{"id":9695,"date":"2021-05-04T12:26:38","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T12:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=9695"},"modified":"2021-05-04T12:26:38","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T12:26:38","slug":"muse-group-acquires-audacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=9695","title":{"rendered":"Muse Group acquires Audacity"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.audacityteam.org\/download\/\">Audacity<\/a> is a great free and open source audio editor, which is available for all major computing platforms &#8211; Linux, Mac and Windows. It&#8217;s one of the free and open source software packages I recommend in my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?page_id=391\">list of free and open source software<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<figure id=\"attachment_9713\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9713\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-9713\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2021\/05\/05-Audio-and-MIDI-on-Linux-768x567-1-600x443.png\" alt=\"Audacity running on Linux, audio track and MIDI track playing\" width=\"600\" height=\"443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2021\/05\/05-Audio-and-MIDI-on-Linux-768x567-1-600x443.png 600w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2021\/05\/05-Audio-and-MIDI-on-Linux-768x567-1-300x221.png 300w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2021\/05\/05-Audio-and-MIDI-on-Linux-768x567-1.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9713\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Audacity running on Linux, audio track and MIDI track playing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n<p>Today <a>The Register reports<\/a> that Audacity has been purchased by Muse Group, which has promised to keep the platform free and open source.<\/p>\r\n<p>The deal was announced on 30th April by Martin Keary, who is Head Of Design at MuseScore, an open-source notation software package also owned by Muse Group, and who will now \u201cmanage Audacity in partnership with its open-source community\u201d. The financial details of the deal have not been disclosed.<\/p>\r\n<p>Audacity <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2021\/03\/19\/audacity_3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">received a major update<\/a> to version 3.0 in March, some 20 years since its first version 1.0 was released. Among the new release&#8217;s features were a new file format, analyser and a multitude of bug fixes.<\/p>\r\n<p>In addition Keary announced that the project was seeking to recruit &#8220;<em>a few key positions for senior developers or designers who have experience in audio or music tech<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\r\n<p>A video was also released to coincide with the announcement.<\/p>\r\n<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto;\"  id=\"_ytid_61724\"  width=\"600\" height=\"338\"  data-origwidth=\"600\" data-origheight=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RMWNvwLiXIQ?enablejsapi=1&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&rel=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"The Story Behind Audacity\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Audacity is a great free and open source audio editor, which is available for all major computing platforms &#8211; Linux, Mac and Windows. It&#8217;s one of the free and open source software packages I recommend in my list of free and open source software. Today The Register reports that Audacity has been purchased by Muse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,9],"tags":[19,12,23],"class_list":["post-9695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux-and-os-matters","category-open-source-software","category-tech","tag-free-software","tag-open-source","tag-tech-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9695"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9716,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9695\/revisions\/9716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}