{"id":8200,"date":"2018-09-30T12:41:47","date_gmt":"2018-09-30T12:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=8200"},"modified":"2018-10-08T12:22:42","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T12:22:42","slug":"audacity-2-3-0-released-install-ubuntu-18-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2018\/09\/audacity-2-3-0-released-install-ubuntu-18-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Audacity 2.3.0 Released! How to Install it in Ubuntu 18.10, 18.04"},"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=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6630\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Audacity audio editor and recorder 2.3.0 was released one day ago. Here&#8217;s how to install it in <b>Ubuntu 18.10, Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Linux Mint 18 and 19<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>New features in Audacity 2.3.0 according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.audacityteam.org\/audacity-2-3-0-released\/\" target=\"_blank\">release note<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>New feature \u2013 \u201cPunch and Roll Recording\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Pinned-play-head can now be repositioned by dragging<\/li>\n<li>Play-at-speed now can be adjusted whilst playing.<\/li>\n<li>Toolbars controlling volume and speed can now be resized for greater precision<\/li>\n<li>Macros (formerly \u2018Chains\u2019) substantially extended\n<ul>\n<li>New Macro palette<\/li>\n<li>Macros can be bound to keyboard keys<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>New commands: New \u2018Tools\u2019 menu, and new \u2018Scriptables\u2019 commands<\/li>\n<li>Nyquist gains AUD-DO command<\/li>\n<li>Nyquist effects are now translatable and translated<\/li>\n<li>More dialogs have help buttons now<\/li>\n<li>Increased legibility of trackname display<\/li>\n<li>Half-wave option for collapsed tracks<\/li>\n<li>Sliding Stretch<\/li>\n<li>Dialog (option) for entering labels<\/li>\n<li>And numerous bug-fixes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/audacity230.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/audacity230-600x403.jpg\" alt=\"Audacity 2.3.0\" width=\"600\" height=\"403\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/audacity230-600x403.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/audacity230-450x302.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/audacity230-768x515.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/audacity230.jpg 1034w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>How to Install Audacity 2.3.0 in Ubuntu:<\/h4>\n<div class=\"arconix-box arconix-box-red\"><i class='fa fa-2x pull-left fa-exclamation-triangle'><\/i><div class=\"arconix-box-content\"><u>Audacity 2.3.0 for Linux is considered \u2018experimental\u2019 and may crash<\/u>. I&#8217;ve revert the PPA package to Audacity 2.2.2.<\/div><\/div>\n<p>For Ubuntu 16.04 and higher, the new release package can be easily installed from this <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~ubuntuhandbook1\/+archive\/ubuntu\/audacity\" target=\"_blank\">third-party PPA<\/a>.<\/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>Type your password (no asterisks 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\/2018\/09\/audacity-ppa-bionic-600x83.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"83\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/audacity-ppa-bionic-600x83.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/audacity-ppa-bionic-450x62.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/audacity-ppa-bionic.jpg 740w\" 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 2.3.0:<\/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 and recorder 2.3.0 was released one day ago. Here&#8217;s how to install it in Ubuntu 18.10, Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Linux Mint 18 and 19. New features in Audacity 2.3.0 according to the release note: New feature \u2013 \u201cPunch and Roll Recording\u201d Pinned-play-head can now be repositioned by dragging Play-at-speed now can [&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":[576,834,696],"class_list":["post-8200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","category-news","tag-audacity","tag-audio-editor","tag-audio-recorder"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8200","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=8200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}