- In early October Apple released its latest operating system 10.15.x known as Catalina. Audacity 2.3.3 is not officially supported yet to run under Catalina (the new version 2.4.0 does run properly on Catalina).It appears to launch and run fine but it fails to record from the microphone (or external USB device) yielding only a flat-line silent recording.
- Audacity 2.3.2 (and 2.3.1 - and the upcoming 2.3.3) are NOT supported on Catalina. They are 64-bit versions of Audacity and Catalina is now 64-bit only. Testing, however, has shown that while much of Audacity works properly on Catalina, there are serious problems with recording.
Download Audacity for Mac to record, digitize, import, export, edit, combine, preview, and analyze multi-track audio files. Audacity has had 1 update within the past 6 months.
Download Audacity For Windows
System requirement for Windows 7 / Windows 8 (64-bit) with RAM Recommended 4 GB / 2 GHz. Windows Vista (32 or 64-bit)/ Windows 7 / Windows 8 (32-bit) with RAM 4 GB / 2 GHz. For Windows 2000/ XP (32- or 64-bit) requires RAM 512 MB/1 GHz.
Download Audacity for MacOS
System Requirements for MacOS, Audacity runs best with at least 2 GB RAM and a 2 GHz processor. For lengthy multi-track projects, we recommend a minimum of 4 GB RAM and 4 GHz processor.
Download Audacity for GNU/LINUX
Audacity will run great with at least 1GB RAM and a 2 GHz processor. Because Audacity was basically written when computers were less powerful, you may be capable to run it on much less powerful hardware too.
Download Audacity
Download the free Audacity audio editor for Windows, Mac or Linux:
Audacity is free of charge. No registration or hardware purchase required.
More Information
- Although there are plenty of sellers of Audacity software on Ebay and Amazon, none of these sellers are affiliated to Audacity, and none have participated in any way to the Audacity project. Audacity is free software.
- To build Audacity yourself, download the source code and go for it.
- You may copy, share, modify and/or resell Audacity, under the terms of the GNU GPL.
VERSIONS
Audacity 2.4.2
Except for the regular bug fixes, the Audacity version 2.4.2 provides the following leading new features and functionalities.
Features Updated:
- MP3 exports and imports without padding: Audacity now maintains LAME's gapless playback info, allowing MP3s to be imported and exported without additional padding. And able to read MP3 files exported by Audacity without the filling.
- Reset Configuration: A new command added to the Tools menu: Tools > Reset Configuration. It resets your Audacity preferences, Configuration, export settings, and toolbars, to default settings.
Bugs fixed
Now fixed 41 bugs since 2.4.1. The exact number of bugs fixed depends on whence you count, but anyway, it's a good count of fixes.
Note: For more details information visit 2.4.2 official release note
Audacity 2.4.1
Features Updated:
- Catalina: With 2.4.1, it has now hooked up with Apple's ‘notarization system'. Audacity on Mac is notarized and runs on Catalina.
- Time Toolbar: It has now split the playing/recording time off from the selection toolbar, and it can now be pulled to make it larger.
- Multi-views: It added a new optional mode for viewing audio. In this new model, you can see both the spectrogram and waveform at the same time.
Bug Fixes:
Audacity 2.4.1 fixes a severe bug in the abruptly available Audacity 2.4.0.
With 2.4.0, we blundered. In 2.4.0, you'd get loss of and corruption of audio when you had two projects open at the same time. But now it Fixed in this version.
Audacity 2.4.0
In this version, a lot of bugs from 2.3.3 had to get fixed with the focus work.
Updated Features:
- Catalina: Primarily, Audacity has now tied up with Apple's ‘notarization system'. Now Audacity on Mac is notarized and runs on Catalina.
- Time Toolbar: The latest toolbar can be ‘unlocked' from the footer of the screen, and made larger for more cool viewing.
- Multi-views: You can get into this multi-view mode by clicking on the down-pointing triangle alongside the panel's track name on the left of the wave.
Bug fixes
In 2.3.3 release, the bug causes loss/corruption of audio. The bug occurs when you have two projects open at the same time and paste audio from one project into another. It has fixed in 2.4.0.
Website / Download: Windows, macOS, Linux / Release NotesMac Os Catalina Free Download
/Download Audacity For Windows
System requirement for Windows 7 / Windows 8 (64-bit) with RAM Recommended 4 GB / 2 GHz. Windows Vista (32 or 64-bit)/ Windows 7 / Windows 8 (32-bit) with RAM 4 GB / 2 GHz. For Windows 2000/ XP (32- or 64-bit) requires RAM 512 MB/1 GHz.
