Download Audacity 1.3.10 Beta

A new version was released on Tuesday in the development branch of the open source audio editor Audacity. The program, which is available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X, can record sound, import and export wav, aiff, ogg and mp3 files, and has an unlimited undo function. In addition, Audacity has a large collection of effects on board, such as fade-in and fade-out, echo, tempo change and noise reduction. More effects can be added easily as the program supports both vst and ladspaplugins. The changelog of this release shows the following changes:

Bug fixes for:

Imports and Exports:

• Freeze importing audio files when Default View Mode set to Pitch (EAC)
• Simultaneous On-Demand imports sorted incorrectly
• WAV or AIFF files imported as noise if Preferences set to copy in the data at 24-bit quality
• WMA exports corrupted if they contained metadata
• Metadata Editor appeared before the Export window when exporting to any format

Effects:

• Crash or hang using Equalization on longer tracks
• Reverse did not reverse clip boundaries
• Nyquist:
  • Excessive memory consumption led to slow processing or crashes
  • Values ​​appearing in text boxes not always the default or previously entered values
  • Errors running in European locales where comma used as decimal separator
• VST effects remained in Effect menu even when re-scanned and no longer available
• Truncate Silence produced incorrect results if silences spanned a block boundary

Other bug fixes:

• Spurious “not writable/disk full” errors when saving projects
• Playing, rendering or exporting multiple tracks led to desynchronized playback or loss of audio data
• Crash opening Preferences when no recording and/or playback devices enabled or connected
• Preferences window: OK button did not respond to ENTER when a tab selected in left-hand panel
• Mixer Board solo button handling
• (Windows) After a period launching correctly, Audacity sometimes did not come up on top at launch
• (Mac OS X) Correctly installed Help folder could not be found
• (Mac OS X and Linux) Output slider could affect VU playback meter which then did not reflect actual waveform volume level
• (Linux) Undoing or redoing a label edit could cause a crash

Changes and improvements:

• Linked audio and label tracks disabled until a future Beta version so they can be bug fixed
• Input volume slider will be disabled if it doesn’t have proper control of system slider; use the system slider instead
• Proper support for copying/pasting label-with-audio including label text; new Edit > Paste Text to New Label menu item to paste system clipboard
• Contrast Tool now modeless, more intuitive handling of multiple project windows, various other minor improvements

Please be aware of Known Issues at Release (also viewable in the included README.txt).

The following downloads are available:
Audacity 1.3.10 beta for Windows
Audacity 1.3.10 beta for Linux
Audacity 1.3.10 beta for Mac OS X