This latter case appears to be the issue befalling A 3 Audio. So, the developers have done the next best thing, made the project open source, and are actively looking for more people to pitch in.

Audacity is an open source audio recording and editing software that lets you capture, trim, edit, and work with sounds on your computer — all for free. Because Audacity is open source ...

Audio-edit software Audacity has denied accusations its new privacy policy has transformed it into "possible spyware". The open-source free tool, with 100 million users worldwide, is popular with ...