{"id":34084,"date":"2021-06-29T16:16:49","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T16:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=34084"},"modified":"2021-07-04T15:00:54","modified_gmt":"2021-07-04T15:00:54","slug":"audacity-official-binary-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2021\/06\/audacity-official-binary-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"Audacity Finally Adds Official Binary for Linux via Appimage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/audacity-icon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-34062\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/audacity-icon.png 250w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/audacity-icon-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By releasing version 3.0.3 RC1, Audacity digital audio editor finally adds official Linux binary support!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the 64-bit <b>Appimage<\/b> package that runs in most Linux Distributions. Without installing, it&#8217;s a single executable that launches the software via double-click.<\/p>\n<div class=\"arconix-box arconix-box-red\"><i class='fa fa-2x pull-left fa-exclamation-triangle'><\/i><div class=\"arconix-box-content\">According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.audacityteam.org\/about\/desktop-privacy-notice\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Privacy Notice<\/a>, Audacity may COLLECT personal data necessary for law enforcement, litigation and authorities. And it dissuade those under 13 years old from using the App.<\/p>\n<p>It is incompatible with the GPL license. Use it at your own risk!<\/div><\/div>\n<p>Other changes in Audacity 3.0.3 so far includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>switch to 64-bit Windows binary, and drop Windows XP support.<\/li>\n<li>Improved default spectrogram colors<\/li>\n<li>Fix user interface display issue on HiDPI display in Linux.<\/li>\n<li>Fix that font size scales incorrectly.<\/li>\n<li>Fix crashes with Macros on files when the macro-output folder is in an unwriteable location<\/li>\n<li>No error message when attempting to save to SMB drive<\/li>\n<li>Fix Macros running on files can&#8217;t be cancelled<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/audacity-wxwidget31.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/audacity-wxwidget31-600x368.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"368\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-34063\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/audacity-wxwidget31-600x368.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/audacity-wxwidget31-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/audacity-wxwidget31-768x471.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/audacity-wxwidget31.jpg 1139w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To get the Audacity Appimage, go to:<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons aligncenter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-vivid-cyan-blue-to-vivid-purple-gradient-background has-text-color has-background\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/audacity\/audacity\/releases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Download Audacity (Appimage)<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Once you get it, add executable permission in file Properties dialog. Then click run to open the editor:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/audacity-appimage.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/audacity-appimage-600x354.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"354\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-34085\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/audacity-appimage-600x354.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/audacity-appimage-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/audacity-appimage-768x453.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/audacity-appimage.jpg 1013w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By releasing version 3.0.3 RC1, Audacity digital audio editor finally adds official Linux binary support! It&#8217;s the 64-bit Appimage package that runs in most Linux Distributions. Without installing, it&#8217;s a single executable that launches the software via double-click. Other changes in Audacity 3.0.3 so far includes: switch to 64-bit Windows binary, and drop Windows XP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[576],"class_list":["post-34084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-audacity"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34084","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=34084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}