Download Audacity for MacOS
System Requirements for MacOS, Audacity runs best with at least 2 GB RAM and a 2 GHz processor. For lengthy multi-track projects, we recommend a minimum of 4 GB RAM and 4 GHz processor.
Download Audacity for GNU/LINUX
Audacity will run great with at least 1GB RAM and a 2 GHz processor. Because Audacity was basically written when computers were less powerful, you may be capable to run it on much less powerful hardware too.
Download Audacity
Download the free Audacity audio editor for Windows, Mac or Linux:
Audacity is free of charge. No registration or hardware purchase required.
More Information
- Although there are plenty of sellers of Audacity software on Ebay and Amazon, none of these sellers are affiliated to Audacity, and none have participated in any way to the Audacity project. Audacity is free software.
- To build Audacity yourself, download the source code and go for it.
- You may copy, share, modify and/or resell Audacity, under the terms of the GNU GPL.
VERSIONS
Audacity 2.4.2
Except for the regular bug fixes, the Audacity version 2.4.2 provides the following leading new features and functionalities.
Features Updated:
- MP3 exports and imports without padding: Audacity now maintains LAME's gapless playback info, allowing MP3s to be imported and exported without additional padding. And able to read MP3 files exported by Audacity without the filling.
- Reset Configuration: A new command added to the Tools menu: Tools > Reset Configuration. It resets your Audacity preferences, Configuration, export settings, and toolbars, to default settings.
Bugs fixed
Now fixed 41 bugs since 2.4.1. The exact number of bugs fixed depends on whence you count, but anyway, it's a good count of fixes.
Note: For more details information visit 2.4.2 official release note
Audacity 2.4.1
Features Updated:
- Catalina: With 2.4.1, it has now hooked up with Apple's ‘notarization system'. Audacity on Mac is notarized and runs on Catalina.
- Time Toolbar: It has now split the playing/recording time off from the selection toolbar, and it can now be pulled to make it larger.
- Multi-views: It added a new optional mode for viewing audio. In this new model, you can see both the spectrogram and waveform at the same time.
Bug Fixes:
Audacity 2.4.1 fixes a severe bug in the abruptly available Audacity 2.4.0.
With 2.4.0, we blundered. In 2.4.0, you'd get loss of and corruption of audio when you had two projects open at the same time. But now it Fixed in this version.
Audacity 2.4.0
In this version, a lot of bugs from 2.3.3 had to get fixed with the focus work.
Updated Features:
- Catalina: Primarily, Audacity has now tied up with Apple's ‘notarization system'. Now Audacity on Mac is notarized and runs on Catalina.
- Time Toolbar: The latest toolbar can be ‘unlocked' from the footer of the screen, and made larger for more cool viewing.
- Multi-views: You can get into this multi-view mode by clicking on the down-pointing triangle alongside the panel's track name on the left of the wave.
Bug fixes
In 2.3.3 release, the bug causes loss/corruption of audio. The bug occurs when you have two projects open at the same time and paste audio from one project into another. It has fixed in 2.4.0.
Website / Download: Windows, macOS, Linux / Release NotesMac Os Catalina Free Download
/ New FeaturesImprovements
- Audacity now runs on Mac Catalina.
- A new Time Toolbar showing current record/playback time has been split from the Selection Toolbar. It can be resized large.
- Presets for more effects can be imported and exported.
- A new Multi-View mode for tracks. In this mode both
- spectrogram and waveform views are shown at the same time.
- Opus available as a new audio export format on Windows and Linux.
- Easier to convert labels between point labels and range labels.
- New Loudness Normalization effect.
- New RMS measurement analyzer.
- New Noise Gate effect.
- New Spectral Delete effect.
Over 100 bugs have been fixed for this release, including over 50 priority 1 and priority 2 bugs.
Here is a small selection of some of the most important.
Key P1 bugs fixed
- P1 2227 - Mac: Audacity does not run properly on macOS 10.15 Catalina
- P1 2237 - Equalization effects have no Import or Export for curves
- P1 2261 - Graphic EQ sliders have no frequency labels
- P1 2265 - Track heights are reset to default on project re-opening
- P1 2303 - Playback does not start at the saved cursor position on reopening a saved project.
- P1 2314 - Zoom in fail when playing
Key P2 bugs fixed
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- P2 2062 - Export as WAV does not remember the previously used setting
- P2 2214 - Rendering a single track unnecessarily moves the track to project bottom
- P2 2218 - Rendering a single track unnecessarily strips it of its properties
- P2 2345 - 'Ignore blank space' Preference fails on Export Multiple based on 'Tracks'
- P2 2358 - Loop Quick-Play does not scroll when playing
- P2 2382 - Timer record: if a labels are present recording starts at last label position - not cursor position