Download Audacity 2.2.0 Beta

A beta release of Audacity version 2.2.0 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. In version 2.2.0 Among other things, the logo has been refreshed, the appearance can be adjusted using themes and the menus have been reorganized.

Improvements

• Four Selectable themes provided, with new ‘Light’ theme as default, plus option to customize
• Many menu changes:
  • Menus Reorganized
  • Extended menu bar provided
  • New keyboard commands for working with clips
• Help buttons ? in Preferences, Effects, Generators and Analyzers – and other places
• Non-Greying out of effects when no selection (and explanatory dialog with help button)
• Playback of MIDI (and Allegro) files imported into Note Tracks is now available.
• ‘Center’ option in Selection Toolbar
• Time Track cut/copy/paste
• Vote suddenly
• Major overhaul to documentation/manual including many new images and streamlined text on landing pages for in-program help.

Other Changes

• Append-record is now the default (use Shift + Record for old behavior, to record on a new track)
• The Esc key now cancels all click-and-drag actions. It also chooses among overlapping mouse click targets, which is especially useful in the Multi-Tool.
• Sync-Lock button removed (use menu item or keyboard shortcut instead)
• New preferences and preference pages
• Overhaul of much code, mostly by Paul Licameli:
  • Overhaul or clip handling code using newer (safer) idioms
  • Overhaul of envelope handling code to deal with some anomalies
  • Overhaul of exception handling for greater safety
• New Logo

Bug Fixes

• Major work on bug fixing. 198 bugs that were in 2.1.3 fixed for 2.2.0.
  • The most serious bug fixed this time round was bug 437 which was about what happens when Audacity is recording and runs out of storage.
  • Most of the bugs fixed were more minor, such as bug 463 which was about a case in which the numbering on the timeline could display incorrect times.