The developers in charge of the Audacity project, recently they made known by means of a note on your blog, the release of the new version of Audacity 2.3.2, version that lHe is able to fix just over 20 errors around its previous version (Audacity 2.3.1).
In addition to the bugs fixed, in this new version a handful of improvements are added in which the inclusion of the LAME encoder stands out.
About Audacity
For those unfamiliar with Audacity, you should know that this is one of the programs most emblematic of Free Software, with which we can perform audio recording and editing digitally from our computer. This application is cross-platform so it can be used on Windows, MacOS, Linux and more.
Audacity in addition to allowing us to record multiple audio sources it can also allow us to post-processing all kinds of audio, including podcasts, by adding effects like normalization, cropping, and fading in and out.
Among the features of Audacity include:
- Audio recording in real time.
- Editing Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WAV, AIFF, AU, LOF and WMP audio files.
- Conversion between audio type formats.
- Import of MIDI, RAW and MP3 format files.
- Multi-track editing.
- Add effects to the sound (echo, inversion, tone, etc).
- Possibility of using plug-ins to increase its functionality.
What's new in Audacity 2.3.2?
As we mentioned at the beginning in this new version of Audacity LAME mp3 encoder added. Since previously, due to patents (now expired), the user had to download it separately.
Another novelty of this new version is the "Audacity mod-script-pipe" with which the user can manage Audacity from Python, with which only the user must enable this function through the preferences.
Of the other news of this new version:
- The type for creating a label is now off by default.
- A plugin installer for Nyquist now provides a file explorer to select the '.NY' files to install.
How to install Audacity 2.3.2 on Ubuntu and derivatives?
If you are interested in being able to install this new version of the application on your systems, you can do so by following the instructions that we share below.
In order to install or update to this new version, all they have to do is open a terminal and in it they will type the following commands:
The first thing we are going to do is add the following repository to the system:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/audacity -y
After that we are going to execute the following command to update the packages and list of repositories:
sudo apt-get update
Finally we are going to install the application with:
sudo apt install audacity
Install Audacity from Flatpak
The last method with which we can install this audio player in our beloved Ubuntu or one of its derivatives is with the help of Flatpak packages.
For this We must have Flatpak support to be able to install by this method.
Once you are sure you have Flatpak support, just type the following command in a terminal:
flatpak install --from https://flathub.org/repo/appstream/org.audacityteam.Audacity.flatpakref
Additionally, if you are using Ubuntu and not a derivative, that is, you have Gnome Shell as a desktop environment, you can directly install the application from the software center of this-
Finally, you can open this audio player on your system by searching for its launcher in your application menu.
In case of not finding the launcher, you can run the application with the following command:
flatpak run org.audacityteam.Audacity
If you already had the player installed by this means and you want to check if there is an update to it, you can do it by typing the following command in a terminal:
flatpak --user update org.audacityteam.Audacity
How to uninstall Audacity?
Finally, if you want to remove this application from your system, you can do it quite simply.
If you installed from repository, in a terminal you will type the following:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/audacity -r sudo apt-get remove audacity sudo apt-get remove --purge audacity