For users of Audacity 3.4.x, the popular audio editor and recorder app just announced the second update for this release series.

It’s Audacity 3.4.2 that includes following bug-fixes:

• Fix crash when opening projects with zero-length clips.
• Fix a crash when clearing loops.
• Fix Nyquist-related crashes.
• Fix a crash when closing Audacity.
• When exporting a file, the sample rate of the tracks is now considered, and last-used sample rate is remembered.
• Copy-pasting now pastes into audio again by default. Though, there’s an option to change in Preferences.
• Mix and render now also resets the gain for the resulting track.
• Fix clips shifting to the right when effects are applied to them.
• Fix clicks occurring when overdubbing a project with muted tracks.
• Fix files being exported without a file extension in rare cases.
• Show all sample rates possible for MP2 exports.
• Fix pasting into labels.
• Fix copying when “select all audio if selection required” is enabled.
• Fix GTK detection and compilation for wxWidgets 3.2.4.
• Fix EQs in macros.
• Fix builds on armhf.

How to Install Audacity 3.4.2

Audacity is available to install Ubuntu Linux through a few different ways. They include AppImage, Ubuntu PPA, and Flatpak. Just choose either one that you prefer.

Option 1: AppImage (official)
It provides official macOS .dmg, Windows .exe, and Linux .AppImage packages available to download at the link below:

For Linux, click expand the “Assets” section and choose download the .AppImage package.

Then, right-click on the .AppImage file and go to its ‘Properties’ dialog. Add executable permission by enable ‘allow executing file as program‘. Finally, right-click on it and select “Run” to launch Audacity.

Option 2: Ubuntu PPA

For choice, I’ve uploaded the new release package into unofficial PPA for Ubuntu 22.04, 23.04, and Ubuntu 23.10 with amd64, arm64, and armhf support.

1. First, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal. When terminal opens, run command to add the PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/audacity

Type user password (no asterisk feedback) when it asks and hit Enter to continue.

2. For Linux Mint users, you may manually update system package cache by running command:

sudo apt update

3. Finally, install Audacity 3.4.2 either by running the  command below in terminal:

sudo apt install audacity audacity-data

Or, launch ‘Software Updater’ to update from an existing version:

Option 3: Flatpak

Audacity is also available to install as universal Flatpak package, that run in sandbox.

First, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal. Then, Ubuntu users can install Audacity as Flatpak by running the 2 commands below one by one:

sudo apt install flatpak

flatpak install https://dl.flathub.org/repo/appstream/org.audacityteam.Audacity.flatpakref

Uninstall:

To uninstall Audacity 3.4.2 PPA package, you have 2 choices:

• Purge the Ubuntu PPA, which also downgrade the installed packages to the stock versions in your system:

  sudo apt install ppa-purge && sudo ppa-purge ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/audacity

• Or, remove Audacity package by running command:

  sudo apt remove --autoremove audacity audacity-data

  Then, remove the Ubuntu PPA via command:

  sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/audacity

To uninstall the Flatpak package, use command:

flatpak uninstall --delete-data org.audacityteam.Audacity

Also run flatpak uninstall --unused to remove useless runtimes.