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Audacity, the free open-source audio editor and recording application, released new 3.7.6 version few days ago. PPA updated for all current standard Ubuntu releases.<\/p>\n
The new release of this cross-platform (Windows, Linux, and macOS) computer software added the FFmpeg 8.0<\/strong> multimedia library support. With the most recent FFmpeg library, it supports loading more audio codecs, such as Sanyo LD\u2011ADPCM, G.728 (.g728), and ADPCM IMA Xbox. And, custom FFmpeg export options now supports exporting to OGG\/Opus audio formats using the libopus codec.<\/p>\n Audacity export with FFmpeg<\/p><\/div>\n For cloud users, besides uploading your audio to audio.com, it now also supports loading your audio projects or audio files from cloud<\/strong> (meaning audio.com), though you need to log in with a free account.<\/p>\n According to the release note<\/a>, Audacity 3.7.6 also added first simple implementation of Spectrogram Wavelet analysis<\/strong>. It’s a new visualization mode allows to analyze audio using wavelet transforms with more adaptive time\u2011frequency display than the traditional Fourier spectrogram.<\/p>\n The new feature should add a “Wavelet (1\/6 Octave Hann)” algorithm mode into the Spectorgram Settings dialog. However, I cannot see it in my case in Ubuntu 24.04.<\/p>\n I’m neither good at audio editing nor coding. It could be that I can’t meet the new “if condition” added in this commit<\/a> (see code below) to make it visible, or the feature is just disabled.<\/p>\n The new version also backported the 4.0 feature that user can middle-click on waveform and drag moving left\/right<\/b> just like the default behavior in GIMP, Kdenlive, Blender, etc applications. And, the scrollbar and viewport will update in sync for natural movement.<\/p>\n Other changes are mostly bug-fixes. They include:<\/p>\n Option 1:<\/b> Audacity provides official Linux package through AppImage<\/b>, which is available to download at the link below:<\/p>\n It’s a non-install Linux package format, that has most runtime libraries in bundle. Simply add executable permission from file properties dialog, then run it to launch the audio editor.<\/p>\n The AppImage is marked for 20.04\/22.04, though it works in most Linux. And, Ubuntu 22.04 and higher need to install NOTE: Both Flatpak and PPA packages below have the networking support disabled, meaning no audio.com upload and import support.<\/b><\/p>\n Option 2:<\/b> For choice, you may install Audacity 3.7.6 in most Linux through the community maintained Flatpak package<\/a><\/b>. It runs in sandbox environment, and supports both Linux Mint may simply search for and install it from Software Manager, though you need to first enable “unverified Flatpaks” in the preferences dialog.<\/p>\n While Debian\/Ubuntu may run the 2 commands below one by one to install the package.<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\n#ifdef WAVELET\r\n XO(\"Wavelet (1\/6 Octave Hann)\") ,\r\n#endif<\/pre>\n
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How to Install Audacity 3.7.6 in Ubuntu & other Linux<\/h3>\n
\nDownload Audacity<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nlibfuse2<\/code> library first in terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T).<\/p>\nsudo apt install libfuse2<\/pre>\n
<\/p>\namd64<\/code> and arm64<\/code> processors.<\/p>\n<\/p>\nsudo apt install flatpak<\/pre>\n
flatpak install https:\/\/dl.flathub.org\/repo\/appstream\/org.audacityteam.Audacity.flatpakref<\/pre>\n
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