Software-update: Audacity 1.2.4 / 1.3.0

Audacity is een open source-audio editor en beschikbaar op verschillende platformen zoals Linux, Mac OS X en Windows. Het programma kan geluid opnemen via een externe ingang, wav-, aiff-, ogg- en mp3-bestanden importeren en exporteren en bevat een ongelimiteerde undo-functie. Daarnaast heeft het een hoop effecten aan boord, zoals fade-in en out, echo, tempo veranderen en Noise Removal. Meer effecten kunnen eenvoudig worden toegevoegt, want het programma ondersteund zowel VST als LADSPA plug-ins. De ontwikkelaars hebben versie 1.2.4 in de stable-tak en versie 1.3.0 in de unstable-tak de deur uitgedaan met de volgende aankondiging:

Audacity 1.2.4 is a new stable version of Audacity. It includes a couple of bug fixes and minor improvements and is recommended for all users. Audacity 1.3.0 is a beta release that contains hundreds of new features, but this version is unfinished and unstable, and is recommended primarily for advanced users. You can install both Audacity 1.2 and 1.3 simultaneously.

Version 1.2.4:

• The File menu now includes a list of recent files.
• The "Generate Silence" effect now prompts for a length.
• Audacity is now built with Vorbis 1.1, which features better encoding quality and file compression.
• Dragging sound files into the Audacity window now works on Mac OS X and Linux, as well as Windows. (Before, it worked only on Windows.)
• Better support for certain audio devices on Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger"
• The "View History" window can now discard old undo levels to save disk space on Windows. (This previously worked only on Linux and Mac.)
• "Preferences" command is now in Edit menu.
• "Plot Spectrum" command is now in Analyze menu.
• Opening a project file saved by a later version of Audacity displays an intelligent error message. Also, trying to import a project file (instead of open it) displays an intelligent error message.
• Audacity now compiles in Visual C++ .NET 2003.
• Other minor bug fixes.
• New or updated translations: Arabic (ar), Czech (cs), Finnish (fi), Hungarian (hu), Japanese (ja), Norwegian (nb), Slovenian (sl), Simplified Chinese (zh_CN), Traditional Chinese (zh_TW).

[break]De volgende downloads staan klaar:
Audacity 1.2.4 - Mac OS X
Audacity 1.2.4 - Windows
Audacity 1.2.4 - Source
Audacity 1.3.0 - Mac OS X
Audacity 1.3.0 - Windows
Audacity 1.3.0 - Source