Audacity 4.0.1 released!

Audacity 4
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Audacity 4.0.1 is out!

You yelled, we listened! Audacity 4.0.1 brings numerous bug fixes, and resurrects some much-requested Audacity 3 features.

Back from Audacity 3

  • You can again export audio by track or label, just like old times
  • Better compatibility when opening aup3 projects
  • W to play the selection and Home/End to jump to the project start and end
  • Restored Corsican and other missing languages
  • Portable versions for Windows (both architectures)

Fixes

  • Fixed a bunch of crashes
  • Made keyboard and screen reader improvements
  • Projects and files with non-English characters in their names now open properly
  • Closing a project after a failed save no longer causes data loss. Or hair loss.
  • Fixed a couple more crashes, just because
  • Dragging clips between tracks no longer crashes, and is faster in projects with many realtime effects
  • Realtime effect windows stay open while you edit
  • …And a bunch of other fixes for audio.com, plugins, and the Linux AppImage

Report issues

If you encounter an issue, let us know! Search before you post, though.

Download links

Windows:
https://github.com/audacity/audacity/releases/download/Audacity-4.0.1/audacity-win-4.0.1-x86_64.msi
https://github.com/audacity/audacity/releases/download/Audacity-4.0.1/audacity-win-4.0.1-x86_64.7z (portable)

macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel):
https://github.com/audacity/audacity/releases/download/Audacity-4.0.1/audacity-macOS-4.0.1-universal.dmg

Linux:
https://github.com/audacity/audacity/releases/download/Audacity-4.0.1/audacity-linux-4.0.1-x86_64.AppImage

ARM64 versions for Windows and Linux, plus smaller single-architecture Mac downloads, are on GitHub:

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great work guys. looking good already.

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Is Audacity 4.0.1 feature complete?

Is Audacity 4.0.1 stable?

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Absolutely not. Not even close.

There are still various UI glitches. Stereo > Mono mixdown is still missing. The ability to set Multi-View (waveform + spectrogram) as a default is still missing. It remembers my shortcuts now without crashing the program, but… THEY STILL DON’T WORK! :face_with_symbols_on_mouth:

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No where near feature complete.

Missing (a non-exhaustive list)

  • Mix and render
  • Macros
  • All the “Cursor to” commands (previously under the Transport menu)
  • Has a silly “Record” menu when what it needs is the old “Transport” menu
  • Sound activated recording
  • The Select > Audio Clips commands
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Is there a reason Audacity itself doesn’t seem to know about the update? I opened Audacity 4 expecting it to immediately tell me a new version was available, but not only did it not do that, even when I go to Help>Check for update it tells me I’m up to date. I would think, given what seem to be significant stability and feature improvements to a product that started out (let’s be real here) pretty dismally broken, you would be rushing to get it out to everyone using Audacity 4 and not just the handful who happen to be here on the forum.

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Not only does the app appear unaware there’s an update, the download page on the website itself still points to 4.0.0. The forum appears to be the only place that has the actual link. Makes me wonder if it’s still beta.

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What is the hardware requirement for version 4.0.0 and 4.0.1. I ask because I have a quite old but still functional Dell Optiplex 780 running Linux Mint and it seems unable to execute the latest appimages of Audacity.

CPU: Intel© Core™2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz × 2

Terminal output:

$ ./audacity-linux-4.0.0-x86_64.AppImage
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libjack.so.0
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnss3.so
Incompatible processor. This Qt build requires the following features:
sse4.2 popcnt
/tmp/.mount_audaciknnheh/AppRun: line 34: 24866 Aborted                 (core dumped) "${APPDIR}/bin/audacity4portable" "$@"

$ ./audacity-linux-4.0.1-x86_64.AppImage
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libjack.so.0
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnss3.so
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libOpenGL.so.0
Incompatible processor. This Qt build requires the following features:
sse4.2 popcnt
/tmp/.mount_audacihEnjnA/AppRun: line 34: 24888 Aborted                 (core dumped) "${APPDIR}/bin/audacity4portable" "$@"
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Audacity 4 uses Qt 6.10. See:

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