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Audacity is a cross-platform audio editing application.

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USE flags

USE flags for media-sound/audacity Free crossplatform audio editor

`alsa`	Add support for media-libs/alsa-lib (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture)
`audiocom`	Enable integrated uploading to audio.com
`doc`	Add extra documentation (API, Javadoc, etc). It is recommended to enable per package instead of globally
`ffmpeg`	Enable ffmpeg/libav-based audio/video codec support
`flac`	Add support for FLAC: Free Lossless Audio Codec
`id3tag`	Enables ID3 tagging with id3tag library
`jack`	Add support for the JACK Audio Connection Kit
`ladspa`	Enable the ability to support ladspa plugins
`lv2`	Add support for Ladspa V2
`mad`	Add support for mad (high-quality mp3 decoder library and cli frontend)
`mpg123`	Use media-sound/mpg123-base instead of media-libs/libmad for MPEG decoding
`ogg`	Add support for the Ogg container format (commonly used by Vorbis, Theora and flac)
`opus`	Enable Opus audio codec support
`oss`	Add support for OSS (Open Sound System)
`portmidi`	Enable support for MIDI via media-libs/portmidi
`portmixer`	Enable the internal portmixer feature
`portsmf`	Enable support for Portable Standard Midi File Library
`sbsms`	Enables sbsms library support for slower, more accurate pitch and tempo changing
`test`	Enable dependencies and/or preparations necessary to run tests (usually controlled by FEATURES=test but can be toggled independently)
`twolame`	Enables twolame support (MPEG Audio Layer 2 encoder)
`vamp`	Enables vamp plugins support (Audio analysing plugins)
`vorbis`	Add support for the OggVorbis audio codec
`vst`	Enable VST plugin support
`wavpack`	Add support for wavpack audio compression tools

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Note
Audacity uses PortAudio as its audio API, you may wish to set the USE flags for media-libs/portaudio to add or remove support for an audio backend from Audacity.

Emerge

root #emerge --ask media-sound/audacity

Troubleshooting

JACK missing as a host

If the USE flag jack is enabled for media-libs/portaudio, and JACK still isn't available; it's likely because JACK isn't running. See the article JACK on help setting it up.

If using Pipewire, you can use it as a JACK replacement by enabling the USE flag jack-sdk for media-libs/portaudio.