Audacity 4 Alpha 2

The purpose of this alpha build is to test the core features of Audacity 4 on a wide selection of hardware and operating systems.

Alpha 2 contains further work to bring Audacity 4 to feature parity with Audacity 3, as well as important bug fixes.

If you experience severe issues or crashes, please file an issue on GitHub (requires a free GitHub account).

• GitHub issues
• Audacity forum
• Audacity Discord

A note on compatibility ⚠️

Projects saved in Audacity 4 are not backwards compatible. We recommend you make a copy of your important projects before opening them in Audacity 4.

What's implemented

• Recording and playback
• Editing audio
• Applying destructive and real-time effects
• Exporting audio files
• Saving and recalling custom Workspaces

What's not implemented

Some yet-to-be finalized features might appear non-functional, or have been excluded from Audacity's interface. These are features not yet ready for user testing, and have been disabled.

• Nyquist, LADSPA and VAMP and the OpenVINO plugins
• Preferences from Audacity 3 are not carried over
• Envelopes and label tracks
• Spectrogram view and the spectral editing mode
• Most built-in effects, including generators and analyzers
• Opening multiple projects at the same time

Notable changes since alpha-1

• Allow track range selection using Shift-Enter (#9600)
• Record from anywhere (#9540)
• Export loop region (#9489)
• Preference for paste behavior (#9612)
• Preference for whether clicking on ruler should trigger playback (#9707)
• Create loop region only when Control / Cmd key is pressed (#9712)
• Smoother playhead (#9613)

Share your experience!

If you encounter issues, please reach us at the following channels:

• Audacity Forum
• Audacity Discord
• GitHub issues