Audacity 4.0.1

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Audacity is a free, easy-to-use and multilingual audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. You can record sounds, play sounds, import and export WAV, AIFF, AAC, MP4, Ogg Vorbis, and MP3 files, and more.

Use it to edit your sounds using Cut, Copy and Paste (with unlimited Undo), mix tracks together, apply effects to your recordings, change the speed or pitch of a recording, and really much more.

Audacity enables FLAC support. The program also has a built-in amplitude-envelope editor, a customizable spectrogram mode, and a frequency-analysis window for audio-analysis applications.

The program has the built-in effects, including Bass Boost, Wahwah, and Noise Removal, and it also supports VST plug-in effects.

Audacity is without a doubt one of the best and easiest digital audio editors on the market and it will meet any requirement at 100% no matter if it is home or professional audio edition.

Audacity Key Features:

Cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together.
Record live audio.
Supports 16-bit, 24-bit and 32-bit (floating point) samples (the latter preserves samples in excess of full scale).
Record computer playback on Windows Vista and later by choosing “Windows WASAPI” host in Device Toolbar then a “loopback” input.
Import and Export WAV, AIFF, AU, FLAC and Ogg Vorbis files.
Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs.
Edit WAV, AIFF, FLAC, MP2, MP3 or Ogg Vorbis sound files.
Import and export AC3, M4A/M4R (AAC) and WMA with the optional FFmpeg library (this also supports import of audio from video files).
Numerous effects including change speed or pitch and vocal reduction or isolation (given suitable stereo tracks).
And more! See the complete list of features.

Changes in version 4.0.1:

Features

Export multiple: export each track, or each labelled region, to its own file
Portable Windows version that runs without installation
Restored missing Audacity 3 keyboard shortcuts
“Open in file manager” on the Cloud projects tab
Clickable carousel dots on the Welcome screen
Liquid Glass app icon on macOS

Accessibility

The timeline and the track vertical rulers are now part of keyboard navigation
Opening the Effects panel focuses the “Add effect” button
Toast notifications are announced by screen readers and reachable by keyboard

Bug fixes

Fixed project corruption after a failed save
Fixed clips being messed up when converting .aup3 projects
Fixed opening projects and files with non-ASCII characters in their name or folder
Fixed other non-ASCII text issues: presets with Unicode names, starting a new project, and the input device always being the system default on Windows
Fixed Audacity failing to launch with Windows Smart App Control enabled
Fixed the AppImage failing to install or start on some Linux distributions
Fixed crash when opening the Effect menu in German
Fixed “Audacity quit unexpectedly” dialogs popping up during plugin validation
Fixed VST3 setting changes being reverted on playback start
Fixed typing values into effect controls
Dragging clips and labels across tracks is faster and no longer crashes, and dragging a duplicated clip onto its original no longer makes it disappear
Realtime effect windows stay open on edits and undo/redo, and undo/redo is faster with many effects
Fixed clips flickering when selecting after applying an effect
Fixed the playhead drifting from bars and beats above 120 BPM
The view no longer jumps on pause or double-click, and selecting a track by its header no longer moves the playhead
Fixed new labels being placed at the wrong position, and the first label’s name not being editable right away
No more “-9996 Invalid device” error dialog when input monitoring can’t open the device
Fixed exported file names being truncated
Fixed opening files dropped on the macOS Dock icon
Fixed upper-case extensions such as .WAV not being recognized on Linux
Fixed shortcuts not being saved
Fixed tooltips on the gain, volume and graphic EQ sliders
Fixed the meter dB range not being translated
Cloud: fixed resuming uploads after a lost connection, mono audio imported as stereo, and broken project audio previews
Cloud: no more redundant sync dialog on save, error when overwriting a local copy, or half-initialized window after a failed open

Homepage – https://www.audacityteam.org

Supported Operating Systems:

Windows 10, Windows 11.
macOS 11 and later.

Introducing Audacity 4: New tools & a new look

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Size: 47.5 MB

Audacity 4.0.1