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
- Spectral editing
- Playback Looping
- Context Menus
- Bug fixes
- Updating from Audacity 2.x to 3.x
Clip-handles
You now can drag clips around using the Clip-handles at the top of the waveform. Similarly, you also can drag labels around. The old Time Shift tool (the double arrows) has been replaced by this.
Spectral Editing
Spectral Editing has been one of two GSoC projects this year. It allows you to "paint" out unwanted noises (for example the meow of a cat) right from the spectrogram view, or paint in entirely new noises! If you ever wanted to insert a 666 into the spectrogram of your deathmetal song, this is the tool to use. You can read more about how this feature came to be in Edward's blog.
Source Separation
The other GSoC project has been AI-based source separation. It allows you to disentangle individual instruments from a song and split it into individual tracks. You can read more about how this feature came to be in Hugo's blog.
Playback Looping
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Context Menus
Since it's conception in 2000, Audacity had cross-platform support of both Windows, macOS and Linux as it's goal. But macOS at the time didn't have a right-click, so to not hide features from mac users, Audacity didn't have any right-click context menus. The situation has changed since then, and there no longer is anything hindering right-click context menus, so they now have been added to a few places.
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
