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# Audacity 3.4 Release Adds a New Musical View
- URL: https://itsfoss.com/news/audacity-3-4-release/
- Published: 2023-11-03T10:43:13.000Z
- Updated: 2023-11-03T10:43:13.000Z
- Description: Audacity 3.4 makes it a better audio editor for musicians. Take a look!
- Author: Sourav Rudra
- Tags: Application Releases, News, #Import 2025-11-08 21:15

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](https://itsfoss.com/audacity-3-2-release/) 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.

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## 🆕 Audacity 3.4: What's New?

![a screenshot of audacity 3.4](https://itsfoss.com/content/images/2023/11/Audacity_3.4.png)

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

![a screenshot of audacity 3.4 beats and measures grid feature](https://itsfoss.com/content/images/2023/11/Audacity_3.4_c.png)

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.

📋

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

### Better Exporting

![a screenshot of audacity 3.4 new exporting window](https://itsfoss.com/content/images/2023/11/Audacity_3.4_b.png)

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

![a screenshot of audacity 3.4 time stretching feature](https://itsfoss.com/content/images/2023/11/Audacity_3.4_d.png)

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**.

📋

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**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opus%5F%28audio%5Fformat%29?ref=itsfoss.com).
- 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](https://www.audacityteam.org/blog/audacity-3-4/?ref=itsfoss.com) 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](https://www.audacityteam.org/download/?ref=itsfoss.com) and its [GitHub repo](https://github.com/audacity/audacity/releases?ref=news.itsfoss.com).

[Audacity](https://www.audacityteam.org/download/?ref=itsfoss.com)

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