Latest Source Download

toadybarker · January 3, 2024, 9:25pm

Dear All,
Have been looking around but dont seem to see an obvious link. Where can I download the latest source code for Windows 11 environment? I am looking for Audacity 3.4 version or close to it. Some of the reason I need version 3 is so that I can read *.AUD3 projects…

I have visual Studio but am not adverse to compiling with another IDE/setup if that is easier.

Eventually need to add some Menu items, and I noticed when looking before that all of the classes for Menu etc. have changed…

Thanks,
Tb

roadsterUK · January 4, 2024, 5:23pm

I have just uploaded what worked for me in the post above yours.

LWinterberg · January 4, 2024, 5:47pm

The source code can be found in Audacity ® | Downloads as well as Github.

stevelee · January 7, 2024, 12:16pm

@toadybarker You may find my script useful. It grabs tools, code and builds, currently still 3.3.3 or latest but you can hack it.

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/SteveALee/da24c2be633340b8791066dd98eb5d0b

README.md

## Build your own Audacity for Windows with ASIO driver support

**!!NB!! This builds Audacity 3.3.3 by default. If you want 3.4.2 then use "build-audacity.cmd -v3.4.2"** Other versions are unlikely to build due to project changes.

[![ko-fi](https://ko-fi.com/img/githubbutton_sm.svg)](https://ko-fi.com/stevelee1084)

Due to licensing restrictions the Audacity team cannot provide a prebuilt version with Windows ASIO driver support. But with this guide and script you can easily build your own Audacity with ASIO support.

Drivers are the glue between an audio program like Audacity and external hardware like a mixer or sound interface. The drivers usually used on Windows have limitations which can be overcome if you use ASIO drivers for your hardware. Specifically, low latency (delay) and multi channel support are available with ASIO drivers.

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build-audacity.cmd

@echo off
rem Version: 2.4.0
rem
rem Build audacity with ASIO support on Windows
rem See the following gist for details
rem  https://gist.github.com/SteveALee/da24c2be633340b8791066dd98eb5d0b
rem
rem Options (only one may be specified)
rem
rem --install or none - install tools and build

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roadsterUK · January 8, 2024, 9:13am

Stevelee’s script was a big help but I just had to add an extra option to the cmake command line for the 3.4.2 released code that I used.
-Daudacity_use_ffmpeg=off

This is completely counter intuitive but for some reason without that setting ffmpeg is omitted from the program and the option to load it is missing from the preferences option. The result of that is that no common formats such as wav and flac cannot be opened or saved.

stevelee · January 10, 2024, 9:14am

That is strange. I changed the make target to include those features. Apparently that is the way to do it now. It fixed the ui issue you saw. No idea why turning it off should turn it on!

I’ll double check in case something rolled back.

Thanks for the feedback.

toadybarker · January 10, 2024, 5:15pm

Ok… Thanks all for the suggestions. I will try it. Was away for the weekend so just getting back to this.

Thanks again, will let you know if I run into problems. Guess I was looking in the wrong place(s).

system · February 2, 2024, 9:26pm

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