Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Technology journalist specializing in audio, computing and Apple Macs. One of the best pieces of free audio software has just had ...

Muse Group, the new owner of audio-editing app Audacity, caused a stir in recent days with an update to the software's privacy policy. It stated that Muse Group will collect users' personal data and ...

Audacity 3.0 has been released with a new AUP3 file format that makes it harder for projects to become damaged and to increase performance while editing audio. In the past, when saving an Audacity ...

Recent changes to the Audacity privacy policy have led to some users calling the audio-editing app spyware. The open-source software is now collecting user data for "app analytics" and "improving our ...

The audacity: Acquisitions often make or break businesses, and it appears to be troubling times ahead for Audacity. The go-to free and open-source audio editing software for over 21 years may have ...

Audacity is a popular free and open-source audio editing utility available for Windows, Mac, and Linux computers. Under development for more than two decades, the software now has a robust and ...

Tenacity is a forked version of Audacity, but this open-source audio editor was born out of necessity when Audacity's ...

After more than 25 years, audio editing software Audacity is undergoing a major overhaul with version 4, scheduled for release in early 2026, to simplify the user experience and modernize its ...

One of open source software's biggest strengths is, naturally, its openness, which brings other benefits like freedom of use, security through scrutiny, flexibility, and more. That is mostly thanks to ...

The Audacity audio editor has been a staple of many a user's multimedia toolkits for over 20 years and has had over 100 million downloads. It is described as a free, open source, cross-platform audio ...