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Audacity audio editor and recording tool announced the new major 3.4.0 release after almost 2 weeks of beta testing.<\/p>\n
The new release features Beats and measures grid<\/b>, allows to easily align audio clips to the musical tempo and rhythm. It shows you the subdivisions of each measure depending on zoom level, and you can snap clips to the nearest beat.<\/p>\n
It also features new time stretching algorithm<\/b>, allows to change the duration of your audio clips without affecting their pitch non-destructively.\u00a0Just hold “Alt” (macOS: Option) while hovering over the top third of a clip edge to stretch it.<\/p>\n
The 3.4.0 also features a new export dialog<\/strong> with easier access to options such as sample rate and custom mapping (for 5.1 or 7.1 audio). Additionally, the “Browse” button uses the native file browser now!<\/p>\n New Export dialog<\/p><\/div>\n Other changes include:<\/p>\n Option 1: AppImage (official)<\/b> For Linux, click expand the “Assets<\/b>” section and choose download the .AppImage<\/b> package.<\/p>\n Then, right-click on the .AppImage file and go to its ‘Properties’ dialog. Add executable permission by enable ‘allow executing file as program<\/i>‘. Finally, right-click on it and select “Run” to launch Audacity.<\/p>\n Option 2: Ubuntu PPA<\/b><\/p>\n For choice, I’ve uploaded the new release package into unofficial PPA<\/a> for Ubuntu 22.04, 23.04, and Ubuntu 23.10.<\/p>\n NOTE:<\/b> Due to bug, 1. First, press Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b> on keyboard to open terminal. When terminal opens, run command to add the PPA:<\/p>\n Type user password (no asterisk feedback) when it asks and hit Enter to continue.<\/i><\/p>\n 2. For Linux Mint users, you may manually update system package cache by running command:<\/p>\n 3. Finally, install Audacity 3.4.0 either by running the\u00a0 command below in terminal:<\/p>\n Or, launch ‘Software Updater’ to update from an existing version:<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/audacity-new-exportdialog.webp\")
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How to Install Audacity 3.4.0:<\/h3>\n
\nIt provides official macOS .dmg, Windows .exe, and Linux .AppImage packages available to download at the link below:<\/p>\n\nDownload Audacity<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/a><\/p>\narm64<\/code> and armhf<\/code> packages are excluded in the PPA until the bug-fix due in next point release.<\/i><\/p>\nsudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1\/audacity<\/pre>\n
<\/p>\nsudo apt update<\/pre>\n
sudo apt install audacity audacity-data<\/pre>\n