{"id":47206,"date":"2024-09-10T16:06:04","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T16:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=47206"},"modified":"2024-09-10T16:06:04","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T16:06:04","slug":"audacity-3-6-3-legacy-effects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2024\/09\/audacity-3-6-3-legacy-effects\/","title":{"rendered":"Audacity 3.6.3 Released! Add Back Legacy Effects (Ubuntu PPA)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/audacity-icon.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-43151\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/audacity-icon-250x250.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/audacity-icon-250x250.webp 250w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/audacity-icon-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/audacity-icon-600x600.webp 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/audacity-icon-768x768.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/audacity-icon.webp 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Audacity audio editor announced 3.6.2 release a week ago, then version 3.6.3 a day ago with a quick-fix.<\/p>\n<p>As you may know, Audacity 3.6.0 introduced new compressor and limiter effects, replacing the old ones. For those who prefer the classic effects, the new point release added a &#8220;Legacy&#8221; effects section, under &#8220;Effects&#8221; menu, that contains the old Limiter, Compressor and Classic Filters.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/audacity-legacy-effects.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-47207\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/audacity-legacy-effects-700x486.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/audacity-legacy-effects-700x486.webp 700w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/audacity-legacy-effects-300x208.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/audacity-legacy-effects-768x533.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/audacity-legacy-effects.webp 1148w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Besides that, the release includes many fixes for bugs, including hang after undoing, crash after recording long sessions, crash when failing to load a cloud project, LV2 plugin detection on macOS and Windows, as well as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>zero line going missing.<\/li>\n<li>App window turns white on some systems.<\/li>\n<li>One CPU core 100% when app window minimized.<\/li>\n<li>Miss pitch indicator on Linux when hitting double digits.<\/li>\n<li>cut does not put clips into the clipboard.<\/li>\n<li>paste sometimes resets the clip name.<\/li>\n<li>Cloud projects sometimes not opening.<\/li>\n<li>Multi-channel OGG and Wavpack import issue.<\/li>\n<li>Track header UI broken when resizing channels in a stereo track.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The release as well revert the behavior of selection change when importing a clip. In the previous 3.6.x releases, when you import an audio file audacity auto selects that imported audio, and replaces and thus destroys any selection that the user may have carefully made.<\/p>\n<h3>Get Audacity 3.6.3<\/h3>\n<p>The Github releases page provides more about the changes, as well as binary packages for all the supported platforms. They are available to download at the link below:<\/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 (under Assets)<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>For Linux, it&#8217;s an universal <b>.AppImage<\/b> package. Just add &#8220;Executable as Program&#8221; permission from file Properties dialog. Then, user can click run the AppImage to launch the audio editor.<\/p>\n<p>NOTE: Ubuntu since 22.04 does NOT support AppImage out-of-the-box. Run command in terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) to enable:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo apt install libfuse2<\/pre>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/audacity-360-appimage.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-46907\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/audacity-360-appimage-700x452.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/audacity-360-appimage-700x452.webp 700w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/audacity-360-appimage-300x194.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/audacity-360-appimage-768x496.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/audacity-360-appimage.webp 1189w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For those who prefer the classic <code>.deb<\/code> package, I&#8217;ve upload the new release package into this <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~ubuntuhandbook1\/+archive\/ubuntu\/audacity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unofficial Ubuntu PPA<\/a> for Ubuntu 22.04 and Ubuntu 24.04 on AMD\/Intel and ARM platforms.<\/p>\n<p>To add the PPA and install the .deb package, open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run the commands below one by one:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1\/audacity<\/pre>\n<pre>sudo apt update<\/pre>\n<pre>sudo apt install audacity<\/pre>\n<p>Audacity is also available to install as <a href=\"https:\/\/flathub.org\/apps\/org.audacityteam.Audacity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Flatpak package<\/a>. It&#8217;s an universal Linux package format run in sandbox, through it&#8217;s at version 3.6.2 at the moment of writing.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Audacity audio editor announced 3.6.2 release a week ago, then version 3.6.3 a day ago with a quick-fix. As you may know, Audacity 3.6.0 introduced new compressor and limiter effects, replacing the old ones. 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