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When we made the menu changes for 2.2.0 we introduced an entry into the File menu called "Save Other" which led to a sub-menu for exporting various audio formats. | When we made the menu changes for 2.2.0 we introduced an entry into the File menu called "Save Other" which led to a sub-menu for exporting various audio formats. | ||
| − | Many users were confused by this change and found it hard to | + | Many users were confused by this change and found it hard to find where they could export audio from. So for 2.2.1 we have changed that menu entry to be {{menu|File > Export}}. |
:<span title="The revised File menu with the Export submenu">[[Image:File-Export Menu.png|link=]]</span> | :<span title="The revised File menu with the Export submenu">[[Image:File-Export Menu.png|link=]]</span> | ||
Revision as of 11:11, 22 November 2017
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N.B. The links to "the Manual" will not be entirely accurate, up to date, until 2.2.1 is released - as they are pointing at the released Manual which is currently 2.2.0 and therefore does not show these chanhes. |
- Details of all the major changes since 2.2.0 can be found in Release Notes 2.2.1.
- 2.2.1 is a very light release, basically a maintenance release, see below with one new exciting feature added. Plus we wanted to experiment with shorter release cycles.
Contents
Waveform colorways
You can optionally change the colorway of the waveforms displayed in your project. The setting is per track and not per project so you can have multiple colorways in the same project as in the image below.
Four colorways are available with the color selection made from the dropdown menu in the track's Track Control Panel.
When we made the menu changes for 2.2.0 we introduced an entry into the File menu called "Save Other" which led to a sub-menu for exporting various audio formats.
Many users were confused by this change and found it hard to find where they could export audio from. So for 2.2.1 we have changed that menu entry to be .
Bug Fixes
Release 2.2.1 is mainly a maintenance release as soon after the release of 2.2.0 we discovered some problematical bugs in Audacity:
- Bug #1767 - Opening a second project from Mac's Finder produces a second inaccessible instance of Audacity
- Bug #1770 - Crash applying certain chain files
- Bug #1783 - Preview fails when selection extends before zero
- Bug #1787 - Auto-scroll stopped working in 2.2.0
- Bug #1765 - Using to import audio gives wrong zoom level and no scroll bar slider
New features in Audacity 2.2.1 - appendix
This page New features in Audacity 2.2.1 - appendix gives an overview of further new functionality that has been introduced in this release of Audacity.
Links
> Audacity Release Notes 2.3.0 - detailed release notes for this release of Audacity
