Is audacity safe to download for windows 8?

Audacity was a perfectly clean and safe download each of the 4 times I've downloaded and installed it on 4 different computers over the past 10 years. When I downloaded an upgrade last Spring, it was still a clean and safe download.

Unfortunately, I just found out last night that SourceForge now bundles Open Candy, specifically the Ask.com toolbar, with its downloads:-( This isn't a virus but it's still something we don't want and that we don't want hidden from us during installation and installed without our consent. You can opt out of this during installation but you have to keep an eye peeled for the option and watch every page of the installation. I also read that, instead of just UNchecking the Ask toolbar option, you have to cancel the installation page it's on.

I haven't found out yet of the developers of Audacity have opted out of the Ask toolbar in their installation. When (or "if") I find out, I'll add what I find to this answer. Until then it's probably best to wait to install Audacity.

Didn't find an answer but found safer downloads. Audacity has moved copies of both the installer and the Zip file from SourceForge to Google Code.

https://code.google.com/p/audacity/downloads/list

http://www.flickr.com/photos/22020217@N05/11228213...

Instead of downloading the exe file, you can download the Zip folder. This is a "portable" version that runs from an application file and doesn't install on your computer. It's also a smaller download. After you extract the Zip file (I usually extract to my Desktop), open the folder and you'll see the Audacity graphic. This is what you double click on to open the program. You'll also see a Plugins folder. This is the only "problem" of a portable program: adding additional effects means that during their installation you have to use a pathway to the portable version's folder. But you won't need or want more plugins until you get used to using Audacity.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/22020217@N05/11228384...

The Read Me file is just the End User's License Agreement - the long legal thing in all software.

Audacity For Windows 8

A few of those things "could" be paranormal activity, but the thing is that they don't fit any clear pattern. The main sign of paranormal activity (Other than freaky stuff happening) is that the activity is consistent. The same thing happens in the same place over and over again. Often over the space of several hundred years. It's unheard of for one person to experience so many different forms of paranormal activity. Even if they lived in a haunted house form birth to their hundreds birthday a person would never experience such variety. The chances of you running across so many unrelated paranormal events is pretty much zero. I'd say that maybe one of two of them could possibly maybe be real paranormal events, but only if your house has a history of such events, but the odds are that they are all in your head. FYI. Nature spirits don't exist, and "orb" are either tricks of your mind or are the result of photographic flashes reflecting off of dust particles in the air.

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