Download Audacity 2.1.3

Version 2.1.3 of Audacity has been released. Available for Windows, Linux, and OS X, this open source audio editor can record sound, import and export wav, aiff, ogg, and mp3 files. It has an unlimited undo function and also 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 following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

Audacity 2.1.3 Released

Audacity 2.1.3 now properly supports Windows 10 (thanks to an upgrade of the PortAudio library) and on macOS has some previously missing support for Magic Mouse/Trackpad.

However, the goalposts we’re aiming for keep moving, and we only have partial support for Macs updated to Sierra. We found on some Mac Sierra machines that important extensions to the core of Audacity can become unavailable. Full details of Mac Sierra support here.

Audacity 2.1.3 is the last version of Audacity that will officially support Windows XP.

New in Audacity 2.1.3:

New features – see updated manual for details:

• New Distortion effect, Rhythm Track (was called Click Track) and Sample Data Import Also effects are no longer grayed-out when in pause.
• New scrub ruler
• New ‘pinned’ option so the waveform moves and the recording/playing head stays still.
• New features in Timer Record

Changed in Audacity 2.1.3:

• On Mac, audacity.app is now added to /Applications/ directly rather than adding a folder there.
• 64 bugs/annoyances in 2.1.2 fixed of which 15 were long standing issues.
• Lots done to systematically deal with memory leaks.
• Fuller details on the changes since 2.1.2 can be found in the 2.1.3 Release Notes.