This is a patch release. It fixes the following bugs:

• #7797 Effects can be applied to time-stretched clips.

• #7620 Moving or renaming the installation directory no longer re-enables disabled modules.

• #7652 Opening the "Adjust Playback Speed" dialog doesn't crash Audacity anymore.

This is a hotfix release. It contains the following change:

• Reverted deleting edges of clips being non-destructive due to a large range of unforseen side-effects.

  • This fixes joining clips becoming offset

  • This fixes cutting always creating new clips

This is a patch release. It contains the following changes:

• Added a new welcome/what's new screen.

• OpenVINO effects are now available on macOS. More about that can be found in this blogpost.

• OpenVINO effects can now be found via the Get Effects button. (NB, this is a slow rollout - you may not see it there just yet at the time of release)

• OpenVINO effects have been recategorized into their own category in the Effect menu. This also goes for the transcription and music generator feature, previously found in the Generate and Analyze menus, respectively.

• Fixed a crash when closing a large unsaved project.

• Fixed a crash when using real-time effects that activate delay compensation.

• Fixed issue where Studio Fade Out creates a new clip when applied at the end of a clip.

• Fixed incorrect waveform rendering on clipped audio.

• Fixed unintended deletion of a clip when joining two clips with pitch adjustment.

• Effect preview now works when the track is muted.

• Fixed possible incorrect calculations in the Hamming window derivative. (Thanks, witwald!)

• Fixed compilation issues on legacy macOS (Thanks, barracuda156!)

This is a patch release. It contains the following changes:

• Beta: #8942 Windows on ARM support. (Thanks, Vasanth K (@vask2108) and Linaro!)

• #9121 FLAC importer now supports 32-bit PCM. (Thanks, Dr. K. D. Murray (@kdm9)!)

• #8851 Fixed crash when rendering spectrum view. (Thanks, Hailey Somerville (@haileys)!)

• Fixed lost focus when registration window was closed.

• Fixed crash on wav import. (when audio file is up to 7 ms long)

• Fixed crash when using Macro Wizard.

• , Updated libopus to 1.5.2, updated libcurl to 8.12.1, updated libpng to 1.6.50

The 3.7.x series is primarily maintenance releases while we're working on Audacity 4.0. 3.7.0 fixes the following bugs:

Changes

• Improved Linux compatibility.

This is a patch release. It contains the following changes:

• #8290 Fixed a crash when applying some effects across multiple tracks if one track is empty.

• #8157, #8155 Fixed some crashes emenating from the Mixer window.

• #7672 Returned the "Residue" option in noise reduction. (Thanks, Christopher Rooney!)

• Modules are now allowed to stick around when patch releases like this one are published. This means you likely won't need to update the OpenVINO again during 3.7.x.

• When adding a realtime effect to a track, the effect settings are now opened immediately.

• Added an infobox when saving a project in a new version breaks compatibility with an old one.

• Added a preference to turn off automatic tempo detection.

• When duplicating tracks, the duplicated tracks now have independent realtime effect instances.

• Fixed range-selection beyond the edge of a clip being destructive.

• , , , , , , Improved stability of cloud saving.

• Fixed pasting content from a clip at the beginning of itself being offset in time.

• macOS: Fixed AUSoundIsolation.

• Fixed audacity continuing to scroll after letting go of the scrollbar.

• Fixed black stripes appearing when zooming in while in the envelope or multi-tool.

• Added a new "get effects" button next to the Upload Audio button.

• Added UUID instance support. See for further info.

• Fixed label texts using the wrong color in dark themes. (Thanks, GovindaMadhava!)

• Fixed tracks being incorrectly drawn on high zoom levels using high precision trackpads.

• Linux: Fixed FFmpeg loading in the Ubuntu 22.04 AppImage.

• Fixed crossfading tracks on stretched clips.

• You no longer need to click OK twice to exit the label editor in some edit states. (Thanks, Kurtsley!)

• Playback quality is now the same as rendering quality by default.

This is a patch release. It fixes the following bugs:

• #7310 Fixed another crash when exiting Audacity. (Thanks, Joe Souza!)

• #7312 Fixed projects not being compacted on close.

This is a patch release. It fixes the following bug:

• #7266 Fixed a crash when exiting Audacity. (Thanks, Joe Souza!)

Audacity 3.2.1 was released on 05 Oct 2022

This is a patch release for Audacity 3.2. It fixes some bugs.

Changes and improvements since previous version

• #3686 Fixed Audacity crashing on startup on some systems.

• Fixed a crash when applying Waves Berzerk Distortion Mono to a mono track.

• Fixed a freeze when very quickly starting and stopping playback.

• macOS: Homebrew FFmpeg installs are now found automatically.

• macOS: Fixed Melda VST Plugin UI.

• Building with VST3 support is now possible without Conan.

A full list of changes can be found .

Supported Platforms

Windows

• Audacity 3.2 supports Windows 10 & 11

  • Windows Vista, 7 and 8.1 should still work, but are no longer tested.

  • Downloads for older versions are available on the page on the Audacity Website.

macOS / Mac OS X

• Audacity 3.2 supports OS X 10.9 and later, and macOS.

  • There are legacy versions for older OS X at .

Linux

• In addition to the traditional update path via package managers, Audacity 3.0.3 and onwards are distributed as an AppImage. The AppImage gets updated at the same time as the Windows and macOS versions, so if you collaborate with users on those platforms, you may want to use the AppImage over your distribution's package manager.

• Linux support is tested on Ubuntu 20.04.

  • Other Linux distributions should work, but aren't tested by the Audacity team.

Audacity 3.2.5 was released on 1 Mar 2023

This is a hotfix release. It fixes the following bug:

• #4374 Fixed a bug where Audacity could accidentally spam audio.com

Supported platforms

Windows

• Audacity 3.2 supports Windows 10 & 11

  • Windows Vista, 7 and 8.1 should still work, but are no longer tested.

  • Downloads for older versions are available on the page on the Audacity Website.

macOS / Mac OS X

• Audacity 3.2 supports OS X 10.9 and later, and macOS.

  • There are legacy versions for older OS X at .

