powerful built-in scripting language that may also be used to create plug-ins.
• Editing multi-track editing with sample accuracy and arbitrary sample rates.
• Accessibility for VI users.
• Analysis and visualization tools to analyze audio, or other signal data.

Maintainer`s notice:

• this version of Audacity is 'An Antique Release' --it is maintained not by Audacity Team, who have moved on to produce Audacity v3, but a single maintainer irulanCorrino.
  • [to my own risk] i relicense this software piece under GPL v3.0-or-later.
  • Audacity team [previous maintainers] were reckless enough to have a bunch of incompatible clauses in individual files [GPL-generic vs. GPL-2 vs. GPL-2-or-later], which case effectively invalidate any of their potential claims of license agreement violation.
  • nevertheless i ought to provide users of this version with links to previous maintainer`s resources because i cannot maintain a dedicated site for it.
  • be aware that you would need to dive deeply into archived forum topics or read past versions of the manual; they would not provide you with a support for this antique version

  • ...maybe i would be able to perform bugfixes however.

Disclaimer:

• my intent was to keep this version 'as it is' but probably i would try improving it in a future; i am goint to keep its version number as associated with app's name and to introduce different supplementary release naming scheme in a case of its futher development under Linux [AntiqueRelease<INTEGER>].

• so for giving 'feedback on Audacity, suggestions for new or improved features, and bug reports' you would have to contact me on GitHub:

  • https://github.com/irulanCorrino/audacity-2-4-2/issues
  • https://github.com/irulanCorrino/audacity-2-4-2/pulls

here is how it was back then:

[ Warning: newer manual or forum topics may not be applicable to this particular software version ]

• Help with using Audacity is available from the Audacity Forum.

• Information for developers is available from the Audacity Wiki.

• We welcome feedback on Audacity, suggestions for new or improved features, and bug reports. Please visit https://forum.audacityteam.org/viewforum.php?f=25

• Compilation instructions for Audacity are provided in the source code:

  • Windows: win\build.txt³

  • macOS: mac/build.txt³

  • GNU/Linux: linux/build.txt

    • You can ask for help with compilation problems at: https://forum.audacityteam.org/viewforum.php?f=19

• If you want to suggest some simple text change in our code, please submit a pull request on https://github.com/audacity/audacity/pulls

• It's usually best to discuss functional code changes with us first on audacity-devel: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/audacity-devel

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irulan

February 4th, 2023

Footnotes

1. only in MS Windows OS ↩

2. only in Apple macOS ↩

3. cannot help you people, i do not have any Windows OS or macOS systems, and i am even not interested in development for those two commercial platforms --irulan ↩ ↩²