This is the first major Audacity release since this open source project was acquired by Muse Group, the owner of MuseScore and the Ultimate Guitar website. After the uproar and controversy over the new owner’s plans to integrate an opt-in telemetry module into Audacity, Muse Group reversed its course and left everything intact – with the exclusion for new features and fixes, of course.
That’s exactly what ignited our interest for Audacity 3.1, the amazing, feature-rich and leading waveform editor for Linux. Despite all the rumours, there are no obvious privacy issues, and the software is still GPL-licenced. Most of the recent improvements are addressed to those who use multi-track projects in Audacity. And so we have new clip handles, smart clips and playback looping. Smart clips are especially great because they can be trimmed non-destructively by dragging the upper edge of a clip. Drag the edge back and the audio contents are revealed again!