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Audacity 1.3.13 Beta Now Available.
The
Audacity Team has announced the release of Audacity
1.3.13 (Beta) for Windows, Mac and Linux/Unix.
This version now fully supports Windows 7 and contains many
bug fixes plus a few new features.
Changes
and improvements in Audacity 1.3.13:
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Control
Toolbar renamed to Transport Toolbar.
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Device
Toolbar (on by default) now contains all input and output
device choices, including host and recording channels.
Input/output choices are no longer in Mixer Toolbar on
Windows XP or some older operating systems. New Transport
> Rescan Audio Devices menu item to refresh the device
list.
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New
"Sync-Lock Tracks" feature (turned on in the
Tracks menu) to allow groups of audio and/or label tracks
to retain synchronisation when the track length changes.
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Equalization:
New "Manage Curves" dialog for importing and
exporting curves.
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Noise
Removal: New "Sensitivity" slider to adjust the
noise threshold, and new option to isolate noise.
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New
"Extended Import" Preferences for specifying
different importers to open specific file extensions.
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Improved
Automatic Crash Recovery with all project changes
autosaved.
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MIDI
tracks can be vertically zoomed, time shifted and display
bar lines. Note: the channel selection buttons are
not available in 1.3.13.
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(Windows
and Linux) The window Close button and other system
close or shutdown commands now quit on closing the last
window. File > Close now always clears to a new, empty
project.
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(OS
X) Simpler installer with top-level
"Audacity" folder.
Bug
fixes in Audacity 1.3.13
Interface:
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Cutting
or copying from a track at a given sample rate into a
track at another rate resulted in speed-changed audio.
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Generating
inside a clip could modify the clip length or create
spurious clips.
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Recorded
stereo tracks were only half the height of imported or
generated stereo tracks. Imported stereo files had a
"1" appended to the track name.
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Edit
> Region Save did not save the cursor position.
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(Windows)
Projects crashed when clicking rapidly inside the
interface or when applying repeated effects towards the
end of audio tracks.
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(Windows)
Some Unicode characters could not be typed into labels,or
caused a freeze using some input methods.
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(OS
X) Crash when quitting an empty project window, or
when closing the main project window while a progress
dialog was on screen.
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Numerous
other interface fixes including Dependencies dialog,
Keyboard Preferences and spurious lines drawn on waveform.
Imports
and Exports:
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Support
added for later versions of the optional FFmpeg library up
to current FFmpeg HEAD. This should significantly improve
FFmpeg support on Linux. FFmpeg downloads for Windows
and Mac
updated to v0.6. This fixes mono AAC files importing as
stereo, though current 0.5 versions of FFmpeg will still
work.
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Both
FFmpeg and LAME should now be properly detected even when
other versions of those libraries exist on the system.
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New
warning (on by default) for importing uncompressed audio
files. Better error messages when read-directly
uncompressed files are missing.
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Imported
ID3v2 metadata tags were removed when exporting without
the Metadata Editor appearing (for example, when using an
export command in Chains). Note: As a result of
this fix, ID3v1 tags must now be written by exporting
using (external program) and an installed LAME.
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U-Law/A-Law
files with WAV headers now use the standard 18 byte fmt
chunk, so should now be recognised by most telephony
applications.
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Variable
bit rate MP3s exported using "MP3 Files" were
larger than necessary because using the bit reservoir was
disabled.
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(OS
X) Files imported from iTunes could create invalid
characters in the.aup project file, causing an error when
re-opening the project. Note: An error
"reference to invalid character number" will
still occur if re-opening a project created in previous
Betas that contains such characters. To fix the issue,
open a back-up copy of the.aup file in a text editor, turn
off word wrap, then in the line indicated in the error
message, remove the string of characters that starts with
&# and ends with a semi-colon (;).
Other
bug fixes:
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Nyquist
effects: fixes for crashes, incorrect slider behaviour and
better support for backslashes, double quotes and Unicode
characters.
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(Windows
and OS X) Processing of VST effects was substantially
slower than in previous versions of Audacity.
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(OS
X 10.5 PPC) A first-time installation of Audacity Beta
would hang on launch if VST effects were detected.
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(Linux)
Recordings made with the pulse device crashed or stalled
when using overdub and/or software playthrough.
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(Linux)
Play-at-Speed crashed at 0.08 speed or lower if Audacity
was configured with libsamplerate.
Audacity
is a free wave (audio) editor.
Features:
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Full
record and edit functionality.
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Import
and export WAV, AIFF, Ogg Vorbis, and MP3 files.
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Unlimited
Undo.
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Amplitude
envelope editor.
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Customizable
spectrogram mode.
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Frequency
analysis window.
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Built-in
effects include Echo, Change Tempo, and Noise Removal.
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Supports
VST, AU and LADSPA plug-ins.
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