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Audacity 3.4.2

Audacity

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 3.4.2 is a hotfix release. It fixes the following bugs:

  • #5568 Fix a crash when opening projects with zero-length clips.
  • #5032 When exporting a file, the sample rate of the tracks is now considered, and last-used sample rate is remembered.
  • #5555 Copy-pasting now pastes into audio again by default. This can be changed via Preferences -> Track Behavior -> Always paste audio as new clips.
  • #5549 Mix and render now also resets the gain for the resulting track.
  • #5571 Fix clips shifting to the right when effects are applied to them.
  • #5106 Fix clicks occurring when overdubbing a project with muted tracks.
  • #5533 Fix files being exported without a file extension in rare cases.
  • #5539 Show all sample rates possible for MP2 exports.
  • #5518 Fix pasting into labels.
  • #5543 Fix a crash when clearing loops.
  • #5529 Fix copying when "select all audio if selection required" is enabled.
  • #5598 #5552 Fix GTK detection and compilation for wxWidgets 3.2.4.
  • #5551 Fix Nyquist-related crashes.
  • #5604 Fix EQs in macros.
  • #5511 Fix a crash when closing Audacity.
  • #5476 Fix builds on armhf.

Download 64-bit: Audacity 3.4.2 | Standalone ~20.0 MB (Open Source)
Download 32-bit: Audacity 3.4.2 | Standalone
View: Audacity Home Page | Release Notes

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