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Audacity 3.4 Release Adds a New Musical View
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Audacity 3.4 makes it a better audio editor for musicians. Take a look!
Many consider Audacity as a useful audio editor or maybe even a digital audio workstation (DAW) to some extent.

In the past, we have noticed that with every point release, take, for example, [Audacity 3.2][1] there are important improvements on offer.

Continuing the trend is the recently introduced **Audacity 3.4** release, here with some new features and bug fixes.

Let's go through them.

**Suggested Read** 📖

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## 🆕 Audacity 3.4: What's New?

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As a point release, this release has some important new features to offer, such as:

  * **New Musical View**
  * **Better Exporting**
  * **New Time Stretching Feature**



### New Musical View

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A new “ **Beats and measures grid** ” musical view has been added to Audacity that allows you to **easily align audio clips according to the tempo and rhythm of a project**.

The grid shows subdivisions of each measure according to the zoom level, and the clips can also be snapped to the nearest beat.

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You can access this by right-clicking anywhere on the ruler and selecting “Beats and Measures”.

### Better Exporting

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The exporter has been revamped, and now gives you **all the options in a single window** , that includes **a native file browser** , **format selection** , **audio options** and even **advanced options for 5.1 surround exports**.

### Time Stretching Feature

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It is now possible to **change the duration of audio clips without harming the pitch** of it.

This was thanks to the implementation of a **new time stretching algorithm** that has been tailored for music. The developers claim that it **outperforms many commercially available options**.

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Just hold the 'Alt' (for macOS: Option) button while hovering over the top third of a clip edge to start stretching.

### 🛠️ Other Changes

Other than that, here are some other notable changes:

  * In-built **support for[ **Opus**][7]**.
  * The **project sample rate doesn't change** randomly when importing audio.
  * The **spectrogram colors have been improved** to look more uniform.
  * **Stereo tracks have been simplified** , the left and right channels will now always have synced clip starts and ends, with the same sample rate on both channels.



You can also go through the [official blog][8] or the video linked below to know more about this release.

## 📥 Download Audacity 3.4

As Audacity is **a cross-platform app** , this new release is available for **Linux** , **Windows** , and **macOS** from the [official site][9] and its [GitHub repo][10].

[Audacity][9]

_💬 Will you be trying this release out? Share your thoughts in the comments below._

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[1]: https://news.itsfoss.com/audacity-3-2-release/
[2]: https://news.itsfoss.com/content/images/size/w256h256/2022/08/android-chrome-192x192.png
[3]: https://news.itsfoss.com/content/images/2023/11/Audacity_3.4.png
[4]: https://news.itsfoss.com/content/images/2023/11/Audacity_3.4_c.png
[5]: https://news.itsfoss.com/content/images/2023/11/Audacity_3.4_b.png
[6]: https://news.itsfoss.com/content/images/2023/11/Audacity_3.4_d.png
[7]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opus_(audio_format)
[8]: https://www.audacityteam.org/blog/audacity-3-4/
[9]: https://www.audacityteam.org/download/
[10]: https://github.com/audacity/audacity/releases