Audacity 3.6.2 has now been unveiled as the most recent stable version of this open-source, free digital audio editor and recorder program available across various platforms. It addresses numerous issues identified in the Audacity 3.6 iteration.
This update, known as Audacity 3.6.2, is the second minor update to the Audacity 3.6 series. It introduces a “Legacy” effects category that includes the traditional Limiter, Compressor, and Classic Filters, consolidates the time track range into a single dialogue box, and reverts back to the previous method of altering selections when importing audio clips.
This release primarily focuses on resolving flaws, including the disappearance of the pitch indicator on Linux when reaching double digits, a missing baseline, software freezing after an undo action, envelope visuals for offset clips not starting at zero, and the malfunctioning user interface of the track header when adjusting channels within a stereo track.
Additional improvements include fixing an error where pasting could rename clips, an issue preventing clips from being copied into the clipboard when cut, a problem causing Audacity to display a plain white screen on certain computers, troubles with LV2 plugin detection on macOS and Windows, and difficulties associated with splitting stereo tracks into mono.
On top of that, Audacity 3.6.2 fixes Labeled Audio operations, an issue where Cloud projects sometimes won’t open, a bug causing tracks with master effects sometimes only export silence, a crash after recording long sessions, a crash when failing to load a cloud project, and importing of multi-channel OGG and Wavpack files.
Last but not least, this release addresses an issue where the “editing clips can move other clips” preference would desynchronize multiple tracks and a bug causing Audacity maxing out the CPU when minimized. Check out the release notes on the project’s GitHub page for more details on these changes.
Audacity 3.6.2 is available for download from the official website as a universal AppImage binary that lets you run the application on virtually any GNU/Linux distribution without installing anything. Of course, you can also install Audacity from Flathub as a Flatpak app or from your distro’s software repositories.
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