Open Source audio editor Audacity is now part of MuseGroup

Martin Brinkmann
May 3, 2021
Updated • May 3, 2021
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Audacity is one of the most popular free cross-platform open source audio editors. It can be downloaded and used on Windows, Mac OS and GNU/Linux machines, and is regularly updated and quite accessible.

Audacity, as an open source project, is maintained by a group of contributors. Anyone may download the source code of the program and compile it, or contribute code to the project.

We have followed the development of the audio editor for years, and even published a few tutorials here on this site. Did you know that you may use Audacity to merge Mp3 or Wav files, or to generate and save white noise audio files?

The first mention of Audacity dates back to 2008 when we published a tutorial on creating ringtones using the software and YouTube. Ringtones, at least in the original form, have faded away.

Muse Group was formed last week. It is best known for its open source MuseScore music notations application and for Ultimate Guitar. Ultimate Guitar founder Eugeny Naidenov is the first chairman of Muse Group. Naidenov aquired MuseScore in 2017 and announced the acquisition of Audacity this week in a YouTube video.

Audacity is listed as one of two projects on the company's website, but the official Audacity website makes no mention of the change. There is no press release yet either, and details are a bit murky at the time of writing, the exact terms of the acquisition are not known, for example.

Existing Audacity users may be interested in the project's future. Acquisitions may lead to undesirable changes or even the discontinuation of a program, but this appears not to be the case for Audacity. Naidenov revealed plans in the video to contribute to the project and hire senior developers and designers. More contributors could improve development; light non-destructive UX changes may be part of upcoming releases.

While it is too early to tell where the acquisition will take Audacity, it may take the audio editor to the next level by introducing more developers and a larger community to the project. A look at the group's open source music notation software MuseScore shows how this could pan out in the future.

Audacity, being an open source program, can be forked if the project takes wrong turns along the road.

Now You: what is your take on the change? Do you use Audacity?

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Open Source audio editor Audacity is now part of MuseGroup
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  1. Anonymous said on August 1, 2010 at 12:43 pm
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    Why not make use of the mplayer.conf?

  2. Mike J said on August 1, 2010 at 2:58 pm
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    Huh, I have never even seen this “font cache” pane; videos play at once for me, using VLC & XP SP3.

    1. Martin said on August 1, 2010 at 3:39 pm
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      Mike, in theory this should have only been displayed once to you, at the very first video that you played with VLC. The time this window is displayed depends largely on the number of fonts in your font directory.

      1. Mike J said on August 2, 2010 at 2:30 pm
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        huh, I lucked out for a change?? Amazing!!
        Apparently VLC keeps this info through version updates, but I didn’t see this message after a fresh OS install about 8 weeks ago, & a new VLC.

  3. myo said on August 1, 2010 at 5:52 pm
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    yes, yes, i have the same problem. sometimes, VLC crashes when it is playing .mov file.

  4. Kishore said on August 13, 2010 at 2:55 pm
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    Error:
    Buidling font Cache pop-up

    Solution:

    Open VLC player.

    On Menu Bar:

    Tools
    Preferences

    (at bottom – left side)
    Show settings — ALL

    Open: Video
    Click: Subtitles/OSD (This is now highlited, not opened)
    Text rendering module – change this to “Dummy font renderer function”

    Save
    Exit

    Re-open – done.
    Progam will no longer look outside self for fonts

    Source – WorthyTricks.co.cc

    1. Martin said on August 13, 2010 at 3:10 pm
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      Great tip, thanks a lot Kishore.

  5. javier said on August 14, 2010 at 1:50 pm
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    @Kishore, I’ll try your tips, but does this mean it will no longer show subtitles either?
    I do use subtitles, but the fontcache dialog box pops up (almost) everytime I play a file.

    Could this be related to the fonts I have installed? Or if I add/remove fonts to my system?

    I’ll try to do a fresh install also, if your tips does no work. I’ll post back here later…

    /thanks
    /j

  6. Kishore said on August 15, 2010 at 12:38 pm
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    @ Javier, The trick i posted will show up subtitles too. If not,

  7. Kishore said on August 15, 2010 at 12:39 pm
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    @ Javier, The trick i posted will show up subtitles too. If not,Dont worry, VLC is currently sorting out this issue and the next version will be out soon.

    No probs @ Martin !! Its my pleasure

  8. Ted said on October 22, 2010 at 3:57 am
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    Try running LC with administrator privileges. That seemed to fix it for me

  9. Evan said on December 8, 2013 at 1:48 am
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    I am using SMplayer 0.8.6 (64-bit) (Portable Edition) on Windows 7 x64. Even with the -nofontconfig parameter in place SMplayer still scans the fonts. Also, I have enabled normal subtitles and it is still scanning fonts before playing a video. Also, it does this every time the player opens a video after a system restart (only the fist video played).

  10. Mike Williams said on September 6, 2023 at 1:26 pm
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    Does that mean that only instrumental versions of songs will be available for non-paying users?

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