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, for Windows and Mac

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

LAME is now built-in in Audacity

The LAME library, which is needed for exporting MP3 audio files, is now built-in to Audacity on Windows and macOS as a part of the application.

With previous releases it was necessary to download and locate the LAME library as an optional extra.

If you go to Libraries preferences you will see that the option to locate the library is no longer there and the dialog tells you what version of LAME is built-in.

LAME is not built into Audacity on Linux - you will still need to acquire an locate the optional LAME library.

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 of 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

Nyquist plug-ins are plain text files that have the filename extension '.NY'. The new Nyquist Plug-in Installer is itself a Nyquist plug-in. It simplifies the installation of other Nyquist plug-ins. It is installed by default in Audacity.

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 for Windows and Mac

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.

The experimental mod-script-pipe is now available with Audacity for Windows and Mac. You need to enable it in Modules Preferences.

It's now going to be included by default in the mac dmg and the windows installer and zip. Users 'just' need to enable it in module preferences. The testing script will probably be available on the main fosshub page too

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