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Feb 22, 2018 Audacity is a free, easy-to-use and multilingual audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. Advanced usage: If you already have Audacity-compatible FFmpeg 2.2.x or 2.3.x shared libraries in the system PATH, Audacity will use those as long as you do not install FFmpeg from the links above and as long as you do not specify the FFmpeg you want Audacity to use in Libraries Preferences.
Audacity 1.2.2 Change Log
- Feb 24, 2018 Audacity Portable 2.2.2 has been released. Audacity Portable the popular Audacity audio editor packaged as a portable app, so you can take your audio files along with everything you need to edit and record on the go It's packaged in PortableApps.com Format so it can easily integrate with the PortableApps.com Platform.
- There are many tools in this category, but few so comprehensive and efficient as Audacity. It is a free, open source software with GNU licensing to record and edit audio, working directly with the graphics of the sound waves. It can also convert files. It supports the majority of audio formats, such as wav, mp3, Ogg, wma, ac3, flac and aiff.
- Audacity is free, open source, cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds.
- VU Meters added for both playback and recording. Click on the recording meter to monitor the input without recording.
- Export Multiple - new feature that lets you export multiple files at once, either by track, or split based on labels.
- Attempt to automatically correct latency in full-duplex recordings. (This does not work perfectly, and is not yet supported on all systems. It will improve in future versions.)
- Fixed a serious bug that could cause data loss when you save and then reload and re-edit an Audacity project containing repeated or duplicate data.
- MP3 tags dialog will only pop up the first time you export as MP3; after that it will not pop up again as long as you have filled in at least one tag.
- You can now add a label at the current playback position – in the Project menu, with a shortcut of Ctrl+M.
- Clicking on a label now selects all of the tracks, making it easier to use the label track to recall selections.
- Windows: Fixed a crash in the Time Track 'Set Rate' command.
- Fixed a bug that caused problems with recordings over 45 minutes on some Windows systems.
- Mac OS X: Improved support for the Griffin iMic by fixing a bug that was causing it to always record in mono instead of stereo.
- Added support for Software Playthrough (listen to what you're recording while recording it, or while monitoring using a VU
- meter) - this makes it possible, for example, to record using one
- audio device while listening to it play through a separate device.
- Unix/Linux: Fixed freeze caused by captured mouse when audio device hangs. (Audacity may not respond, but it will no longer freeze all of X.)
- Fixed a cosmetic bug that caused improper waveform display if you tried to open an Audacity project saved on a different platform (e.g., copying a project from a Mac to a PC).
- Fixed bug that could cause instability when pasting, splitting, or duplicating a label track.
- You can now change the font of a label track by choosing 'Font...' from the label track's pop-up menu.
- Basic printing support has been added. Currently it scales the entire project to fit exactly on one page. Try printing in landscape orientation for best results.
- Mac OS X and Windows: Audacity ships with a newer version (1.0.1) of the Ogg Vorbis encoder. Vorbis compression will now have higher quality and smaller file sizes.
- Fix a bug that occasionally caused crashes when applying effects to split tracks.
- Zoom In / Zoom Out now properly disable when they're not available.
- Fixed disk memory leak in Preview
- Other minor bug fixes and performance improvements.
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Audacity is a free, open source digital audio editor and recording application. Edit your sounds using cut, copy, and paste features (with unlimited undo functionality), mix tracks, or apply effects to your recordings. The program also has a built-in amplitude-envelope editor, a customizable spectrogram mode, and a frequency-analysis window for audio-analysis applications. Built-in effects include bass boost, wah wah, and noise removal, and the program also supports VST plug-in effects.
You can use Audacity to:
- Record live audio.
- Record computer playback on any Windows Vista or later machine.
- Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs.
- Edit WAV, AIFF, FLAC, MP2, MP3 or Ogg Vorbis sound files.
- AC3, M4A/M4R (AAC), WMA and other formats supported using optional libraries.
- Cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together.
- Numerous effects including change the speed or pitch of a recording.
- Write your own plug-in effects with Nyquist.
- And more! See the complete list of features.
Audacity 2.2.2 changelog:
Easier zooming in and out with mousewheel, new Zoom Toggle command, and context menu for vertical rulers (thanks to James Crook)
Easy access to change keyboard bindings of menu commands by holding Shift key
Detection of dropout errors while recording with overburdened CPU
Improved contrasts in Light and Dark themes
Half-wave display option
Several bugs/annoyances in 2.2.1 are now fixed
- Full details on the changes since 2.2.1 can be found in the 2.2.2 Release Notes.
Audacity 2.2.2
Bug fixes:
- Multiple use of 'Save As' to the existing open project can result in data corruption/loss
- Crash undoing during record, using Discard button of History window
- Exporting audio in compressed formats to device with insufficient space produces inconsistent/truncated results
- In Export Multiple, Cancel does not remove the file that is in progress when Cancel is chosen
- Crash using SBSMS pitch change at low sample rate
- Installer has old logo for 2.2.1 and 2.2.0
- (Mac) Equalization: 'Telephone' curve displays a flat line, no sound on Preview
- Toolbars: open undocked if previously not shown, unless Reset Toolbars first
- Analysis effects that create labels should give focus to label track
- Control value may be out of range when using FloatingPointValidator
- Analysis effects produce false indication that a label is open for editing
- Import Uncompressed File Dialog Incorrect Reference to Menu Item
- Wave Color not grayed out in TCP dropdown menu when in Spectrogram view
- Hover indication on note track channel toggle appears on all tracks (when they rerender)
- Unicode page encodings fixed
- Un-muting with a single track unnecessarily activates the Solo button
- Applying chain to file should zoom-to-fit
Audacity 2.2.0
Download: Audacity 2.2.2 | 19.3 MB (Open Source)
Download: Audacity 2.2.2 Standalone | 11.4 MB
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Audacity 2.2.3
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