{"id":10085,"date":"2020-05-21T16:23:53","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T16:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=10085"},"modified":"2020-09-02T14:48:33","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T14:48:33","slug":"install-audacity-2-4-1-ubuntu-20-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2020\/05\/install-audacity-2-4-1-ubuntu-20-04\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install Audacity Audio Editor 2.4.1 in Ubuntu 20.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/audacity-icon245.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6630\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Audacity audio editor 2.4.0 was released a few days ago. The release was paused due to a critical bug. Now version 2.4.1 arrived with quick fixes.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s new in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.audacityteam.org\/audacity-2-4-1-released\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Audacity 2.4.1<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Works on Mac Catalina.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>New Time Toolbar<\/b>.<\/li>\n<li><b>Presets for more effects can be imported and exported<\/b>.<\/li>\n<li><b>New Multi-View mode for tracks.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Export audio to Opus in Windows, Linux.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Easier to convert labels between point labels and range labels.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>New Loudness Normalization effect.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>New RMS measurement analyzer.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>New Noise Gate effect.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>New Spectral Delete effect.<\/b><\/li>\n<li>Tons of bug-fixes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/audacity-241.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"369\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10086\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/audacity-241.png 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/audacity-241-450x277.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>How to Install Audacity 2.4.1 in Ubuntu:<\/h4>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~ubuntuhandbook1\/+archive\/ubuntu\/audacity\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">unofficial PPA<\/a> has built the new release packages for Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 19.10, Ubuntu 18.04, and Ubuntu 16.04.<\/p>\n<p><b>1.<\/b> Open terminal either via <b>Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b> keyboard shortcut or by searching for &#8216;terminal&#8217; from application menu. When it opens, run command to add the PPA:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1\/audacity<\/pre>\n<p><i>Type user password (no asterisk feedback due to security reason) when it prompts and hit Enter to continue.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/audacity-ppa-bionic-600x83.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"83\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/audacity-ppa-bionic-600x83.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/audacity-ppa-bionic-450x62.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/audacity-ppa-bionic.jpg 740w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>2.<\/b> If you have a previous version installed, you can upgrade Audacity via Software Updater after adding the PPA.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/update-audacity-450x309.jpg\" alt=\"upgrade audacity\" width=\"450\" height=\"309\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/update-audacity-450x309.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/update-audacity-600x413.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/update-audacity.jpg 739w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>or run following commands one by one to check updates and install (or upgrade) audacity 2.4.1:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt update\r\n\r\nsudo apt install audacity<\/pre>\n<p><b>Uninstall:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>To remove the PPA repository, launch <b>Software &#038; Updates<\/b> utility and navigate to &#8216;Other Software&#8217; tab.<\/p>\n<p>To remove Audacity audio software, either use system package manager or run command in terminal:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get remove --autoremove audacity audacity-data<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Audacity audio editor 2.4.0 was released a few days ago. The release was paused due to a critical bug. Now version 2.4.1 arrived with quick fixes. What&#8217;s new in Audacity 2.4.1: Works on Mac Catalina. New Time Toolbar. Presets for more effects can be imported and exported. New Multi-View mode for tracks. Export audio to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[576],"class_list":["post-10085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","category-news","tag-audacity"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}