multiple versions of Audacity on same lap top

[Jill]

Is this possible without crashing the programs? I am currently running version 1.2 on Windows 7. J

[kozikowski]

You can have versions 1.2 and 1.3 in perfect safety. They were designed to co-exist. You can have a "portable" version of Audacity as well, but I'm not as clear about that.

You do need to know that Audacity 1.3 Projects will not open in 1.2.

In addition...

Audacity 1.2 is very old and no longer supported,
patched, corrected, or updated. Audacity 1.2 can
be unstable on newer computers.

Download and install the latest Audacity 1.3 from here...

http://audacityteam.org/download/

You can install both audacity 1.2 and Audacity 1.3 on
the same computer, but only use one at a time.

Audacity 1.2 will not open projects made on Audacity 1.3.

If you use MP3 or some of the more modern audio
compression formats, get Lame and FFMpeg software
from the same web site. Do not use older software
or software from other web sites, even though they
may have the same names.


Koz

[kozikowski]

Just so I'm clear, you can only run one Audacity at a time, but you can have multiple instances or windows open at once. Sometimes that's the only way to copy and paste between songs.

Koz

[steve]

Is this possible without crashing the programs? I am currently running version 1.2 on Windows 7. J

Yes you can but there may be some specific steps that you need to take. How many and which versions do you want?
Audacity 1.2.x is not recommended for Win 7.