Install Audacity 2.3.0 on Ubuntu / Linux Mint (PPA)

Audacity is an open source, freely distributed, cross-platform and easy-to-use software project designed from the offset to act as an audio editor and recorder for personal computers running any GNU/Linux distribution or the Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems. Audacity is a very powerful software, it is used by many professional musicians who want a free software alternative for analyzing, editing and recording audio tracks.

Features at a glance
With Audacity, users can 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, as well as to change the speed or pitch of a recording. In addition, the software contains many plugins and effects, among which we can mention Echo, Paulstretch (extreme stretch), Phaser, Reverb, Reverse, Truncate Silence and Wahwah.

Whats New in Audacity 2.3.0:

• New feature – “Punch and Roll Recording”
• Pinned-play-head can now be repositioned by dragging
• Play-at-speed now can be adjusted whilst playing.
• Toolbars controlling volume and speed can now be resized for greater precision
• Macros (formerly ‘Chains’) substantially extended
• New Macro palette
• Macros can be bound to keyboard keys
• New commands
• New ‘Tools’ menu
• New ‘Scriptables’ commands
• Nyquist gains AUD-DO command
• Nyquist effects are now translatable and translated
• More dialogs have help buttons now
• Increased legibility of trackname display
• Half-wave option for collapsed tracks
• Sliding Stretch
• Dialog (option) for entering labels

Bug Fixes

• Windows: Queen Mary 1.7.1 Vamp plug-ins crash Audacity on opening Plug-in Manager – bug #1244
• Inconsistent behavior when recording with a selection defined – bug #1839
• Ctrl + M does not open label for editing – bug #1852
• Vertical Zoom in by clicking in the vertical Scale, or context menu, in waveform views is inconsistent – bug #1810
• Deletion of all tracks cannot be undone – bug #1845
• Timer Record with a selection present can get a truncated recording with data loss – bug #1851
• Duplicate shortcuts can be created – bug #1786
• Labels longer than 260 characters are now supported – bug #1905
• Using Spectrogram Settings in TCP or using Preferences causes Audacity to reset Project Rate to default rate in Quality Preferences – bug #1977
• Cut Preview should play all selected/sync-locked tracks, respecting Mute/Solo during preview – bug #231

How to Install Audacity 2.3.0 on Ubuntu / Linux Mint (PPA) :

Adding this PPA to your system
You can update your system with unsupported packages from this untrusted PPA by adding ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/audacity to your system's Software Sources. (Read about installing)

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/audacity

sudo apt-get update

       
Install audacity :

sudo apt-get install audacity

After installation is finished, check on ubuntu dashboard :