New features in this release

This page is an overview of the key new functionality that has been introduced in Audacity 2.3.1

• Details of all the major changes since 2.3.1 can be found in Audacity Release Notes 2.3.2.

Contents

1. LAME is now built-in in Audacity
2. Select button in Track Control Panel
3. Nyquist Plug-in Installer
4. Macros - "cleaned" folder renamed to "Macro-output"
5. mod-script-pipe available with Audacity, on fosshub audacity-devel

Coming up soon (Paul):

• Nyquist Effects now translatable.
• Spectrogram and Wave of same audio shown in the same track.
  • It can already be done by scriptables, for mono, but is a hacky approach.

Not in 2.3.2

1. Equalization effect split
2. Quick Fix
3. Normalize for Loudness
4. Improved Compressor effect
5. Additional new features

LAME is now built-in in Audacity

Details TBP

Select button in Track Control Panel

There is now a Select button in the Track Control Panel.

The whole of an individual track can be selected by clicking this Select button.

Holding Ctrl (or ⌘ + A on a Mac) and clicking on the Select button toggles the selectedness of the track.

You can still select a whole track in the previous ways if that is what you are used to: Click in the neutral gray area if the Track Control Panel (this is hard when the tracks are reduced size, as in this image) Double-click in the track.

Nyquist Plug-in Installer

The new The Nyquist Plug-in Installer is itself a Nyquist plug-in that simplifies the installation of other Nyquist plug-ins.

All Nyquist plug-ins are plain text files that have the filename extension '.NY'. This plug-in installer provides a file browser for selecting the plug-in '.NY' file, and then copies the file to the correct location. Once the plug-in has been installed, it may be enabled in the 'Plug-in Manager.'

For details please see this page.

Macros - "cleaned" folder renamed to "Macro-output"

The folder that is created by Audacity when running a Macro on files, or when an Export command is used in a Macro that is run on the current project, has been renamed to "Macro-output" to give it a more meaningful name.

The created folder used to be called "cleaned" (which was a hangover from functionality that used to be in Audacity, bit was removed many versions ago).

For details please see this page.

mod-script-pipe available with Audacity, on FossHub audacity-devel

The add-on module "mod-script-pipe" provides a programming interface that allows Audacity to be controlled by an external program or from the command line. When enabled, mod-script-pipe intercepts scripting commands that are sent to it from an external program (usually Python) via a named pipe.

mod-script-pipe is now available with Audacity, on fosshub audacity-devel.

Details TBP

Bug Fixes

There will be some

Peter 01Apr19: Not now in 2.3.2

Equalization effect split

The former Equalization effect has now been split into two separate effects:

• Filter Curve
• Graphic EQ

Details (and images?) TBP

==Additional new features== This page New features in 2.3.2 - appendix gives an overview of further new functionality that has been introduced in this release of Audacity.

Links

> Audacity Release Notes 2.3.2 - detailed release notes for this release of Audacity