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 update contents are as follows:

Major Changes

• Master Effects
  Audacity now supports master effects. Master effects refer to the effects 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 has been added. Vladislav Isaev and Marek Iwaszkiewicz have provided factory presets suitable for various scenarios, which 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. Updated instructions on creating custom themes can be found here.

• Performance Improvement
  Audacity now has significantly improved performance when dealing with 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.
• Removed the track name overlay preference setting and the blend themes preference setting.
• Scripting: Added GetInfo:Type=Selection.
• Added the Extras> Export > Export Selected Audio option.
• Importing raw data: Added support for offsets greater than 2 GB.
• Redesigned the what's new dialog.
• Added an option in the View menu to show/hide the RMS in the waveform.
• 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 high contrast themes.
• #5626 Fixed the quality slider for Ogg export on Linux.
• #6875 Fixed a bug that might open a project with the wrong sample rate.
• Various compiler warnings fixed and OpenBSD build fixes.

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