Linux

• In addition to the traditional update path via package managers, Audacity 3.0.3 and onwards are distributed as an AppImage. The AppImage gets updated at the same time as the Windows and macOS versions, so if you collaborate with users on those platforms, you may want to use the AppImage over your distribution's package manager.

• Linux support is tested on Ubuntu 20.04.

  • Other Linux distributions should work, but aren't tested by the Audacity team.

Audacity 3.0.5 was released on 29 Sep 2021.

Changes and improvements since previous version

Audacity 3.0.5 replaces all previous macOS versions.

This is a hotfix release that fixes a bug on macOS that could corrupt project files when being opened via cmd+o on languages where the decimal separator wasn't a dot.

Other than that, this release is identical to Version 3.0.3.

Supported Platforms

Windows

• Audacity 3.0.5 requires the CPU to support the instruction set which should be available on any Intel hardware produced after 2001 and any AMD hardware produced after 2003.

  • To check what SSE levels your CPU supports, you can install .

  • If your hardware only supports SSE, you may download Audacity 2.0.6 see the page on the Audacity Website.

macOS / Mac OS X

• Audacity 3.0.5 is for Intel Macs running OS X 10.7 and later and macOS.

  • There are legacy versions for older OS X at .

Linux

• In addition to the traditional update path via package managers, Audacity 3.0.3 and onwards are distributed as an AppImage. The AppImage gets updated at the same time as the Windows and macOS versions, so if you collaborate with users on those platforms, you may want to use the AppImage over your distribution's package manager.

• Linux support is tested on Ubuntu Linux.

  • Other Linux distributions should work, but aren't tested by the Audacity team.

This page is an overview of prominent new functionality that has been introduced in Audacity 3.0.4

Version 3.0.4 is a hotfix release.

Contents

Fixed a bug with envelope points, which could multiply uncontrollably and cause Audacity to crash. In particular:

• : Envelope points are multiplied when using Filter Curve EQ or Graphic EQ

• : Filter Curve EQ will crash if there is an envelope point outside of the selection

Updating from Audacity 2.x to Audacity 3.x

With the release of Audacity 3.0.0 the project file structure of Audacity was changed significantly with the entire project contained in a single unified database file.

If you have already updated to any 3.x version you should already be aware of this.

But if you are updating from any earlier 2.x Audacity version please read Updating from Audacity 2.x to Audacity 3.x.

Audacity 3.x can usually open AUP files created in older 2.x.x versions of Audacity, but saving the project in 3.x will prevent it opening again in Audacity versions prior to 3.0.0.

• Note that this will leave behind the old AUP file and its associated _data folder which you will probably want to delete to recover disk space.

• Audacity version 3.x should be able to open projects from Audacity 1.1 onwards - but not from 1.0

This is a hotfix release. It fixes the following bugs:

• #6322 Fixed a crash on launch on macOS 11 and older.

• #6324 Fixed the update notification looking for alpha versions instead of release versions.

• #6321 Fixed a freeze when using macros on multiple files.

Supported Platforms

Windows

• Audacity 3.5 is tested on Windows 10 & 11

  • Windows Vista, 7 and 8.1 may still work, but are no longer tested.

macOS / Mac OS X

• Audacity 3.5 is tested on macOS 14

  • Any macOS version since OS X 10.9 may still work, but is no longer tested.

Linux

• Linux support is tested with AppImages on Ubuntu 22.04.

  • Other Linux distributions should work, but aren't tested by the Audacity team.

  • On some distributions, libfuse2 needs to be installed for AppImages to work. See for more information.

This page is an overview of prominent new functionality that has been introduced in Audacity 2.4.1

• Details of all the major changes since 2.4.0 can be found in Audacity 2.4.1.

No new features

There were no new features in 2.4.1 - this was an emergency bug-fix release for a critical P1 bug.

Bug Fixes

Key P1 bugs fixed

• P1 - Lost/corrupted audio data after pasting into empty project

Links

- detailed release notes for this release of Audacity

This is a hotfix release. It fixes the following bugs:

• #6889 Fixed a crash when exporting multichannel audio.

• #6882 Fixed a crash when pasting mono clips into stereo tracks.

• #4763 (Accessibility) Made more values available when using the plain UI of plugins. (Thanks, David Bailes!)

• #Prevented incompatible versions from opening projects created in 3.6.x.

• #Fixed the dark theme sometimes having white corners in buttons.

Audacity 3.0.4 was released on 24. Aug 2021.

Changes and improvements since previous version

Audacity 3.0.4 replaces all previous versions.

This is a hotfix release that fixes a bug with envelope points, which could multiply uncontrollably and cause Audacity to crash. In particular:

Audacity 3.2.3 was released on 27 Dec 2022

This is a patch release for Audacity 3.2. It adds ability to share audio publicly and fixes some bugs.

Changes

• Audio can now be shared publicly on audio.com

This page is an overview of the key new functionality that has been introduced in Audacity 2.2.1

• Details of all the major changes since 2.2.0 can be found in .

• 2.2.1 is a very light release, basically a maintenance release, with one new exciting feature added. Plus we wanted to experiment with shorter release cycles.

Audacity 3.2.2 was released on 06 Dec 2022

This is a patch release for Audacity 3.2. It enables use of VST2 as realtime effects and fixes some bugs.

Changes and improvements since previous version

• VST2 effects are now realtime capable. Additional plugins have been added to

Audacity 3.1.1 was released on 11. Nov 2021.

Changes and improvements since previous version

Audacity 3.1.1 replaces all previous versions.

This is a hotfix release. It fixes the following bugs:

Audacity 3.3.3 was released on 08 Jun 2023.

This is a hotfix release. It fixes the following bugs:

• Fixed EQ not scaling properly when resizing the window.

• Fixed the upload flow.

Audacity 3.3.2 was released on 5. May 2023.

This is a hotfix release.

Bug Fixes

• Linux AppImage fails to start.

Audacity 3.2.4 was released on 27 Jan 2023

This is a hotfix release. It fixes the following bug:

• # Fixed the meters not retaining size

A full list of changes can be found .

This is a hotfix release. It fixes the following bugs:

• Fix 24-bit recording.

• Fix a crash with .aup importing.

Audacity 3.1.2 was released on 16. Nov 2021.

