Audacity 1.2.4 is a new stable version of Audacity.
It includes a couple of bug fixes and minor improvements and is recommended for all users.
Audacity 1.3.0 is a beta release that contains hundreds of new features, but this version is unfinished and unstable, and is recommended primarily for advanced users. You can install both Audacity 1.2 and 1.3 simultaneously.
Changes in Audacity 1.2.4
- The File menu now includes a list of recent files.
- The “Generate Silence” effect now prompts for a length.
- Audacity is now built with Vorbis 1.1, which features better encoding
quality and file compression. - Dragging sound files into the Audacity window now works on Mac OS X
and Linux, as well as Windows. (Before, it worked only on Windows.) - Better support for certain audio devices on Mac OS X 10.4 “Tiger”
- The “View History” window can now discard old undo levels to save disk
space on Windows. (This previously worked only on Linux and Mac.) - “Preferences” command is now in Edit menu.
- “Plot Spectrum” command is now in Analyze menu.
- Opening a project file saved by a later version of Audacity displays
an intelligent error message. Also, trying to import a project file
(instead of open it) displays an intelligent error message. - Audacity now compiles in Visual C++ .NET 2003.
- Other minor bug fixes.
- New or updated translations: Arabic (ar), Czech (cs), Finnish (fi),
Hungarian (hu), Japanese (ja), Norwegian (nb), Slovenian (sl),
Simplified Chinese (zh_CN), Traditional Chinese (zh_TW).
New features in Audacity 1.3
The new features in Audacity 1.3 have been grouped into the following six major categories. Click on the links below for more information.
- Collapse/Expand Tracks
- Multiple clips per track
- Selection Bar
- Improved Label Tracks
- QuickTime and Audio Units on Mac OS X
- Other features
More information and links to download the new stable and beta are available at the Audacity sourcefore site.
