In April 2021, it was announced that Muse Group (owners of MuseScore and Ultimate Guitar free open source software for music composition and production) would acquire the Audacity trademark and continue to develop the application, which remains free and open source. Most of its changes were eventually incorporated into the mainline version and the fork ended. In 2019, then-lead developer James Crook started the fork DarkAudacity to experiment with a new look and other UX changes. With over 114.1 million downloads since March 2015, Audacity was registered as the most popular download software, after being previously downloaded 200 million times from other sources. The project was started in 1999 by Dominic Mazzoni and Roger Dannenberg at Carnegie Mellon University, and released on May 28, 2000. Audacity, for those who don't remember or are not familiar with it, is a free and open-source digital audio editor and recording software, available for Windows, macOS, Linux, and other Unix-like operating systems.

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