Is Audacity for Mac OS X Development Dead?
January 7, 2008
Audacity is a free, easy-to-use audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
You can use Audacity to Record live audio, convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs, edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, and WAV sound files, cut, copy, splice, and mix sounds together, change the speed or pitch of a recording, and more.
Audacity has been used by many podcasters as an entry-level podcasting tool, appears to be dead on the Mac platform.
Podcasting News is reporting that richardash1981 at the Audacity Team Forum said “There is currently no one with a Mac actively contributing to the development of Audacity, hence at the moment no Mac releases. 1.3.4 for OS X will appear when someone volunteers to compile it and sort the remaining bugs out.”
If you’re a Mac OS X developer, now is the time to act. Join the Audacity Team Forum to bring this release to the public.
You can download Audacity free and learn the basics of recording, editing and mixing with Audacity by reading their helpful tutorials.
Excellent!
I put out the call a couple days ago too:
http://someaudioguy.blogspot.com/2008/01/audacity-development-for-mac-call-for.html
As much attention as possible is a good thing. This is a fantastic piece of software which can rival a lot of paid software. If anyone out there can help, I’m sure it would be greatly appreciated.
I also just recently wrote up some other DAW software, which you can check out here:
http://someaudioguy.blogspot.com/2008/01/traverso-free-audio-software-simplicity.html
It’s amazing what you can accomplish with free software these days! We should all try to encourage and support!