Audacity 3.7

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

• #6233 #7397 #6900 Improved Linux compatibility.

• Improved contrast in the light theme.

• MP3 exports: Renamed "Insane" to "Excessive".

• Improved non-standard character handling for cloud saving.

• Renamed "Split cut/delete" to "Cut/delete and leave gap".

• Pasting clips no longer moves clips on other tracks if "editing clips can move other clips" is enabled.

• Fixed database compacting not working properly sometimes.

• Improved startup speed on systems with many audio devices.

• Multi view: Fixed the hitbox of the x being misaligned with the visuals. (Thanks, Kurtsley)

• macOS: Fixed VST presets path.

• Adding, removing, replacing and reordering of effects now is undoable.

• Closing a project upon turning a realtime effect stack on and off doesn't crash Audacity anymore.

• Canceling a stereo track mid-operation no longer crashes Audacity.

• Importing Opus files using libopus no longer shifts the audio data.

• Changed the login flow for cloud uploads.

Supported Platforms

Windows

• Audacity 3.7 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 3.7 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 24.04.

  • 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.