De final release van versie 2.0.6 van de opensource-audio-editor Audacity is uitgekomen. Het programma, dat beschikbaar is voor Windows, Linux en OS X, kan geluid opnemen, en wav-, aiff-, ogg- en mp3-bestanden importeren en exporteren. Het heeft een ongelimiteerde undo-functie en heeft daarnaast een grote verzameling effecten aan boord, zoals fade-in en fade-out, echo, tempowijziging en ruisonderdrukking. Meer effecten kunnen eenvoudig worden toegevoegd, want het programma ondersteunt zowel vst- als ladspa-plug-ins. Sinds versie 2.0.5 zijn de volgende veranderingen en verbeteringen doorgevoerd:
Improvements
Interface:
- Import or export using FFmpeg now requires FFmpeg 1.2 or later (or libav 0.8 or later). For recommended downloads of recent FFmpeg please visit this page.
- New Tamil translation (largely complete).
- (Windows) FLAC exports can now exceed 2 GB in size.
- (OS X) Easier Audacity installation using the DMG: drag the Audacity folder to the /Applications shortcut.
- (Linux) Self-compiled builds of Audacity now search for system LADSPA effects in /usr/lib/ladspa.
Effects:
- Redesigned, searchable Keyboard Preferences with Tree, Name and Key views.
- Edit Menu: "Cut" and "Delete" are now in the top level of the menu.
- Transport Menu now includes "Play/Stop" and "Play/Stop and Set Cursor" (use Keyboard Preferences to create shortcuts for "Play" and "Stop").
- Tracks Menu now includes "Mix and Render to New Track".
- Track Drop-Down Menu now has Move Track To Top and Move Track To Bottom.
- New right-click menu choice "Delete Label" to remove single labels.
- "Snap To" now offers choice of snap to the "closest" or "prior" position. Note: the previous "Snap To On" keyboard shortcut will no longer work.
- "Snap To" settings are now independent for each project.
- Truncate Silence: redesigned with simpler option "Truncate Detected Silence" to shorten to the specified length without compressing silence.
- VST effects: New "Settings" dialog lets you specify buffer size (for faster processing) and enable buffer delay compensation (to prevent inserted silence). Compensation may cause a crash in a few plug-ins.
- VST effects now support standard FXP presets.
- LV2 effects are now supported on all platforms (textual interface only).
Bug Fixes
Interface:
- Click or drag on the Timeline after Loop Play continued to loop.
- Transcription Toolbar did not play slower than 0.1x speed.
- (Linux) Audacity did not build if python 2 was not available.
Effects:
- Region Restore did not restore the region after using Preferences.
- Dragging selections with the keyboard or Selection Toolbar digits was very slow.
- (Windows) Help > About Audacity crashed when run in Magyar language.
- (OS X) Some full and reduced Menu Bar items were not translated.
- (OS X and Linux) Fixed various interface crashes.
- Reverb and Paulstretch were missing from Chains.
- Analyze > Contrast could report very inaccurate rms levels.
- Noise Removal: Attack and decay times were half as long as set.
- (OS X and Linux) Nyquist effects ran much more slowly than on Windows.