audacity-win-2.3.0

Audacity(R): free, open source, cross-platform audio software for multi-track recording and editing: https://www.audacityteam.org/ . User support is provided on Audacity Forum: https://forum.audacityteam.org/ . We welcome feedback on Audacity, suggestions for new or improved features, and bug reports. Please visit https://forum.audacityteam.org/viewforum.php?f=25 . Audacity is copyright (c) 1999-2018 by Audacity Team. This copyright notice applies to all documents in the Audacity source code archive, except as otherwise noted (mostly in the lib-src subdirectories). "Audacity" is a registered trademark of Dominic Mazzoni. The Audacity documentation is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode . Compilation instructions for Audacity are provided in the source code: * Windows: win\build.txt * macOS: mac/build.txt * GNU/Linux: linux/build.txt You can ask for help with compilation problems at: https://forum.audacityteam.org/viewforum.php?f=19 . If you want to suggest some simple text change in our code, please submit a pull request on https://github.com/audacity/audacity/pulls . It's usually best to discuss functional code changes with us first on audacity-devel: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/audacity-devel . Version 2.3.0 Contents of this README: 1. Licensing 2. Changes since version 2.2.2 3. Known Issues at Release 4. Source Code, Libraries and Additional Copyright Information -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Licensing This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. The program source code is also freely available as per Section 4 of this README. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program (in a file called LICENSE.txt); if not, go to https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html or write to Free Software Foundation, Inc. 59 Temple Place - Suite 330 Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Changes since version 2.2.2: Improvements * New feature - "Punch and Roll Recording". * Pinned-play-head can now be repositioned by dragging * Play-at-Speed now can be adjusted whilst playing. * Toolbars controlling volume and speed can now be resized for greater precision * Macros (formerly 'Chains') substantially extended * New Macro palette * Macros can be bound to keyboard keys * New commands * New 'Tools' menu * New 'Scriptables' commands * Nyquist gains AUD-DO command * Nyquist effects are now translatable and translated * More dialogs have help buttons now * Increased legibility of trackname display * Half-wave option for collapsed tracks * Sliding Stretch * Dialog (option) for entering labels See also: https://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/New_features_in_Audacity_2.3.0 Bug Fixes Over 90 bugs in 2.2.2 fixed, including: * Windows: Queen Mary 1.7.1 Vamp plug-ins crash Audacity on opening Plug-in Manager - bug #1244 * Inconsistent behavior when recording with a selection defined - bug #1839 * Ctrl + M does not open label for editing - bug #1852 * Vertical Zoom in by clicking in the vertical Scale, or context menu, in waveform views is inconsistent - bug #1810 * Deletion of all tracks cannot be undone - bug #1845 * Timer Record with a selection present can get a truncated recording with data loss - bug #1851 * Duplicate shortcuts can be created - bug #1786 * Labels longer than 260 characters are now supported - bug #1905 * Using Spectrogram Settings in TCP or using Preferences causes Audacity to reset Project Rate to default rate in Quality Preferences - bug #1977 * Cut Preview should play all selected/sync-locked tracks, respecting Mute/Solo during preview - bug #231 See also: https://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Release_Notes_2.3.0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. Known Issues in 2.3.0: For known issues in 2.3.0 please see: https://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Release_Notes_2.3.0/Issues ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Source Code, Libraries and Additional Copyright Information Source code to this program is always available; for more information visit our web site at: https://www.audacityteam.org/download/source Audacity is built upon other free libraries; some of these libraries may have come with Audacity in the lib-src directory. Others you are expected to install first if you want Audacity to have certain capabilities. Most of these libraries are not distributed under the terms of the GPL, but rather some other free, GPL-compatible license. Specifically: expat: BSD-like license. Provides XML parsing. Included with Audacity. FFmpeg: GPL or LGPL (according to how you obtain/configure it) Provides decoding/encoding of additional formats. Optional separate download. libid3tag: GPL Reads/writes ID3 tags in MP3 files. Optional separate download as part of libmad. libflac: Xiph.Org BSD-like licence (the parts we use) Decodes and Encodes Free Lossless Audio Codec files. Optional separate download. libmad: GPL Decodes MP3 files. Optional separate download. libnyquist: BSD-like license. Functional language for manipulating audio; available within Audacity for effects processing. libogg: BSD-like license. Optional separate download, along with libvorbis. libsndfile: LGPL Reads and writes uncompressed PCM audio files. Included with Audacity. libsoxr: LGPL The SoX Resampler library performs one-dimensional sample-rate conversion. libvamp: new-style BSD Plug-in interface and support library for audio analysis plug-ins. Included with Audacity. libvorbis: BSD-like license. Decodes and encodes Ogg Vorbis files. Optional separate download. lv2: a merging of the lilv (ISC license), lv2 (LGPL), msinttypes, serd (ISC), sord, sratom, and suil libraries to support LV2 plug-ins. portsmf: BSD-like license. library for reading and writing midi files. Included with Audacity sbsms: GPL v2 Pitch and tempo changing library. Included in Audacity SoundTouch: LGPL Changes tempo without changing pitch and vice versa. Included in audacity Twolame: LGPL Encodes MPEG I layer 2 audio (used in DVDs and Radio). Optional separate download. wxWidgets: wxWindows license (based on LGPL) Cross-platform GUI library - must be downloaded and compiled separately. For more information, see the documentation inside each library's source code directory. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Additional copyright information: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nyquist Copyright (c) 2000-2002, by Roger B. Dannenberg All rights reserved. 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