Changes and improvements since previous version

Audacity 3.1.2 is a hotfix release for Audacity 3.1.

It fixes the following bugs:

This page is an appendix to New features in Audacity 2.2.0. It is an overview of further new functionality that has been introduced in Audacity 2.2.0

• Details of all the major changes since 2.1.3 can be found in Audacity 2.2.0.

Sync-Lock

used to be a button in the edit toolbar. Now instead you enable or disable it from Tracks > Sync-Lock Tracks.

This should make it easier for users to avoid setting Sync-Lock on by accident by inadvertently nudging the button.

Easier Selection at

Left-clicking on a will delete the clip line, merging the two neighbouring clips.

Now if you hover over the Clip line and press and release the Esc key you can then click on the clip line and select from there by dragging, without deleting the clip line and merging the clips.

Mac Cursors

The cursors on Mac used to be 16x16 pixels. Now they are higher resolution and use 32x32 pixels.

Hover Highlighting

Buttons in the track control panel now highlight when hovered over. The thumb on sliders now highlights when the mouse is over it.

Escape Key

The Esc key now cancels all click-and-drag actions. It also chooses among overlapping mouse click targets, which is especially useful in the Multi-Tool.

Explanation when no Selection

The default behavior now for and for edits requiring a selection is that if you click on them without a selection, a dialog now shows explaining that you need to make a selection. Here an attempt to apply Fade effect was made without first selecting some audio.

Customisable spectrogram colours

The colors of the are now customisable using custom . This can give greater clarity to the spectrograms. In the example below the high intensity greens stand out better than the reds in the standard spectrogram.

Simplified stereo splitting and joining

Previously created special 'Left' and 'Right' tracks. Now splitting creates mono tracks, panned left or panned right. Below is a screenshot of a stereo track split into two tracks, one panned left, one panned right.

Documentation Overhaul

Major overhaul of the Audacity manual, including more work on clickable images.

• The in the manual have more extensive tooltips and more clickable areas.

• Over 300 new or modified images for this edition of the manual.

Links

- detailed release notes for this release of Audacity

This is a patch release. It adds a "Legacy" effects section containing the old Limiter, Compressor and Classic Filters.

It also fixes the following bugs:

• #6995 Fixed a hang after undoing.

• #6912 Fixed the zero line going missing.

• #6927 Fixed envelope appearance for clips offset from 0.

• Fixed Audacity turning white on some systems.

• Fixed the pitch indicator disappearing on Linux when hitting double digits.

• Fixed cutting not putting clips into the clipboard.

• Fixed pasting sometimes resetting the clip name.

• Fixed the track header UI breaking when resizing channels in a stereo track.

• , Fixed LV2 plugin detection on macOS and Windows.

• Fixed Labeled Audio operations.

• , Fixed Cloud projects sometimes not opening.

• Fixed a bug regarding stereo-to-mono splitting.

• Fixed a bug causing tracks with master effects sometimes only exporting silence.

• , Fixed multi-channel OGG and Wavpack import.

• Fixed a crash after recording long sessions.

• Fixed a crash when failing to load a cloud project.

• Fixed Audacity maxing out the CPU when minimized.

• Fixed the "editing clips can move other clips" preference desynchronizing multiple tracks.

• Fixed Stereo tracks sometimes splitting into mono when opening a project.

Other changes:

• The time track range now is a single dialog.

• Reverted the behavior of selection change when importing a clip to the previous behavior.

Audacity 3.3.1 was released on 28. Apr 2023.

This is a hotfix release.

Bug Fixes

• #4600 Fixed cut lines massively inflating project size.

• Fixed custom project sample rates being uneditable.

• Fixed crash reporting being disabled.

• Audacity now shows an error if the upload to audio.com exceeds file size limits.

• Fixed an error in calculating channels when uploading to audio.com.

Supported Platforms

Windows

• Audacity 3.3 is tested on Windows 10 & 11

  • Windows Vista, 7 and 8.1 should still work, but are no longer tested.

macOS / Mac OS X

• Audacity 3.3 is tested on macOS 12 & 13

  • OS X 10.9 and onwards should still work, but are no longer tested.

Linux

• In addition to the traditional update path via package managers, Audacity is distributed as an AppImage. The AppImage gets updated at the same time as the Windows and macOS versions, so if you collaborate with users on those platforms, you may want to use the AppImage over your distribution's package manager.

• Linux support is tested with AppImages on Ubuntu 20.04 & 22.04.

  • Other Linux distributions should work, but aren't tested by the Audacity team.

Compiling from source

Audacity is not yet compatible with Conan 2.

This page is an overview of the key new functionality that has been introduced in Audacity 2.3.1

• Details of all the major changes since 2.3.0 can be found in .

64-bit Mac build

The 2.3.1 release of Audacity for macOS is now a 64-bit build and will only run on modern 64-bit Macs, running OSX 10.7 or later.

This page is an overview of prominent new functionality that has been introduced in Audacity 2.4.2

Version 2.4.2 is primarily a maintenance release for bug-fixing, so there are not many new features.

• Details of all the major changes since 2.4.1 can be found in .

Audacity 3.3 was released on 24. Apr 2023

This release is mostly focused on under-the-hood changes

Changes

• Some of the built-in effects are now realtime capable (Bass & Treble, Distortion, Phaser, Reverb and Wahwah).

Audacity 3.4 adds a musical view, time stretching and a new exporter.

Major features

Music workflows

Audacity now features several music related features, such as switching between hh:mm:ss time and Beats & Measures, and time-stretching clips to align them to a song's tempo.

Details can be found in the following pages:

Time stretching

Hold Alt (macOS: Option) while hovering over the top third of a clip edge to stretch it.

More info:

New exporter

Audacity now features a new export window with easier access to options such as sample rate and custom mapping (for 5.1 or 7.1 audio). Additionally, the "Browse" button uses the native file browser now!

And in very related news, Opus files are now natively supported.

Other changes

• For MP3, Audacity now always uses Joint Stereo mode, which always delivers the best possible quality.

• The spectrogram colors are now perceptually uniform, and the colormap has gotten a name: Roseus. It also can be used for dataviz outside of Audacity, see for more info!

• Simplified pasting logic

Libraries

• implements a time stretching algorithm originating in . It currently is one of the highest-quality time stretching algorithms for music on the market.

