Nightly Builds

Binaries for Windows 2000/XP/Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8

 * Frequent (but not necessarily nightly) alpha builds in "Release" configuration (.zip) are available from the latest SVN trunk.

The most recent nightly release build can be downloaded from the top of this page.

Instructions (zip): Extract the contents of the zip to a new folder and double-click audacity.exe from that new folder to launch it. It will not affect any other installed version of Audacity you may have.

Binaries for Mac OS X 10.4 or later

 * Every night at 03:15 (GMT) an alpha build in "Release" configuration is automatically made from the latest SVN trunk.
 * Every Sunday night at 04:15 (GMT) a weekly alpha build in "Debug" configuration is automatically made from the latest SVN trunk. These are slower builds that can be used to trace crashes and other problems.

Both builds are universal binaries. The most recent nightly release and weekly debug builds can be downloaded from the top of this page.

Linux / Unix
Daily PPA installation packages are available for recent and upcoming Ubuntu releases. Follow the instructions to add the PPA to Ubuntu and authenticate it before installing a package for the first time. If you decide you don't want Audacity to be updated daily, disable the PPA repository at, click then choose the  tab.

For other Linux/Unix distributions, you may checkout and compile our latest development code. We recommend reading Developing On Linux and our Compiling Audacity Step by Step Guide.

Feedback
Your feedback on how new features work and on the stability of the builds is invaluable to us. Please check Release Notes for known issues. Please report new issues found to our feedback address.

Build Automation
If at some future date we want to automate the building of Audacity on multiple platforms (using virtualisation), a server we could use is at OSUOSL. According to their FAQ, the required guest operating systems are Linux-based (plus there will be two OS X machines available for testing).