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What percent of users and experts removed it?
3% remove it97% keep it
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How common is it?
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Audacity, the Free, Cross-Platform Sound Editor 1.3.13
What is Audacity, the Free, Cross-Platform Sound Editor?
Audacity is a free digital audio editor and recording application. As well as recording audio from multiple sources, Audacity can also be used for post-processing of all types of audio, including podcasts by adding effects such as normalization, trimming, and fading in and out. Audacity does not directly support WMA, AAC, or most other proprietary or restricted file formats. To import or export AC3, AMR(NB), M4A, WMA and other proprietary formats, requires the optional FFmpeg library.
About (from Audacity Team)
Audacity is a free, easy-to-use and multilingual audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. You can use Audacity to record live audio. Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs. Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WAV or AIFF sound files. Cut, copy, splice or mix sounds tog... Read more
Overview
A scheduled task is added to Windows Task Scheduler in order to launch the program at various scheduled times (the schedule varies depending on the version). The main program executable is audacity.exe. The software installer includes 9 files and is usually about 14.39 MB (15,086,650 bytes).
Program details
URL: audacity.sourceforge.net
Installation folder: C:\Program Files\audacity 1.3.13
Uninstaller: C:\Program Files\Audacity 1.3.13\Uninstall.exe
Estimated size: 14.39 MB
Files installed by Audacity, the Free, Cross-Platform Sound Editor 1.3.13
| Program executable: | audacity.exe |
| Name: | Audacity® |
| Audacity®, the Free, Cross-Platform Sound Editor |
| Path: | C:\Program Files\audacity 1.3.13\audacity.exe |
| MD5: | 482776f7be0eaa959b9b8f98c996c6f1 |
Additional files:
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Uninstall.exe
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msvcp90.dll (by Microsoft) - Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2008 (Microsoft® C++ Runtime Library)
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msvcr90.dll (by Microsoft) - Microsoft® C Runtime Library
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wxbase28u_net_vc_custom.dll (by wxWidgets development team) - wxWidgets (wxWidgets for MSW)
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wxbase28u_vc_custom.dll (by wxWidgets development team)
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wxmsw28u_adv_vc_custom.dll
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wxmsw28u_core_vc_custom.dll
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wxmsw28u_html_vc_custom.dll
Behaviors exhibited
Scheduled Task
- audacity.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{95F6ECED-9551-4E42-842A-5E0AF702B8D3}' (runs on registration).
How do I remove Audacity, the Free, Cross-Platform Sound Editor?
You can uninstall Audacity, the Free, Cross-Platform Sound Editor from your computer by using the Add/Remove Program feature in the Window's Control Panel.
- On the Start menu (for Windows 8, right-click the screen's bottom-left corner), click Control Panel, and then, under Programs, do one of the following:
- Windows Vista/7/8/10: Click Uninstall a Program.
- Windows XP: Click Add or Remove Programs.
- When you find the program Audacity®, the Free, Cross-Platform Sound Editor 1.3.13, click it, and then do one of the following:
- Windows Vista/7/8/10: Click Uninstall.
- Windows XP: Click the Remove or Change/Remove tab (to the right of the program).
- Follow the prompts. A progress bar shows you how long it will take to remove Audacity, the Free, Cross-Platform Sound Editor.
OS VERSIONS
Win 7 (SP1) 53%
Win XP 6%
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USER ACTIONS
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Uninstall it 3%
Keep it 97%
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COUNTRY POPULARITY
42.86%
United States
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Windows
Which Windows OS versions does it run on?
| Windows 7 |
64.71% |
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| Windows 10 |
23.53% |
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| Windows Vista |
5.88% |
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| Windows XP |
5.88% |
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Which OS releases does it run on? |
| Windows 7 Home Premium |
35.29% |
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| Windows 8 |
17.65% |
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| Windows 7 Ultimate |
17.65% |
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| Windows Vista Home Premiu... |
5.88% |
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| Windows Se7en Titan |
5.88% |
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| Windows 7 Professional |
5.88% |
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Geography
42.86% of installs come from the United States
Which countries install it?
| United States |
42.86% |
| United Kingdom |
9.52% |
| India |
4.76% |
| DZ |
4.76% |
| New Zealand |
4.76% |
| Romania |
4.76% |
| Israel |
4.76% |
| Netherlands |
4.76% |
| Germany |
4.76% |
| Croatia |
4.76% |
| Canada |
4.76% |
| Italy |
4.76% |
PC manufacturers
What PC manufacturers (OEMs) have it installed?
| Hewlett-Packard |
30.77% |
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| Lenovo |
15.38% |
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| Dell |
15.38% |
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| Acer |
15.38% |
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| Sony |
7.69% |
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| ASUS |
7.69% |
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| Toshiba |
7.69% |
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Common models |
| HP Pavilion 17 Notebook P... |
14.29% |
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| TOSHIBA Satellite L350 |
7.14% |
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| HP Pavilion dv6 Notebook ... |
7.14% |
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| Dell XPS One 2710 |
7.14% |
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| Dell Studio 1555 |
7.14% |
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| Sony VPCEB43FD |
7.14% |
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About Audacity Team
Audacity was started by Dominic Mazzoni and Roger Dannenberg at Carnegie Mellon University and was released as open-source software at SourceForge.net in 2000.
Publisher URL: web.audacityteam.org