• Audacity now uses Conan 2.

• Continued extracting code into libraries and modules.

Bug fixes

• --nogap metadata no longer is ignored

• fixed a crash with LV2 plugins (thanks jfroyall!)

• fixed some crashes related to macros

A can be found on Github.

Supported Platforms

Windows

• Audacity 3.4 is tested on Windows 10 & 11

  • Windows Vista, 7 and 8.1 may still work, but are no longer tested.

macOS / Mac OS X

• Audacity 3.4 is tested on macOS 12 & 13, and should support macOS 14

  • OS X 10.9 and onwards may still work, but are no longer tested.

Linux

• In addition to the traditional update path via package managers, Audacity is distributed as an AppImage. The AppImage gets updated at the same time as the Windows and macOS versions, so if you collaborate with users on those platforms, you may want to use the AppImage over your distribution's package manager.

• Linux support is tested with AppImages on Ubuntu 22.04.

  • Other Linux distributions should work, but aren't tested by the Audacity team.

Audacity 3.0.0 was released on 17th Mar 2021.

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Changes and improvements since previous version

Audacity 3.0.0 replaces all previous versions.

• Over 150 bugs fixed since 2.4.2

Full details of new features in the visual guide to

Supported Platforms

Windows

• Audacity 3.0.0 requires the CPU to support the instruction set which should be available on any Intel hardware produced after 2001 and any AMD hardware produced after 2003.

  • To check what SSE levels your CPU supports, you can install .

  • If your hardware only supports SSE, you may download Audacity 2.0.6 see the page on the Audacity Website.

macOS / Mac OS X

• Audacity 3.0.0 is for Intel Macs running OS X 10.7 and later and macOS.

  • There are legacy versions for older OS X at .

Linux

• Linux support is tested on Ubuntu Linux.

  • Audacity may compile on Gentoo, Debian, Mint.

  • Audacity does not currently compile on SuSE Linux.

Interactive Buglist Page

We probably track more bugs than you are interested in...

On the dynamic buglist page you can select to view:

• Complete list of bugs in 2.4.2 that we have fixed for 3.0.0

• Known bugs on the OS you use Mac, Windows or Linux.

• Known bugs to do with accessibility or localization.

• Workarounds for some bugs.

You can choose various combinations of these. However, there are probably too many minor bugs and too much detail on that for most users.

We do use this detail in our own QA work.

Highlighted Issues

• Below are listed what we believe are the most common and important issues with 3.0.0 for most users.

Accessibility

• Less of Audacity is properly accessible to visually impaired users than we would like. Currently the best supported platform for accessibility is Windows. We lost a lot of custom accessibility programming when we had to move to a more recent version of the wxWidgets library.

Internationalization

• Audacity is only partially translated in many languages. We also have some issues, for example, with Right-To-Left Languages.

Selected Bugzilla-Tracked Bugs

• Click on the bug numbers to see work done on these bugs.

Audacity 3.1.3 was released on 23. Dec 2021.

Changes and improvements since previous version

Audacity 3.1.3 is a patch release for Audacity 3.1.

It improves the following aspects:

• Improved performance. Loading in projects especially should now be up to 50x faster compared to 3.1.0.

• Added snap guides when resizing clips

• Added new shortcuts for looping: Shift+L for "Set Loop to Selection", Shift+Alt+L for "Clear Looping Region"

• Added a new selection region indicator in the timeline (identical in function as the one found pre-3.1, but with updated visuals)​

• Changed error messages to look less like a crash report

• Re-added the Quick Play indicator (green triangle and line) that got lost during 3.1.0 development

• Fixed Play-at-speed not updating the playback speed dynamically

• Fixed looping regions being created unintentionally when attempting to use Timeline Quick Play

• Fixed looping sometimes playing the wrong audio

• Fixed a bug that could cause data-loss when joining multiple clips

• Fixed scrub preview visibility

• Fixed a bug when trying to locate FFMPEG manually

• Fixed a glitch with Loop Playback

• Fixed a crash and a macOS-specific bug when renaming sync-locked clips using a dialog box. ,

• Fixed a crash when releasing a clip handle

• Fixed a freeze when closing Audacity with the logging window open

• Fixed a crash when loading a saved project using certain compilers

• Fixed a crash on paste after running macros

• Fixed a crash when cancelling a nyquist prompt

Supported Platforms

Windows

• Audacity 3.1.x requires the CPU to support the instruction set which should be available on any Intel hardware produced after 2001 and any AMD hardware produced after 2003.

  • To check what SSE levels your CPU supports, you can install .

  • If your hardware only supports SSE, you may download Audacity 2.0.6 see the page on the Audacity Website.

macOS / Mac OS X

• Audacity 3.1.x is for Intel Macs running OS X 10.7 and later and macOS.

  • There are legacy versions for older OS X at .

Linux

• Linux support is tested on Ubuntu Linux.

  • Other Linux distributions should work, but aren't tested by the Audacity team.

New shortcuts

Label Navigation

ALT + RIGHT to Move to Next Label and ALT + LEFT to Move to Previous Label. These shortcuts allow the name of the label and its order in the labels in that track to be read by screen readers. As well as moving the edit position, these shortcuts jump playback to the requested label.

Type to Create a Label

There is a new Tracks Menu item "Type to Create a Label (on/off)" (turning it off prevents shortcuts accidentally creating labels in the focused label track). There is also an option in Tracks Preferences to make this setting.

When enabled (default), if there is already a label track that has the yellow focus border, you do not need to use "Add Label at Selection" or its CTRL + B shortcut to create a new label. Just type your required label text to create a new label at the position of the editing cursor or selection region. If the label track does not have focus, use the UP or DOWN arrow keys on your keyboard to move focus into the label track.

If you turn this option off, typing never creates a label in the focused label track. This lets you use shortcuts (for example, transport shortcuts to play audio related to the editing cursor or selection) without accidentally creating an unwanted label. When you want to create a new label, use "Add Label at Selection" or CTRL + B or "Add Label at Playback Position" CTRL + M.

Track naming

There are new Recording Preferences settings to control the naming of recorded tracks:

• Use Custom Track Name: Use this to replace Audacity's default name of Audio Track with one of your own choosing.

