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Audacity 3.1.3

Audacity 3.1.3 was released on 23. Dec 2021.

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

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.

Audacity 3.1.3 was released on 23. Dec 2021.

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

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.