Tenacity is an easy-to-use multi-track audio editor and recorder for Windows, MacOS, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. It is a fork of the widely popular Audacity and is being developed by a wide, diverse group of volunteers.

• Recording from audio devices (real or virtual)
• Export / Import a wide range of audio formats (extensible with FFmpeg)
• High quality including up to 32-bit float audio support
• Plug-ins providing support for VST, LV2, and AU plugins
• Scripting in the built-in scripting language Nyquist, or in Python, Perl and other languages with named pipes
• Editing arbitrary sampling and multi-track timeline
• Accessibility including editing via keyboard, screen reader support and narration support
• Tools useful in the analysis of signals, including audio

Why did this project fork Audacity?

You can find more information on the causes of the fork here:

• Privacy policy which may violate the original project's GPL license
• Contributor's License Agreement (CLA) which may violate the same GPL license
• Attempts at adding telemetry using Google services for data collection

Pre-fork Access

The latest Windows and macOS release of the pre-fork version of this repository may be available from the Audacity website. Additionally, one may find help and/or support for the pre-fork releases at the Audacity Forum. Developers may find information for the pre-fork releases available at the Audacity Wiki.

Getting Started

Build instructions for Tenacity are available in the BUILDING.md file.

Contributing

To start contributing please read the CONTRIBUTING.md file.

Translation

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