Software Update: Audacity 1.3.11 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:

• Bug when exporting partial selections caused too much audio to be exported is fixed
• Fix corrupt files exported through FFmpeg when metadata included (metadata is now exported correctly in M4A files)
• Prevent saving a new Audacity Project over an existing one as this could corrupt both projects
• Improved help for files that cannot be imported because the relevant optional library is missing

Effects:

• Allow effects which change the length of the audio they work on to also be applied to selected label tracks, thus keeping them synchronized
• Fixed inability in Nyquist plug-ins to add labels to an existing label track
• (Mac) Equalization window was corrupted after Preview
• (Linux 64-bit) Fixed crash Generating Click Track

Audio Devices:

• Fixed bug causing recording to stop short when the recording sample rate is not supported by the sound device and libsamplerate is used for resampling
• Fix crash when opening Preferences on a machine where there are no available audio devices
• Fixes for bugs using Timer Record and Sound Activated Recording

User Interface:

• Sizes of some dialogs adjusted to ensure they fit on the screen
• Fix for supposedly “hidden” items appearing on screen with large monitors
• Various keyboard shortcut and translation fixes

Other bug fixes:

• Several timing-dependent crashes and minor incorrect behaviors have been fixed
• Windows installer now installs correctly over previous versions of Audacity

Changes and improvements:

• (Windows) Better icon file with higher resolution and transparency
• New SoundFinder plug-in to label regions of audio between silences, so allowing silences between tracks to be excluded when exporting multiple

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

The following downloads are available:
Audacity 1.3.11 beta for Windows
Audacity 1.3.11 beta for Linux
Audacity 1.3.11 beta for Mac OS X