Audacity v2.4.0

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Website / Download: Windows, macOS, Linux / Release Notes / New Features

 

Improvements

• Audacity now runs on Mac Catalina.
  
• A new Time Toolbar showing current record/playback time has been split from the Selection Toolbar. It can be resized large.
  
• Presets for more effects can be imported and exported.
  
• A new Multi-View mode for tracks. In this mode both
  
• spectrogram and waveform views are shown at the same time.
  
• Opus available as a new audio export format on Windows and Linux.
  
• Easier to convert labels between point labels and range labels.
  
• New Loudness Normalization effect.
  
• New RMS measurement analyzer.
  
• New Noise Gate effect.
  
• New Spectral Delete effect.
  

Over 100 bugs have been fixed for this release, including over 50 priority 1 and priority 2 bugs.

 

Here is a small selection of some of the most important.

 

Key P1 bugs fixed

• P1 2227 - Mac: Audacity does not run properly on macOS 10.15 Catalina
  
• P1 2237 - Equalization effects have no Import or Export for curves
  
• P1 2261 - Graphic EQ sliders have no frequency labels
  
• P1 2265 - Track heights are reset to default on project re-opening
  
• P1 2303 - Playback does not start at the saved cursor position on reopening a saved project.
  
• P1 2314 - Zoom in fail when playing
  

Key P2 bugs fixed

• P2 2062 - Export as WAV does not remember the previously used setting
  
• P2 2214 - Rendering a single track unnecessarily moves the track to project bottom
  
• P2 2218 - Rendering a single track unnecessarily strips it of its properties
  
• P2 2345 - "Ignore blank space" Preference fails on Export Multiple based on "Tracks"
  
• P2 2358 - Loop Quick-Play does not scroll when playing
  
• P2 2382 - Timer record: if a labels are present recording starts at last label position - not cursor position
  

Edited May 18, 2020 by Arthur

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Link: Audacity 2.4.1 Released

 

We’re pleased to announce release of Audacity 2.4.1 which replaces all previous versions for Windows, macOS and Linux.

 

The 2.4.0 Multi-project bug:

 

Audacity 2.4.1 fixes a serious bug in the briefly available Audacity 2.4.0.

 

With 2.4.0 we blundered. In 2.4.0 you’d get loss of and corruption of audio, when you had two projects open at the same time.

 

Thanks to Jack L from FreeBSD for alerting us to the problem so promptly, and giving us steps to reproduce it.

 

Catalina?

 

With 2.4.1 we have now caught up with Apple’s ‘notarization system’. Audacity on Mac is notarized and runs on Catalina.

 

Time Toolbar:

 

We have split the recording/playing time off from the selection toolbar and it can now be dragged to make it larger. This is particularly for people recording themselves playing a musical instrument, where they will typically be further from the screen when playing, and benefit from a larger numerical display.

 

Large ‘Time Toolbar’ (on the right)

The new toolbar can be ‘undocked’ from the foot of the screen, and made larger still, for more distant viewing.

 

Multi-views:

 

We have added a new optional mode for viewing audio. In this new mode you can see both the waveform and a spectrogram at the same time. Previously you would switch back and forth between them if you wanted both.

 

 

Multi-view mode with spectrogram above and waveform below

You can get into this multi-view mode by clicking on the down-pointing triangle beside the track name in the panel on the left of the wave. This will drop-down a menu with options, including multi-view mode.

 

These screenshots of Audacity showing the time toolbar and multi-view mode were made on the windows version of Audacity, using the dark theme. Dark theme can be selected from the preferences...

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Link: Audacity 2.4.2 Released

 

We’re pleased to announce release of Audacity 2.4.2 which replaces all previous versions for Windows, macOS and Linux.

 

 

Audacity 2.4.2

 

wxWidgets Library

 

The main change since 2.4.1 is that we have upgraded the wxWidgets library that Audacity uses from 3.1.1 (with patches by us) to 3.1.3 (with patches by us). We wanted to do this as a release in its own right, before we start on a longer and more complex release.

 

If you’re using Audacity 2.4.2 on Linux, do use the right wxWidgets library. We’ve in the past had a lot of reports of problems on Linux that turned out in the end to be because some distributions were using system wxWidgets (3.0.0) with Audacity.

 

Bugs fixed

 

We’ve fixed 41 bugs since 2.4.1. The exact number of bugs fixed depends on how you count, but anyway, it’s a worthwhile number of fixes.

 

Configuration Reset

 

There is one new small feature. In the Tools menu there is now a ‘Reset Configuration’ menu item. When you click on it, it resets most of the configuration back to defaults.