Audacity Portable 1.3.12 Rev 2 has been released. Audacity Portable the popular Audacity audio editor packaged as a portable app, so you can take your audio files along with everything you need to edit and record on the go. This release solves an issue with language switching. Existing settings from Audacity Portable 1.2.x will be ignored. It's packaged in PortableApps.com Format so it can easily integrate with the PortableApps.com Suite. And it's open source and completely free.
Features
Audacity is an easy-to-use audio editor and recorder. You can use it to:
- Record live audio.
- Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs.
- Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, and WAV sound files.
- Cut, copy, splice, and mix sounds together.
- Change the speed or pitch of a recording.
- And more! See the complete list of features.
New In This Release
This release solves an issue with language switching.
PortableApps.com Installer / PortableApps.com Format
Audacity Portable is packaged in a PortableApps.com Installer so it will automatically detect an existing PortableApps.com installation when your drive is plugged in. And it's in PortableApps.com Format, so it automatically works with the PortableApps.com Suite including the Menu and Backup Utility.
Download
Audacity Portable is available for immediate download from the Audacity Portable homepage. Get it today!
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"PortableApps.com Launcher" and lame_enc.dll
The internal name or whatever for this app is "PortableApps.com Launcher" rather than Audacity, or Audacity Portable. I see this in Windows 7; I just associated my "local" Audacity Portable (that isn't used as portable, but rather perpetual, surviving reformats of the C drive) and the "Open" drop list on the Windows 7 title bar gives me Winamp Portable (from here), Mp3Tag Portable (from here), Windows Media Player, Windows Media Center... and "PortableApps.com Launcher" which has the Audacity logo.
Not a deal breaker, but might wanna fix that.
OTOH, it keeps forgetting that it has lame_enc.dll and where it is. The problem with this is that it wants to look in the folder that had the last file opened, which is not the Audacity Portable folder.
Maybe we can have a dedicated folder in Data for the lame_enc.dll that we can have it look every time? Because this bug is a deal-breaker, gonna have to go back to the last one until it's fixed.
lame_enc.dll - always been that way
AFAICT, lame_enc.dll has always been that way. I'm still on the old version of Audacity (1.2, IIRC; I can't check right now) and it has the same problem.
No it hasn't
No, it hasn't. Once I told Audacity Portable 1.3.11 where lame_enc.dll was, it never asked me again.
I dropped PortableApps.com's Audacity Portable 1.2 once I found the 1.3 series was already portable from Audacity themselves, and I just used the "just works" zip file extracted, until 1.3.11 came out here, at which point I updated. It was still good.
To get real specific... again, I started with 1.2 from here. Then when I downloaded 1.3 (.7 or .9 I think) I unpacked it to the 1.2 directory for the Audacity app. Then I updated THAT to 1.3.11. And it worked good. Then I updated all that to 1.3.12 Rev 2 and THAT broke it.
I don't use Audacity as much as I use VLC (the latest version of which also has a deal-breaking bug) so it's not as big a deal to me, but sometime I use it, it's gonna be, and I'm gonna end up going back.
But hey, I'm from the old, old school... when you updated a program, it worked better, or you got new features. Now it's mostly bugfixes (but, you get more updates, more frequently). It's cool to get new features, but it's OK when you don't notice any changes in the new version, you assume it's better somewhere. But when it gets worse... that's kinda bogus. Just saying. I mean, I know it's free, and I appreciate all the work and whatnot, but as long as the last version is just as free... I'm cool with that.
thank you man
thank you man
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It has a dedicated folder: X:\PortableApps\AudacityPortable\App\LAME
I have lame_enc.dll there and never had problems with it. The LAME readme says it will be picked up automatically and thats what it did.
There are default folders...
There are default folders for these files.
See here: https://portableapps.com/support/audacity_portable#lame
So long as you put your libraries in these folders, it will automatically find them. John has it coded into the launcher.ini file.
The problem is that these folders really belong as subfolders of the Data directory.
When you upgrade Audacity, it completely replaces the App folder, which wipes out these default folders. I just installed the latest, and I can confirm that it wiped out the LAME and FFMpeg libraries in the default locations.
If these folders were instead located in the Data directory, they would be preserved during update.
This would be fairly simple for the developer to fix, by changing the paths in the launcher.ini.
right
they shouldn't be deleted. I hope john adds these folders to the "not to be deleted-list" for the next version.
thanks man
thanks man