Audacity 3.0.5

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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. Audacity is a software that allows you to record andplay sounds. It 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, Wahwah, and Noise Removal, and it also supports VST plug-in effects.
 
Changes in 3.0.3:

• .The Windows version of Audacity is now 64-bit
  
• (Note: 32-bit plug-ins will not work on 64-bit Audacity)
  
• We have improved the default spectrogram colours
  
• We now provide an official binary for Linux in the form of an AppImage
  
• Audacity can now check to see if there is a newer version available
  
• Users are now able to send us the details of a serious error, if one occurs
  
• Multiple bugs fixed
  

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Changes in 3.1.3:

• 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
  

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Changes in 3.2.0:

Prominent changes

• Added a new Effects button to the tracks menu, allowing you to place realtime effects.
  
• Further information can be found can be found on
  
• Merged the mixer bar with the meter bars.
  
• Added a new Audio Setup button, replacing the Device Toolbar by default. The device toolbar can be re-added via the View > Toolbars menu.
  
• The Effects menu has gotten a new sorting. Other sorting and grouping options can be found in the Effects preferences.
  
• Updated the icons.
  
• Added a quick audio sharing feature.
  

Plugin changes

• VST3 effects are now supported.
  
• The following plugin formats are now realtime capable: VST3, LV2, LADSPA, Audio Units.
  
• Plugins now automatically get scanned, tested and enabled when Audacity starts.
  
• System changes
  
• Apple Silicon (arm64) is now supported on macOS
  

                    Note: When using an arm64 Audacity, you must use arm64 versions of FFMPEG and plugins.
                               Plugins for x86-64 (Intel macs) will not load.

•  For the time being, Audacity will continue to download x86-64 versions by default to avoid these  incompatibilities,
  
• FFMPEG 5.0 (avformat 59) is now supported, in addition to avformat 55, 57 and 58
  
• Added support for Wavpack
  
• On Linux, Audacity can now be compiled without JACK present.
  
• Audacity now uses XDG directories on Linux.
  

                  Note: If you are upgrading from a previous version, Audacity will keep using the ~/.audacity-data
                             and ~/.audacity folders until you delete them.

• Switched from mad to mpg123 as MP3 importer
  

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Changes in 3.2.1:

• Fixed Audacity crashing on startup on some systems.
  
• Fixed a crash when applying Waves Berzerk Distortion Mono to a mono track
  
• Fixed a freeze when very quickly starting and stopping playback.
  
• macOS: Homebrew FFmpeg installs are now found automatically
  
• macOS: Fixed Melda VST Plugin UI
  
• Building with VST3 support is now possible without Conan.
  

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Changes in 3.2.2:

• This is a patch release for Audacity 3.2. It enables use of VST2 as realtime effects and fixes some bugs.
  
• VST2 effects are now realtime capable.
  
• Additional plugins have been added to plugins.audacityteam.org
  
• Improved accessibility of the meters
  
• Fixed a crash when editing some macro parameters
  
• Fixed some play commands getting stuck in play mode
  
• Audacity no longer quietly discards changes in realtime effects but instead asks if you want to save before quitting
  
• Plugin scanning now lets you skip individual plugins if scanning gets stuck on them
  
• Plugin scanning no longer produces "Audacity crashed" windows when a plugin fails validation, and no longer shows the plugins in the macOS dock during validation
  
• Fixed an issue with labels losing focus on macOS Ventura
  
• Fixed various plugin-specific issues
  

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Changes in 3.2.3:

• This is a patch release for Audacity 3.2. It adds ability to share audio publicly and fixes some bugs.
  
• Audio can now be shared publicly on audio.com
  
• Fixed the screenshot tool
  
• Selecting audio no longer marks the project as changed
  
• A new toolbar with cut/copy/paste buttons has been added
  
• Plain UI for VST3 plugins no longer show MIDI CC parameters
  
• The effects sidebar no longer can fill the entire screen
  

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Changes in 3.2.4:

• Fixed the meters not retaining size
  

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Changes in 3.2.5:

• Fixes authorization flow for the audio.com sharing service
  

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Changes in 3.3.0:

Changes

• Some of the built-in effects are now realtime capable (Bass & Treble, Distortion, Phaser, Reverb and Wahwah).
  
• Added a new effect: Shelf Filter.
  
• Added an initial (beta) version of Beats and Bars.
  
• Reworked the bottom toolbar dock:
  
• Project Sample Rate is now found in Audio Setup -> Audio Settings (formerly known as Project Rate).
  
• The Snapping Toolbar (formerly known as Snap-To) is now independent of the Selection Toolbar.
  
• Added a new Time Signature Toolbar (beta). It is hidden by default.
  
• Improved Zooming behavior slightly (more to come in the future).
  
• Added a new ruler, Linear (dB). This ruler goes from 0 dBFS to -∞ dBFS and better reflects the volume as shown in the recording/playback meters.
  
• When copying clips between projects, you now can choose between whether to copy smart clips or just the visible portion.
  
• Added a delete button to the Cut/Copy/Paste toolbar.
  

Bugfixes

• Audacity no longer dithers tracks unnecessarily.
  
• Linux playback now handles output latency better (less stutters).
  
• The EQ effect no longer resets clip names.
  
• Audacity no longer crashes when trying to load projects with plugins that since have been deleted.
  
• Resampling a track no longer trims it.
  

Libraries

• FFmpeg 6 (avformat 60) is now supported.
  
• Moved from Breakpad to Crashpad.
  

Extracted various libraries from within Audacity.
 
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Changes in 3.3.1:

• Fixed cut lines massively inflating project size.
  
• Fixed custom project sample rates being uneditable.
  
• Fixed crash reporting being disabled.
  
• Audacity now shows an error if the upload to audio.com exceeds file size limits.
  
• Fixed an error in calculating channels when uploading to audio.com.
  

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