Audacity: Source Code Jump to page content Enter your search terms Submit search form   this site Wiki/Forum/Team site Web Site Navigation Home About Download Help Contact Us Get Involved Download Stable: 1.2 Windows Mac Linux/Unix Source Code Release Notes Beta: 1.3 New Features in 1.3 Windows Mac Linux/Unix Source Code Plug-Ins and Libraries Obtain a CD Vendors and Distributors of Audacity Advertisements Policy Source Code Beta version System Requirements   Download Audacity 1.3 Beta is our new, not quite finished, development version which will be the basis of our next "stable" version. Contains dozens of new, exciting features. Very occasionally, these might need final polishing or not be retained in later versions. Occasionally, a feature might not work as it did before, or might be temporarily disabled. Some parts of the program are not yet documented or translated into different languages. If you are new to Audacity or computer audio programs, you may prefer the fully finished Audacity 1.2. Otherwise, please help our development effort by trying the Beta and send us your comments . Please mention your operating system, full details of any problems, and any features that need improvement or no longer work properly. You can install 1.3 and 1.2 on the same machine by installing them to different directories. Recommended Download Audacity 1.3.9 release (source tarball) (.tar.bz2 file, 6.4 MB) This is our standard source tarball. It assumes your system has the necessary dependencies (libraries) installed (see below). Optional Downloads Audacity 1.3.9 release (source tarball) (.tar.bz2 file, 17.4 MB) This is a full source tarball, useful for Windows and Mac machines which may lack the necessary dependencies to compile Audacity. Latest CVS development code , incorporating changes since the release tarball. If you have trouble with your download, or need an older version of Audacity, try our alternate download links: Sourceforge (older versions can be viewed by clicking on the appropriate package) Google Code (click on the headings to sort the list) System Requirements Audacity runs best with at least 64 MB RAM and a 300 MHz processor. Please review our operating system support for Windows , Mac or Linux . How to Compile Audacity Dependencies The wxWidgets library is required . Audacity 1.3.9 requires wxGTK 2.8.10. Installation of the following libraries is optional - they are included in Audacity obtained from CVS . libmad libsndfile Ogg Vorbis If you install libraries using a package management system like Apt or RPM, you need to install the "dev" (development) packages for each library. Compilation To compile Audacity, run the following command in the Audacity source directory: ./configure && make You can type ./configure --help to see a list of compilation options. After Audacity is compiled, run make install as root to install it. Further Help On Windows, see the file "compile.txt" inside the "Win" folder in the source code. For OS X, see "compile.txt" inside the "Mac" folder in the code. See our guides to compiling Audacity for Windows , Mac and Linux/Unix on the Wiki . If you are still having difficulties, we want to help! Please join audacity-devel , our developers' mailing list, then send us an e-mail.   Page Footer Privacy | Copyright | Site Map View this page in a different language Afrikaans | ÄŒesky | Deutsch | Ελληνικά | English | Español | Basque | Français | Italiano | Magyar | Norsk (BokmÃ¥l) | Nederlands | Polski | Português | Română | Slovak | Slovenščina | Suomi | Svenska | Türkçe | 日本語 | Русский | 中文(简) | 中文(繁) -->