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    DarkAudacity: A Free, Cross-Platform Digital Audio Editor
      WWW: http://www.darkaudacity.com/
    
    DarkAudacity is a branch of Audacity(R).  Audacity is maintained by the 
    audacity team.
    
    I welcome feedback on DarkAudacity, suggestions for new or improved features, 
    bug reports and patches at:
      james@audacityteam.org .
    
    Audacity is copyright (c) 1999-2019 by Audacity Team. This copyright notice
    applies to all documents in the Audacity source code archive, except as
    otherwise noted (mostly in the lib-src subdirectories).
    
    The additions and changes to Audacity for DarkAudacity are (c) 2019 by
    James Crook.
    
    The documentation for Audacity is licensed under the Creative Commons
    Attribution 3.0 license:
    http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode .
    
    
    "Audacity" is a registered trademark of Dominic Mazzoni.
    
    DarkAudacity Version 2.3.2x 
    
    The x,y, and z suffixes indicate experimental releases.  DarkAudacity releases 
    are cutting edge releases.  Whilst I am careful about the changes I make, if 
    you want assurances about the degree of testing done, use an official Audacity 
    release that has been through the official Audacity QA process.
    
    
    
    Contents of this README:
    
    1.  Licensing
    2.  Changes since earlier versions.
    3.  Known Issues at Release
    4.  Source Code, Libraries and Additional Copyright Information
    
    --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    
    1. Licensing
    
    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
    under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
    Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
    option) any later version. The program source code is also freely
    available as per Section 4 of this README.
    
    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
    ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY
    or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public
    License for more details.
    
    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
    along with this program (in a file called LICENSE.txt); if not, go
    to http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html or write to
    
      Free Software Foundation, Inc.
      59 Temple Place - Suite 330
      Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
    
    
    -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    
    2. DarkAudacity 2.3.2x, changes since earlier versions.
    
     Many of the changes pioneered in Dark Audacity 2.1.3x have now ben integrated 
     into mainstream Audacity 2.3.2.  Audacity has updated its standard (light) 
     theme to use much of the new design.  Audacity now offers our dark theme as 
     a new option.  Audacity has reorganised its menus to be more compact.
    
     There isn't a lot of difference between DarkAudacity and Audacity.  That's
     mainly because I've been doing the work of modifying Audacity to have the
     new features.
    
     Dark Audacity is working well as a way to blaze new trails.  These are
     some key differences between DarkAudacity 2.3.2x and Audacity 2.3.2.
    
    
     * Interface:  
       * Dark is the default theme.
       * Mute and Solo buttons are stacked rather than side-by-side.
       * Larger cursor position indicator in Selection Toolbar.
       * Combined Device, Meter and Mixer toolbars into one simpler toolbar.
       * Option of LED meters (it's the new default).
       * Different Logos.
       * Clutter on left of track panel removed rather than moved to the bottom.
       
     * Other Changes:   
       * Installer ships without manual; Translations not installed; accessibility 
         support not enabled.  Only Windows.  [These save me a lot of time in 
         preparing a release - e.g 3 platforms = 3x the work.].
    
       
    Bug fixes:
     * 82 bugs we knew about in 2.1.2x addressed, 66 closed, 16 had some residual 
       problems after the fixes.  These issues included a dramatic slowdown when 
       using Lyrics Window with lots of lyrics (fully fixed), and labels 
       being written at the wrong position in some circumstances (fully fixed). I'm
       not listing all these issues, but this gives an idea of the kind of issue.
     * At least as much work has gone into other issues which we did not know about 
       when we released 2.1.2x.  These were for example caused by work on new 
       features, and usually were in those features, or came to light as a result 
       of code review (mostly code review by Paul).
    
     
    -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    
    3. Known Issues in 2.3.2x:
    
    Please see the facebook page for DarkAudacity for discussion of issues.
    
    Many issues that affect Audacity 2.3.2 will affect DarkAudacity 2.3.2x too, 
    since DarkAudacity and Audacity have a lot of code in common.  Many Audacity 
    2.3.2 issues are listed here:
    
      http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Release_Notes_2.3.2
    
    
    
    -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    
    4.  Source Code, Libraries and Additional Copyright Information
    
    Source code to this program is always available; for more information visit:
    
      http://audacityteam.org/download/source - for Audacity
      https://github.com/JamesCrook/audacity - for DarkAudacity branch.
      
    Audacity is built upon other free libraries; some of these libraries may have
    come with Audacity in the lib-src directory.  Others you are expected to install
    first if you want Audacity to have certain capabilities.  Most of these libraries
    are not distributed under the terms of the GPL, but rather some other free,
    GPL-compatible license.  Specifically:
    
      expat: BSD-like license.
        Provides XML parsing.  Included with Audacity.
    
      FFmpeg: GPL or LGPL (according to how you obtain/configure it)
        Provides decoding/encoding of additional formats. Optional separate
        download.
    
      libid3tag: GPL
        Reads/writes ID3 tags in MP3 files.  Optional
        separate download as part of libmad.
    
      libflac: Xiph.Org BSD-like licence (the parts we use)
        Decodes and Encodes Free Lossless Audio Codec files. Optional separate
        download.
    
      libmad: GPL
        Decodes MP3 files.  Optional separate download.
    
      libnyquist: BSD-like license.
        Functional language for manipulating audio; available
        within Audacity for effects processing.
    
      libogg: BSD-like license.
        Optional separate download, along with libvorbis.
    
      libsndfile: LGPL
        Reads and writes uncompressed PCM audio files.
        Included with Audacity.
    
      libsoxr: LGPL
        The SoX Resampler library performs one-dimensional sample-rate conversion.
    
      libvamp: new-style BSD
        Plug-in interface and support library for audio analysis plug-ins.
        Included with Audacity.
    
      libvorbis: BSD-like license.
        Decodes and encodes Ogg Vorbis files.  Optional
        separate download.
    
      lv2: a merging of the lilv (ISC license), lv2 (LGPL), msinttypes, serd (ISC), 
        sord, sratom, and suil libraries to support LV2 plug-ins. 
    
      portsmf: BSD-like license.
        library for reading and writing midi files. Included with Audacity
    
      sbsms: GPL v2
        Pitch and tempo changing library. Included in Audacity
    
      SoundTouch: LGPL
        Changes tempo without changing pitch and vice versa.
        Included in audacity
    
      Twolame: LGPL
        Encodes MPEG I layer 2 audio (used in DVDs and Radio). Optional separate
        download.
    
      wxWidgets: wxWindows license (based on LGPL)
        Cross-platform GUI library - must be downloaded and
        compiled separately.
    
    
    For more information, see the documentation inside each library's
    source code directory.
    
    --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Additional copyright information:
    --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    
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