New in Audacity 3.0.2 RC 1: Accessibility: Less of Audacity is properly accessible to visually impaired users than we would like. Currently the best supported platform for accessibility is Windows. Nov 02, 2017 Improved recovery from full file system errors; in case of recording, Audacity 2.2.0 will preserve as much of the recorded data as possible Complete support for macOS 10.12 (Sierra) correcting the problems that were in 2.1.3 Fuller details on the changes since 2.1.3 can be found in the 2.2.0 Release Notes. Audacity Tour Guide - quick tour of selected features of Audacity; Installing and updating Audacity on Windows, Mac or Linux. Updating from Audacity 2.x to Audacity 3.x (changed project structure) Installing plug-ins for Audacity on Windows, Mac or Linux; Changing language; Connecting audio equipment - Microphones, instruments, USB devices.
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Audacity 1.2.2 Change Log
- 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.
Audacity is a free audio editor. You can record sounds, play sounds, import and export WAV, AIFF, and MP3 files, and more. Use it to edit your sounds using Cut, Copy and Paste (with unlimited Undo), mix tracks together, or apply effects to your recordings.
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Audacity 2.2.2
Audacity 2.0.2 Change Log
Bug fixes
Interface
- 'Retain labels' Interface Preference did not retain labels for a region that snapped exactly to both label edges.
- Projects did not save the track selected state.
- (OS X, Linux) Timer Record: Interlinking of the Start, End and Duration controls was broken.
- (Windows) JAWS screen-reader did not read the 'Draw curves' and 'Graphic EQ' radio buttons in Equalization correctly.
Envelopes and Clips
- Exporting (or any render operation) on a track containing split lines could create clicks at the split lines.
Effects and Analysis
- Normalize could crash if the track name contained '%'.
Changes and Improvements
- Duration controls when generating at a point now default to hh:mm:ss + milliseconds format. Selection Toolbar also defaults to that format on first installation or resetting preferences.
- Toolbars visual improvements:
- 'Snap To' in Selection Toolbar now has an explanatory tooltip
- Device Toolbar tooltips now display the selected device
- Increased default width of Device Toolbar and Meter Toolbar.
- Improvements and some bug fixes to Nyquist effects, including:
- Delay (new option to prevent duration change)
- Sample Data Export (new 'L-R on Same Line' layout option)
- Risset Drum (new 'Amplitude' slider).
- Importing a labels file writes the file name to the name of the Label Track, and exporting a labels file offers the name of the last Label Track in the project.
- Removed the 'Audio cache' option from Directories Preferences due to frequent crash reports. All data operations will now be written to disk and not to RAM.
- Removed the FFmpeg 'On-Demand' option from Libraries Preferences (this fixes Audacity not building if configured --without-ffmpeg).
- Compilation: Progress on making the Modules feature mainstream. Modules can now be individually enabled and disabled in Preferences.
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