New features in this release

This page is an overview of the key new functionality that has been introduced in Audacity 2.2.2

• Details of all the major changes since 2.2.1 can be found in Release Notes 2.2.2.

Contents

1. Improved zooming
   1. Zooming with the mouse wheel
   2. Zoom Toggle
2. Vertical Zooming changes
3. Extra menu
4. Hover Appearance
5. Easier access to changing key bindings for shortcuts
6. Language selection in Preferences
7. Bug Fixes
8. Additional new features

Improved Zooming

For this release we have improved the way zooming using your mousewheel works and provided a new Zoom Toggle function.

• This is particularly for users who zoom in and out a lot, e.g. when using the repair effect to do detailed work removing clicks in the audio.

Zooming with the mouse wheel

We have changed mouse wheel zooming so that the focus for the zoom is:

• The leftmost or rightmost edge of the current selection, or the editing cursor position (if any of these exist).
• Otherwise zoom focus is as it was before, and is taken as the mouse pointer position.
• Mouse position will also be used as the zoom focus if the mouse position is inside the current selection.

See Zooming using the mouse wheel.

Zoom Toggle

Peter 08Jan18: ToDo-1 this section will need updating for Zoom Toggle if it remains in for 2.2.2 - including the re-purposing of the "Z" shortcut from "Select>At Zero Crossings" to View>Zoom>Zoom Toggle".

We have introduced a new command Zoom Toggle, accessed by View > Zoom > Zoom Toggle (shortcut Shift + Z).

Zoom Toggle menu entry in the View menu

Zoom Toggle button double size

Edit Toolbar with Zoom Toggle button at the far right of the Toolbar

Tracks Preferences showing Zoom Toggle selection dropdown

Vertical Zooming changes

There have been some changes to Vertical Zooming.

Simple Vertical Scrolling

• We have introduced a context menu for the Vertical Scale. This is activated by right-clicking in the Vertical Scale - see Simple mode vertical zooming for details.

Advanced Vertical Zooming

• Left-click, and click&drag, in the Vertical Scale remain available as a user-selectable option - see Advanced mode vertical zooming for details.
• You can turn on advanced mode for vertical zooming from Edit > Preferences > Tracks Behaviors and selecting Advanced Vertical Zooming.

Extra Menu

The Extra menu, created from consolidating Ext-Bar and Ext-Command menus that were introduced in the previous 2.2.1 release.

Hover Appearance

• In dark theme, the change in appearance of sliders when you hover over them is greater than before.
• In light and dark themes, buttons such as 'pause' and 'pin' now highlight when you hover over them and they are down. Previously there was no visible change.
  • The hover effect for buttons when they are up has been changed to work better in conjunction with this change.

Easier access to changing key bindings for shortcuts

For menu commands that are enabled (not grayed-out) if you Shift and click on the sub-menu item, instead of executing the command the Keyboard Preferences pop open at the chosen command. You can then change that (or any other) shortcut binding.

Language selection in Preferences

Interface Preferences has been upgraded so when selecting languages the proper spelling of these languages is shown with accented and special characters.

Bug Fixes

• There will undoubtedly be some ...
• Unicode page encodings fixed ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) .

Additional new features

This page New features in this release - appendix gives an overview of further new functionality that has been introduced in this release of Audacity.

Links

> Audacity Release Notes 2.2.2 - detailed release notes for this release of Audacity