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Audacity 4.0

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Audacity 4.0 introduces a redesigned interface built on Qt, along with numerous quality-of-life improvements such as enhanced clip editing, grouping, and more flexible track management. These updates aim to streamline audio editing workflows, making the software more intuitive and versatile for users. The release signifies a major step forward in making Audacity more powerful and user-friendly for both casual and professional audio editors.

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Audacity 4.0

Audacity 4 rebuilds the application interface on Qt and introduces many new quality-of-life improvements, including a new clip-editing model. Most Audacity 3 workflows remain available, but some controls have moved or changed.

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Editing clips

Clips can be selected directly. Click a clip header to select it, or Shift-click to select multiple clips.

Click a clip header to select it, or Shift-click to select multiple clips. Several clips can be edited together. Moving, trimming and time stretching apply to all selected clips.

Moving, trimming and time stretching apply to all selected clips. Clips can be grouped. Groups remain together when moved, copied, pasted or duplicated.

Groups remain together when moved, copied, pasted or duplicated. Clips can be placed more freely. They can move between mono and stereo tracks. Moving a clip over another replaces the overlapped part instead of blocking the move.

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