{"id":7359,"date":"2017-12-09T17:26:15","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T17:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=7359"},"modified":"2017-12-09T17:26:15","modified_gmt":"2017-12-09T17:26:15","slug":"audacity-2-2-1-change-waveform-colorways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2017\/12\/audacity-2-2-1-change-waveform-colorways\/","title":{"rendered":"Audacity 2.2.1 Adds Ability to Change Waveform Colorways"},"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=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6630\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Audacity audio editor reached the 2.2.1 release a few days ago with performance improvements and various bug-fixes.<\/p>\n<p>Audacity 2.2.1 adds ability to change the colorway of the waveforms displayed in your project. The setting is per track and not per project so you can have multiple colorways in the same project.<\/p>\n<p>Other changes in Audacity 2.2.1:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>File menu called <b>&#8220;Save Other&#8221;<\/b> is reverted <b>&#8220;Export&#8221;<\/b><\/li>\n<li>Fix crash applying certain chain files<\/li>\n<li>Fix MIDI playback timing \/ synchronisation problems for Linux<\/li>\n<li>Fix Quick Play loops fail to start at click position<\/li>\n<li>Fix auto-scroll stopped working issue in 2.2.0 <\/li>\n<li>And various other <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.audacityteam.org\/wiki\/Release_Notes_2.2.1\/Bugs_Fixed\" target=\"_blank\">bug-fixes<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>How to Install Audacity 2.2.1 in Ubuntu:<\/h4>\n<p>The Audacity team does not offer pre-compiled Linux binaries. Besides building from source, a <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~ubuntuhandbook1\/+archive\/ubuntu\/audacity\" target=\"_blank\">third-party PPA<\/a> is available with Audacity 2.2.0 for Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 17.04, Ubuntu 17.10, and Ubuntu 18.04<\/p>\n<p><b>1.<\/b> Open terminal via Ctrl+Alt+T or by searching for &#8216;terminal&#8217; from app launcher. When it opens, run command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1\/audacity<\/pre>\n<p><i>Input your password (no visual feedback while typing) when it prompts and hit Enter to add the PPA.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/audacity-ppa-xenial-600x88.jpg\" alt=\"audacity ppa\" width=\"600\" height=\"88\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6633\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/audacity-ppa-xenial-600x88.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/audacity-ppa-xenial-450x66.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/audacity-ppa-xenial.jpg 750w\" 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 2.2:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get update\r\n\r\nsudo apt-get 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 reached the 2.2.1 release a few days ago with performance improvements and various bug-fixes. Audacity 2.2.1 adds ability to change the colorway of the waveforms displayed in your project. The setting is per track and not per project so you can have multiple colorways in the same project. Other changes in Audacity [&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":[576,834],"class_list":["post-7359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","category-news","tag-audacity","tag-audio-editor"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7359","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=7359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}