Music soothes the savage breast, but newcomers to the sonic scene may screech louder than a dubstep-tinged turntable session when they see the cost of professional audio-editing software. Fortunately ...

To download Audacity, you'll just need to head to the Audacity downloading hub, which you can reach through the official Audacity website. There are separate Audacity download files for Mac and PC.

Audacity, an open source multitrack audio editor, has versions for Linux/Unix, MacOS and Windows. If all you do with audio files is play them, then Audacity could be much more than you need. This is ...