New features in this release

Version 3.1.0 is ...
- Details of all the major changes since 3.0.3 can be found in Audacity Release Notes 3.1.0.
Contents
There is an overview video for 3.1 available on YouTube:
- Clip-handles
- Stackable real-time effects
- Playback Looping
- Context Menus
- Bug fixes
- Updating from Audacity 2.x to 3.x
Clip-handles
Clip-handle drag-bars ... TBP
Stackable real-time effects
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Playback Looping
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Context Menus
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Bug fixes
P1 Bugs
- #1421: Show track name as overlay
- #1579: Bad link to FFmpeg on the Plug-ins page on the Audacity Website
P2 Bugs
- #1174: Audacity crashes when the output directory for Macros is set to C:\
- #1358: Shortcut Instead Brings Up Keyboard Preferences Dialog
P3 Bugs
- #1183: Fix wave clip record starting position
- #1371: Label tracks do not have clip handles
- #1422: "Fit to height" does not fit
P4 Bugs
- #1463: Build fails, if root directory is not a Git repository
P5 Bugs
- #1042: (C++17) Debug error on closing Audacity on Windows 10
Updating from Audacity 2.x to Audacity 3.x
With the release of Audacity 3.0.0 the project file structure of Audacity was changed significantly with the entire project contained in a single unified database file.
If you have already updated to any 3.x version you should already be aware of this.
But if you are updating from any earlier 2.x Audacity version please read Updating from Audacity 2.x to Audacity 3.x.
Audacity 3.x can usually open AUP files created in older 2.x.x versions of Audacity , but saving the project in 3.x will prevent it opening again in Audacity versions prior to 3.0.0.
- Note that this will leave behind the old AUP file and its associated _data folder which you will probably want to delete to recover disk space.
- Audacity version 3.x should be able to open projects from Audacity 1.1 onwards - but not from 1.0
Links
> Audacity Release Notes 3.x,x - detailed release notes for this release of Audacity