• Add Track Number: Appends a track number to each new track name.

• Add System Date: Appends the date to each new track name, in year-month-day format.

Export

There is a new export option when exporting to MP3 "Force export to mono".

Enabling this checkbox always produces a mono (single channel) MP3 file, mixing down to mono if the Audacity content is stereo or would otherwise produce a stereo file. This is useful if stereo export is not required, because for variable or average bit rate or a Preset other than "Insane", the bit rate and hence the exported file size will be less than for stereo export, but with comparable quality to stereo. This is possible because fewer bits are needed for mono encoding than stereo.

If you are exporting only one mono Audacity track and that track is panned to center, Audacity will still automatically export as mono without the need to enable the new option.

SBSMS high quality option

Both Change Pitch and Change Tempo have a new option called "Use high quality stretching (slow)".

If this checkbox is enabled, the same high quality algorithm is used that is used in the Sliding_Time_Scale_-_Pitch_Shift|Sliding Time Scale / Pitch Shift effect. Change Tempo will process much more slowly if this checkbox is enabled, but will retain the complete content. For small to moderate tempo changes, the resulting quality will usually be higher, especially with percussive music (such as piano music).

Compressor

The "Ratio" setting in Compressor effect now lets you use higher precision. "Ratio" now allows a setting between 1.1 and 10, with 0.1 precision (formerly, the minimum was 1.5, and the smallest increment was 0.5).

Real Time Preview

The Bass and Treble effect now supports Real-time preview - effect settings can be changed while playing and listening to the result in real-time. As with other real-time preview effects, the Enable checkbox acts like a live "Bypass" control, so that unchecking the checkbox Enable lets you hear the audio "dry" without the effect applied.

Bass and Treble also has a new checkbox item "Link Volume control to Tone controls". Enabling this automatically adjusts the Volume control for changes to Bass and Treble so as to lessen the change in the resulting output level.

Scrolling on Mac

Audacity now supports Mac Trackpad gestures for two-finger horizontal scroll and pinch/expand to zoom the waveform in or out at the pointer position. Previously a modifier key had to be used to perform these actions on a Trackpad.

Horizontal scrolling and pinch/expand should also work on most touchpads on Windows machines, but you may need to apply this or to install special drivers for your touchpad.

Links

Back to: - detailed release notes for this release of Audacity

This is a hotfix release. It fixes the following issues:

• #5568 Fix a crash when opening projects with zero-length clips.

• #5032 When exporting a file, the sample rate of the tracks is now considered, and last-used sample rate is remembered.

• Copy-pasting behavior now pastes into clips again by default. This can be changed via Preferences -> Track Behavior -> Always paste audio as new clips.

• #Mix and render now also resets the gain for the resulting track.

• #Fix clips shifting to the right when effects are applied to them.

• #Fix clicks occurring when overdubbing a project with muted tracks.

• #Fix files being exported without a file extension in rare cases.

• #Show all sample rates possible for MP2 exports.

• #Fix pasting into labels.

• #Fix a crash when clearing loops.

• #Fix copying when "select all audio if selection required" is enabled.

• ##Fix GTK detection and compilation for wxWidgets 3.2.4.

• Fix Nyquist-related crashes.

• #Fix EQs in macros.

• #Fix a crash when closing Audacity.

• #Fix builds on arm64/armhf.

• #Use dladdr when possible to setup modules paths

Supported Platforms

Windows

• Audacity 3.4 is tested on Windows 10 & 11

  • Windows Vista, 7 and 8.1 may still work, but are no longer tested.

macOS / Mac OS X

• Audacity 3.4 is tested on macOS 12 - 14

  • Mac OS X 10.9 and onwards may still work, but are no longer tested.

Linux

• In addition to the traditional update path via package managers, Audacity is distributed as an AppImage. The AppImage gets updated at the same time as the Windows and macOS versions, so if you collaborate with users on those platforms, you may want to use the AppImage over your distribution's package manager.

• Linux support is tested with AppImages on Ubuntu 22.04.

  • Other Linux distributions should work, but aren't tested by the Audacity team.

Major changes

Master effects

Audacity now features master effects. Master effects are effects which apply to the entire project at once. More information can be found at Using master effects & realtime effects.

New compressor and limiter

A new compressor and limiter has been added, replacing the previous versions. A gain reduction history has been added to these effects when they're used as a .

Factory Presets suitable for a wide range of use cases for these effects have been provided by Vladislav Isaev and Marek Iwaszkiewicz, available via the Presets & Settings button.

New themes

Audacity now features new and improved dark and light themes. You can switch between themes via Preferences -> Interface. The theme previously used still is around as the Classic theme, and themes even older than that can be optionally from .

Updated instructions on creating custom themes can be found .

Increased performance

Audacity is now quite a bit snappier than before, especially when working on larger projects and on larger screens.

Other changes

• Added FFmpeg 7 support.

• You now can paste audio files into Audacity using Ctrl+V.

• Alternative waveform colors are now themeable by custom themes.

• Removed the track name overlay preference and the "blend themes" preference.

Bugfixes

• When recording to a new track, the track is now scrolled back into view again.

• The macro manager no longer shows parameterless actions as editable. (Thanks, Davi Nonnenmacher!)

• Pressing Esc in some preference dialogs no longer saves them.

• Fixed stray orange lines in the high contrast theme.

Patches

Supported Platforms

Windows

• Audacity 3.6 is tested on Windows 10 & 11

  • Windows Vista, 7 and 8.1 may still work, but are no longer tested. We are not actively supporting these versions anymore, but still accept patches which improve compatibility with these versions.

macOS / Mac OS X

• Audacity 3.6 is tested on macOS 14

  • Older macOS versions down to OS X 10.9 may still work, but is no longer tested. We are not actively supporting OSX versions anymore, but still accept patches which improve compatibility with these versions.

  • The Universal Binary may not work on various OSX versions. Use the Intel (x86_64) installer instead.

Linux

• Linux support is tested with AppImages on Ubuntu 22.04.

  • Other Linux distributions should work, but aren't tested by the Audacity team.

  • On some distributions, libfuse2 needs to be installed for AppImages to work. See for more information.

