Audacity 3.6.0 Released with New Features and Bug Fixes

Audacity is one of the most popular free cross-platform open-source audio editors. It can be downloaded and used on Windows, macOS, and GNU/Linux devices, and has been maintained and updated for a long time with rich features.

Audacity 3.6.0 has now been released, and some of the updated contents are as follows:

Major Changes

• Master Effect
  Audacity now supports the master effect. The master effect refers to the effect applied to the entire project at once. More detailed information can be found in Using master effects & realtime effects .

• New Compressor and Limiter
  A new compressor and limiter have been added to replace the previous versions. When these effects are used as real-time effects, a gain reduction history is added. Vladislav Isaev and Marek Iwaszkiewicz have provided factory presets for various scenarios that can be obtained through the Presets & Settings button.

• New Themes
  Audacity now offers brand new and improved dark and light themes. You can switch between themes through Preferences -> Interface . The previously used themes still exist as classic themes, and earlier themes can be selectively installed as custom themes fromhere. The updated instructions for creating custom themes can be found here.

• Performance Improvement
  Audacity now has significantly improved performance when handling large projects and working on large screens.

Other Changes

• Increased FFmpeg 7 support.
• Now you can use Ctrl+V to paste audio files into Audacity.
• Now you can set Alternative waveform colors through custom themes.
• Deleted the track name overlay preference and the blend themes preference.
• Scripting: Added GetInfo:Type=Selection.
• Added the Extras>Export >Export Selected Audio option.
• Importing raw data: Added support for offsets larger than 2 GB.
• Redesigned the what's new dialog.
• Added an option in the View menu to show/hide the RMS in the waveform.
• The OpenVINO AI effect can now be downloaded from audacityteam.org/download/openvino/.

Bug Fixes

• #6340 When recording to a new track, the track now scrolls back into view again.
• #3825 The macro manager no longer shows parameterless operations as editable.
• #6138 Pressing Esc in some preference dialogs no longer saves the settings.
• #4504 Fixed stray orange lines in the high-contrast theme.
• #5626 Fixed the quality slider for Ogg export on Linux.
• #6875 Fixed a bug that could open a project with the wrong sample rate.
• Various compiler warnings fixed and OpenBSD build fixes.

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