The Free, Cross-Platform Sound Editor
Audacity® is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems. Learn more about Audacity... Also check our Wiki and Forum for more information.
The latest release of Audacity is 1.3.11 (Beta). Because it is a work in progress and does not yet come with complete documentation or translations into different languages, it is recommended for more advanced users. See New Features in 1.3 for more information about the 1.3.x Beta series.
For all users, Audacity 1.2.6 is a stable release, complete and fully documented. You can have Audacity 1.2.6 and 1.3.11 installed on the same machine.
Download Audacity 1.2.6
for Windows® 98/ME/2000/XP/Vista
Download Audacity 1.3.11 (Beta)
for Windows® 2000/XP/Vista
Read about provisional support for Windows 7
or Audacity 1.3.7 (Beta) for Windows® 98/ME
January 18, 2010: Audacity 1.3.11 released
The Audacity Team is pleased to announce the release of Audacity 1.3.11 (Beta) for Windows, Mac and Linux/Unix. This release fixes a number of bugs reported to us in 1.3.10. Thank you to everyone who sent us feedback.
We dedicate this release to David R.Sky who passed away in October 2009. David did some great work on Audacity plug-ins and his work lives on today in our program. He provided assistance to all who needed help. We shall miss him.
1.3.11 has provisional support for Windows 7 and is also strongly recommended for Windows Vista and Mac OS X 10.6, rather than 1.2 Stable. We ask everyone to help us test 1.3.11 and let us know of any problems you find. Advanced users are encouraged to test our subsequent fixes as we make them by downloading our Nightly Builds. Beta releases are still ongoing at present. Please subscribe to receive news of all our future releases.
- Bug fixes for:
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- Too much audio exported when exporting partial selections
- Exports via FFmpeg corrupted if included metadata; M4A now supports metadata export
- Nyquist plug-ins did not add labels to an existing label track
- Crash opening Preferences when no audio devices available
- Timer Record and Sound Activated Recording bugs
- (Windows) Installer now installs correctly over previous Audacity versions
- Miscellaneous crashes and interface issues
- Improvements:
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- (Windows) Higher resolution icon file
- New Sound Finder plug-in for labelling regions of audio
See Changes in Audacity 1.3.11 for more on 1.3.11 and the Beta series. Note: This release does not support Windows 98 or ME, for which 1.3.7 is still available.
December 01, 2009: Audacity 1.3.10 released
The Audacity Team is pleased to announce the release of Audacity 1.3.10 (Beta) for Windows, Mac and Linux/Unix. This release removes a significant number of crash or freeze problems and other major bugs. It brings us very close to our goal of a new 2.0 Release.
1.3.10 is strongly recommended for users on Windows Vista and 7, rather than 1.2.6 Stable. We ask everyone to help us test 1.3.10 and let us know of any problems you find. Advanced users are encouraged to test our latest fixes as we make them by downloading our Nightly Builds. We hope a final 1.3.11 Beta will follow soon. Please subscribe to receive news of all our releases.
Summary of Changes in 1.3.10:
- Imports/Exports bug fixes:
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- Freeze importing audio files in Pitch (EAC) view
- Corrupted WAV or AIFF imports and WMA exports
- Metadata Editor appeared before the Export window
- Effects bug fixes:
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- Crash/hang using Equalization; errors in Reverse and Truncate Silence
- Nyquist: Excessive memory consumption; errors in European locales; inaccurate text box values
- VST effects remained in menu when no longer available
- Other bug fixes:
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- Spurious "not writable/disk full" errors when saving projects
- Desynchronized playback/data loss when using multiple tracks
- Crash opening Preferences when no valid devices present
- (Windows) Audacity sometimes did not come up on top at launch
- (Linux) Crash when undoing or redoing label edits
- Improvements:
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- Improved copying/pasting of label-with-audio and system clipboard text
- Contrast Tool now modeless, intuitive handling of multiple project windows, various other improvements
See Changes in Audacity 1.3.10 for more on 1.3.10 and the Beta series. Note: This release does not support Windows 98 or ME, for which 1.3.7 is still available.