Audacity 2.3.2 was released on 15th May 2019.

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Audacity 2.4.2 was released on 26th Jun 2020.

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Audacity 3.0.3 was released on the 26th of July, 2021

Changes and improvements since previous version

Key improvements:

• Windows version is now 64-bit

Audacity 2.3.3 was released on ----- May 2019.

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Changes and improvements since previous version

Audacity 2.3.3 replaces all previous versions.

• Over 150 bugs fixed since 2.3.2.

Full details of new features in the visual guide to

Supported Platforms

Windows

• Audacity 2.3.3 requires the CPU to support the instruction set which should be available on any Intel hardware produced after 2001 and any AMD hardware produced after 2003.

  • To check what SSE levels your CPU supports, you can install .

  • If your hardware only supports SSE, you may download Audacity 2.0.6 see the page on the Audacity Website.

macOS / Mac OS X

• Audacity 2.3.3 is for Intel Macs running OS X 10.7 and later and macOS, but not Catalina.

  • There are legacy versions for older OS X at .

Linux

• Linux support is tested on Ubuntu Linux.

  • Audacity may compile on Gentoo, Debian, Mint.

  • Audacity does not currently compile on SuSE Linux.

Interactive Buglist Page

We probably track more bugs than you are interested in...

On the dynamic buglist page you can select to view:

• Complete list of bugs in 2.3.2 that we have fixed for 2.3.3

• Known bugs on the OS you use Mac, Windows or Linux.

• Known bugs to do with accessibility or localization.

• Workarounds for some bugs.

You can choose various combinations of these. However, there are probably too many minor bugs and too much detail on that for most users.

We do use this detail in our own QA work.

Highlighted Issues

• Below are listed what we believe are the most common and important issues with 2.3.3 for most users.

macOS Catalina

• We don't properly support mac Catalina yet. A workaround must be used to get recording to work at all.

Accessibility

• Far less of Audacity is properly accessible to visually impaired users than we would like. Currently the best supported platform for accessibility is Windows. We lost a lot of custom accessibility programming when we had to move to a more recent version of the wxWidgets library.

Internationalization

• Audacity is only partially translated in many languages. We also have some issues, for example, with Right-To-Left Languages.

Selected Bugzilla-Tracked Bugs

• Click on the bug numbers to see work done on these bugs.

This page is an overview of the key new functionality that has been introduced in Audacity 2.1.3

• Details of all the major changes since 2.1.2 can be found in Audacity 2.1.3.

Transport improvements

We have implemented the long-standing and popular feature request of a fixed and centered play/record head (called the "pinned head"). When the pinned head is selected the waveform scrolls continuously past the fixed head while you are playing or recording.

The pinned head can be selected by using the new button at the left of the Timeline. By default this is the familiar green downwards-pointing triangle (like the playhead) and the default behavior is the old familiar scrolling play/record head. The pinned head can also be selected in Tracks Preferences.

When pinned playback or recording is chosen, the playhead displays as a green drawing-pin (as shown in the image below) and the recording head displays as a red drawing-pin.

Clicking the drawing-pin reverts to default unpinned playback and recording, and the button will change back to the green triangle.

For this release we have changed the way in which scrubbing works.

We have introduced a new which is on by default and sits just under the . You can turn it on or off from the right-click dropdown menu of the Timeline.

If you hover the mouse over the Scrub Ruler you will see the Scrub widget's green left- and right-pointing arrows appear (along with a tooltip if you continue to hover). Clicking anywhere in the Scrub Ruler, releasing the mouse button then moving the mouse left or right will start Scrubbing from there. Note that in this image the green scrub widget is to the right of the green triangle playhead, indicating that forwards scrubbing towards the pointer is taking place.

To stop scrub play and set the cursor at the current playback position, just click the Stop button (or its shortcut SPACE).

The shortcut for has changed from SHIFT + A to the simpler and easier to use X.

We have added some new features to improve Timer Record.

You can now specify optional actions on completion such as Save and/or Export, quit Audacity and, on Windows, shut down.

Audacity will now warn you in advance if it calculates that you have insufficient disk space for the length of your scheduled recording.

Effects and Generators

A big improvement you will notice is that all effects plus edits and other functionality can now be actioned from paused state - Audacity will stop the audio and do the action or open the dialog requested. This should remove a common cause of confusion for our users.

We have introduced a new effect (which supersedes the "Leveller" and "Hard Limiter" effects found in earlier Audacity versions). Technically this effect is a . The result of waveshaping is equivalent to applying non-linear amplification to the audio waveform. Preset shaping functions are provided, each of which produces a different type of distortion. Presets are provided which suggest typical settings for a wide range of uses.

The former Click Track generator has been updated and renamed to with improved sounds and a new "Swing amount" control for unequal beat duration.

We have added a new Generator for which reads numeric values from a file and creates a sample for each numeric value read.

There are two new keyboard shortcuts to navigate between labels: ALT + RIGHT to Move to Next Label and ALT + LEFT to Move to Previous Label. Use these shortcuts to move the editing position to the label, without opening the label for editing. If audio is already playing, playback jumps to the label requested, which is useful if you have using labels.

These new shortcuts also let screen readers for the blind read the label's name and its order in the labels in that track, a feature lacking in Audacity until now. There are no corresponding menu entries or buttons for these shortcuts.

New menu items

Edit Menu

There are two new commands to aid making selections:

• Use Edit > Store Cursor Position to store the position of the editing cursor (or when there is active audio, to store the position of the playback or recording cursor).

• Subsequently, use Edit > Select > Cursor to Stored Cursor Position to select from the editing cursor (or during active audio, from the position of the playback or recording cursor) to the stored cursor position.

Tracks Menu

Another new menu item is Tracks >Type to Create a Label (on/off). Previous Audacity already let you type to create a label in the focused label track, but this feature made it easy to accidentally create a label when you really wanted to use shortcuts to play or act on the audio. Uncheck this new menu item (or make the same change in Tracks Preferences) to avoid that risk.

We have added to this Manual. It tells you about a few of the core Audacity features and about some of the more specialized features you might not know where to find.

This page gives an overview of further new functionality that has been introduced in Audacity 2.1.3

Links

- detailed release notes for this release of Audacity

Audacity 2.3.1 will be released on 8th March 2019.

