This is the download link with the zip file

Here you go: https://www.audacityteam.org/download/

I've been using it for at least 20 years.

The audacity!😁

Hbd!

I've been using Audacity since 2006. Back then there weren't a lot of people that knew about this amazing audio editor THAT WAS FREE! I must have told a hundred people about it in all these years. I have used it to edit over 5000 songs I've downloaded, to one degree or another. THANK YOU AUDACITY !

It's installer had been compromised for a brief period, which was caught and remedied. It'a still open source, so it should be generally safe.

FossHub is still used as a mirror: https://www.fosshub.com/Audacity.html

I have no issues with GitHub right now though

The "without musehub" version is available from the Audacity website, but Windows users need to be very careful or they risk getting the musehub installer instead.

A safer alternative official place to get Audacity is from Audacity's GitHub repository.

Audacity is also available from FossHub. While this is no longer an official download location, they were Audacity's official download partner prior to Muse Group's acquisition.

For Windows users, Audacity is also available from the Microsoft Store, but this version may be slightly different, and it might not always be the latest version. Some people have reported that the MS Store version forces updates whether you want them or not, so I'm not recommending this version, just including it here for completeness.

I find it highly disappointing that Muse Group are undermining Audacity's reputation by their lack of transparency when pushing their commercial products to people that just want the free audio editor.

Good point. As an alternative the software downloads at the Videohelp forum are trustworthy

https://www.videohelp.com/software/Audacity

>"32-bit operating system".

32-bit Audacity will run on a 64-bit operating system, (the only way to use 32-bit plugins in Audcaity).

'Easy to use' ��

Audacity is as old as dirt, everyone knows about it. Why is it being advertised?

Wow, what a neat hidden gem you've discovered! I'm sure nobody in this subreddit has ever heard of this niche piece of software before!

Also, most people just download without even checking the URL.

This user is using a link shortening service to gain revenue off their links, hopefully the mods remove it and report him to the admins.

There are several download links for different versions of Audacity without MuseHub. Look for it on the official download page.

If you know exactly which version you want, you can download it from the official repository at GitHub.

Otherwise use the link that u/Neil_Hillist posted.

https://www.audacityteam.org/download/

wtf is moosehub

When you're on the main page don't click the download box but look right below it and click where it says Download without Muse Hub

That takes you to the same page as the link Neil_Hillist shared.

Reboot and/or reinstall. Nothing else you can do if you can’t open it.

Rename the "audacity" folder(s) in AppData\Roaming, (say, to "audacity_old1", "audacity_old2"...) . Then restart Audacity. (NB: If you have different versions of Audacity installed that can corrupt "audacity.cfg" as they will share that file, unless you have/create a "Portable Settings" folder for each version).

Why does Audacity have new owners?

I heard Audacity is going to change their License to other than GPL v2

>While it isn't written in the license, is it really fair to say it's free software when it violates freedom 0 via the privacy policy?

Er... kind of, but not really.

Strictly speaking, the GPL and the privacy policy cover two different things. The former is a copyright license (with some clauses related to patents), while a privacy policy covers the use of online services. Since the current project managers of Audacity (MuseGroup) intend to have analytics in the app, they need to have a privacy policy that explains how the data is used.

Note that the "not for people under 13 clause" is immediately after a EU GDPR collection disclosure. This tells me that this is primarily intended not to override the GPL, but to avoid US COPPA liability. In the US, you basically can't have any online services targeting people under the age of 13 - there is an informed consent procedure to actually provide such services, but it's both onerous and obsolete (involving, among other things, parents signing and mailing or faxing a permission slip), so nobody bothers. This is basically just a way of saying "we don't want any COPPA-scope data in our analytics system".

I'll put it to you another way: if someone under the age of 13 were to fork Audacity and remove the analytics code, they'd be entirely within their rights to do so under GPL and this privacy policy would have zero power over them (as they are no longer interacting with the online services that collect data). So if the conflict even exists, it's very minor and easily sidestepped. (Granted, they could have made compliance easier by making analytics opt-in, but...)

Predictably, there's a fork with the malware removed, although it seems to be looking for maintainers:

https://github.com/binaergewitter/audiocity

I think its still in a free software umbrella, but its certainly closer to the edge than before. I mean the source code is still around and easy to build/fork or whatever, and a computer telling kids not to do something never really stopped anyone.

that being said, yeah this is bad and should stop. Children are always smarter than they are given credit for, and should not be excluded.

I think the core of the issue is that tentecruel and the newer designers (credit where its due, good at design) don't get free software, but somehow are acting without any oversight? I haven't been paying super close attention to audacity because i have a lot going on right now. But it puzzles me that there isnt someone on clear-the-new-ppls-decisions-before-they-do-something-stupid. Like what they wanted to do with telemetry was mostly fine (ish), but they made a poorly made announcement, in a pull request, without warning, with proprietary solutions. If they had said they wanted to make a telemetry enabled version to get specific telemetry data to improve specific design features, and had done so in a open way where there could be input and clarification, and at the very least used libre telemetry, i think it would have been generally fine.

But they don't seem to get free software philosophically or culturally, and just steamrolled in with a half baked bad idea. and ugh its a pain. it really sucks to see this happening to such a frankly awesome, useful and just good, piece of widely used foss. but oh well