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Audacity 2.3.1 replaces all previous versions.

• Audacity now supports 64-bit Mac.

• Over 20 bugs fixed since 2.3.0, including:

  • A crashing bug on Linux that made Audacity 2.3.0. unsuitable for Linux.

Full details of new features in the visual guide to

Supported Platforms

Windows

• Audacity 2.3.1 requires the CPU to support the instruction set which should be available on any Intel hardware produced after 2001 and any AMD hardware produced after 2003.

  • To check what SSE levels your CPU supports, you can install .

  • If your hardware only supports SSE, you may download Audacity 2.0.6 see the page on the Audacity Website.

macOS / Mac OS X

• Audacity 2.3.1 is for Intel Macs running OS X 10.7 and later and macOS.

  • There are legacy versions for older OS X at .

Linux

• Linux support is tested on Ubuntu Linux.

  • Audacity may compile on Gentoo, Debian, Mint.

  • Audacity does not currently compile on SuSE Linux.

Interactive Buglist Page

We probably track more bugs than you are interested in...

On the dynamic buglist page you can select to view:

• Complete list of bugs in 2.3.0 that we have fixed for 2.3.1

• Known bugs on the OS you use Mac, Windows or Linux.

• Known bugs to do with accessibility or localization.

• Workarounds for some bugs.

You can choose various combinations of these. However, there are probably too many minor bugs and too much detail on that for most users.

We do use this detail in our own QA work.

Highlighted Issues

• Below are listed what we believe are the most common and important issues with 2.3.1 for most users.

Accessibility

• Far less of Audacity is properly accessible to visually impaired users than we would like. Currently the best supported platform for accessibility is Windows. We lost a lot of custom accessibility programming when we had to move to a more recent version of the wxWidgets library.

Internationalization

• Audacity is only partially translated in many languages. We also have some issues, for example, with Right-To-Left Languages.

Selected Bugzilla-Tracked Bugs

• Click on the bug numbers to see work done on these bugs.

Audacity 2.2.1 was released on 6 December 2017.

Changes since previous version

See the New features in Audacity 2.2.1 page for more information about improvements and other changes.

Improvements

Waveform colorways

You can optionally change the colorway of the waveforms displayed in your project. The setting is per track and not per project so you can have multiple colorways in the same project as in the image below.

Four colorways are available with the color selection made from the dropdown menu in the track's Track Control Panel.

"Save Other" reverts to "Export" in the File menu

When we made the menu changes for 2.2.0 we introduced an entry into the File menu called "Save Other" which led to a sub-menu for exporting various audio formats.

Many users were confused by this change and found it hard to find where they could export audio from. So for 2.2.1 we have changed that menu entry to be File > Export.

Bug Fixes

We fixed a bug on Mac that caused Audacity to crash with certain Chain files. Plus we fixed another Mac bug whereby opening a second project from Mac's Finder produced a second inaccessible instance of Audacity.

Supported Platforms

Windows

• Audacity 2.2.1 requires the CPU to support the instruction set which should be available on any Intel hardware produced after 2001 and any AMD hardware produced after 2003. To check what SSE levels your CPU supports, you can install . If your hardware only supports SSE, you may download Audacity 2.0.6 see the page on the Audacity Website.

• 2.2.0 does not officially support Windows XP.

macOS / Mac OS X

• Audacity 2.2.1 is for Intel Macs running OS X 10.6 and later and macOS. There are legacy versions for older OS X at .

Linux

• Linux support is tested on Ubuntu Linux.

  • Audacity may compile on Gentoo, Debian, Mint.

  • Audacity does not currently compile on SuSE Linux.

Issues

See our for much more detail of issues with Audacity 2.2.1.

Timer Record

• Timer Record may not reliably stop the recording on some machines. The Elapsed and Remaining Time counters may stop counting. In this case it will be necessary to force quit Audacity.

  • On a few affected machines, the problem can be avoided if you leave focus on Audacity or ensure it has focus when recording is due to end.

(Linux) PULSE Audio

• PulseAudio is not reliable when used with Audacity on Linux. Playback or recording may freeze, recording dropouts or fast playback may occur when using PulseAudio.

  • Freezes may be caused by repeatedly starting and stopping playback or recording in quick succession (or by holding down the Play or Record button).

  • Workarounds: Try launching Audacity from the terminal with the pulse latency set to 30 ms in an environment variable:

env PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=30 audacity

• If you get underruns noted in the terminal, try a higher number in the PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC command. If the problem is unchanged, try a lower number.

• Alternatively, bypass pulseaudio by setting the playback and recording device to an ALSA (hw) choice in Device Toolbar. More help with this can be found here.

(Linux) MIDI

• The timing of notes during MIDI playback may sound erratic on some machines. Optimizing the system for low latency MIDI playback can help to reduce the inaccuracies.

Accessibility

• Far less of Audacity is properly accessible to visually impaired users than we would like. Currently the best supported platform for accessibility is Windows. We lost a lot of custom accessibility programming when we had to move to a more recent version of the wxWidgets library. A lot more detail about accessibility limitations can be found

Bugzilla

We track these and many other bugs in our 'bugzilla' database.

• Click on the bug numbers to see work done on these bugs.

Audacity 3.1 was released on 27. October 2021

Changes and improvements since previous version

Audacity 3.1 replaces all previous versions.

Clip-handles

The old Time Shift Tool has been replaced by Clip handles. Clip handles are the rounded corners above the clip which feature the clip title. You can move clips around by simply clicking and dragging the clip handle, and you can rename clips by double-clicking the clip handle.

Label tracks don't feature clip handles, but they can be moved around just the same: Simply click on the label (the bar for region labels, the circle for point labels) and drag them to their new place.

Smart clips

Audacity now can trim clips non-destructively by dragging the upper edge of a clip. This means that you can make clips shorter, then do some edits and then decide it should be longer anyway - the data will still be there. Copy-pasting the trimmed clip also will have that info available!

Playback Looping

Audacity now features a new playback looping button. Enabling it will mark the current selection as a looping region, in which the playback will loop. You then can edit and select independently of the looping region. This feature replaces the previous Shift+Play behavior.

When looping is enabled, you can press Shift+Play to only play the looping region once.

Context Menus

Since it's conception in 2000, Audacity had cross-platform support of both Windows, macOS and Linux as it's goal. But macOS at the time didn't have a right-click, so to not hide features from mac users, Audacity didn't have any right-click context menus. The situation has changed since then, and there no longer is anything hindering right-click context menus, so they now have been added to a few places, such as in the waveform of clips and the empty (dark grey) space outside of tracks, providing relevant options right there.

New defaults

• In the preferences, is now disabled by default. This makes multi-track editing easier (even if you're not using Sync Lock). You may now see an error saying that there isn't enough space when pasting clips in-between other clips though, so if that happens to you too frequently, you may want to turn it back on.

• The spectrogram defaults have been changed: scale type to Mel (was Linear), top of scale to 20000 Hz (was 8000 Hz), window size to 2048 (was 1024), and zero padding to 2 (was 1).

Bug fixes

Since Audacity 3.0.3, there have been two hot-fix releases (3.0.4 and 3.0.5), both fixing a bug each which could lead to data corruption. Thanks to the automatic updates introduced in 3.0.3, we actually could make these hotfixes and be reasonably certain that they'd actually reach users and potentially avert data loss.

In addition, we fixed a number of bugs, from the very small (the play button had 1-2px cut off at the bottom) to some larger ones (especially crashes/bouncing balls of death). Some more details can be found below.

Smaller changes

• Context menus have been added in more places.

• In the preferences, Tracks > Track behaviors > Editing a clip can move other clips is now disabled by default

• The spectrogram defaults have been changed: scale type to Mel (was Linear), top of scale to 20000 Hz (was 8000 Hz), window size to 2048 (was 1024), and zero padding to 2 (was 1).

Libraries

• FFMPEG now supports avformat 55, 57 and 58.

• PortAudio has been updated to version 19.7 and devendored (so it can be built against 19.6).

• Several libraries (expat, libsndfile, ...) have been devendored. The lists which versions we build against.

Fixed Bugs

There are some 50 issues closed labeled as bug. Among them:

• AppImages support localization.

• Progress bars for Nyquist generators have been made more accurate.

• Rhythm tracks can no longer drift off-time by 2ms over 9 minutes; they're now sample-accurate.

Supported Platforms

Windows

• Audacity 3.1 requires the CPU to support the instruction set which should be available on any Intel hardware produced after 2001 and any AMD hardware produced after 2003.

  • To check what SSE levels your CPU supports, you can install .

  • If your hardware only supports SSE, you may download Audacity 2.0.6 see the page on the Audacity Website.

macOS / Mac OS X

• Audacity 3.1 is for Intel Macs running OS X 10.7 and later and macOS.

  • There are legacy versions for older OS X at .

Linux

• In addition to the traditional update path via package managers, Audacity 3.0.3 and onwards are distributed as an AppImage. The AppImage gets updated at the same time as the Windows and macOS versions, so if you collaborate with users on those platforms, you may want to use the AppImage over your distribution's package manager.

• Linux support is tested on Ubuntu Linux.

  • Other Linux distributions should work, but aren't tested by the Audacity team.

Audacity 3.2 was released on 22. Sep 2022

Changes and improvements since previous version

Prominent changes

• Added a new Effects button to the tracks menu, allowing you to place realtime effects.

Further information can be found on

• Merged the mixer bar with the meter bars.

• Added a new Audio Setup button, replacing the Device Toolbar by default. The device toolbar can be re-added via the View > Toolbars menu.

• The Effects menu has gotten a new sorting. Other sorting and grouping options can be found in the Effects preferences.

• Updated the icons

More info can be found on

Plugin changes

• VST3 effects are now supported.

• VST3, LV2, Audio Units and LADSPA are now realtime capable

• Plugins now automatically get scanned, tested and enabled when Audacity starts.

System changes

• Apple Silicon (arm64) is now supported on macOS.

Note: When using an arm64 Audacity, you must use arm64 FFMPEG and plugins. Plugins for x86-64 (Intel macs) will not load.For the time being, Audacity will continue to offer x86-64 versions by default to avoid these incompatibilities, but you can download an arm64 version from .

• FFMPEG 5.0 (avformat 59) is now supported, in addition to avformat 55, 57 and 58

• Added support for

• On Linux, Audacity can now be compiled without JACK present.

• Audacity now uses XDG directories on Linux. Note: If you are upgrading from a previous version, Audacity will keep using the ~/.audacity-data and ~/.audacity folders until you delete them.

License update

• Audacity binaries are now licensed under the GNU General Public License, Version 3. Most code files remain GPLv2-or-later, but VST3 support required this license update. More information can be found in the .

Removals

• Removed the Zoom Tool

• The Audacity Manual HTML pages no longer are included in the installation.

If you require offline access of the manual, you can download it .You also can download PDFs of straight from its sidebar (or the three-dot button in the top-right corner on smaller/mobile devices).

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Audacity sometimes not being able to import MP3 files (or reporting Huffman Data Overruns) by switching import library

• Fixed rare data loss bug when placing labels during recording

• Fixed clip titles being able to disappear off-screen when editing them

A full list of changes can be found .

Supported Platforms

Windows

• Audacity 3.2 supports Windows 10 & 11

  • Windows Vista, 7 and 8.1 should still work, but are no longer tested.

  • Downloads for older versions are available on the page on the Audacity Website.

macOS / Mac OS X

• Audacity 3.2 supports OS X 10.9 and later, and macOS.

  • There are legacy versions for older OS X at .

Linux

• In addition to the traditional update path via package managers, Audacity 3.0.3 and onwards are distributed as an AppImage. The AppImage gets updated at the same time as the Windows and macOS versions, so if you collaborate with users on those platforms, you may want to use the AppImage over your distribution's package manager.

• Linux support is tested on Ubuntu 20.04.

  • Other Linux distributions should work, but aren't tested by the Audacity team.

Audacity 2.4.1 was released on 20th May 2020.

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Audacity 3.0.2 was released on 19th Apr 2021.

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Major features

Cloud project saving

We've introduced a new cloud-saving feature that allows you to save your Audacity projects to . This allows you to work from any device, share & collaborate with others and restore previous versions if something went wrong.