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Audacity 1.0 and 1.1 out...

This has been around quite long (June 5th), but no one here noticed it yet:

Audacity Homepage
Version 1 for Windows Download
Version 1.1 Download

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The Audacity Development Team is happy to announce the simultaneous release of versions 1.0.0 and 1.1.0. 

Version 1.0.0 is the final, stable version of the original Audacity. It is a good, simple audio editor suitable for recording, mixing, and editing ordinary tracks of CD-quality audio, on many platforms including Windows, Mac OS, and Linux. 

Version 1.1.0 is the first beta release of the next version of Audacity, which includes support for higher-quality audio, more audio file formats, more effects, more editing functions, an improved user interface, and support for foreign languages. Though this version has many new and useful features, some of these features are still under development and they have not been tested as much, and there may have problems. 

It is possible to have both versions of Audacity on your computer at the same time. 
"To understand me, you'll have to swallow a world." Or maybe your words.

Audacity 1.0 and 1.1 out...

Reply #1 –
From Readme.txt:

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New features in Audacity 1.1.0:

  * Core audio processing:
    - Support for 24-bit and 32-bit sample formats
    - Automatic real-time resampling (using linear
        interpolation)
  * Effects:
    - Support LADSPA plugins on Linux / Unix
  * File formats:
    - New XML-based Audacity project format
    - Full Ogg Vorbis support now (importing and exporting)
    - Export to any command-line programs on Unix
    - Support for reading and writing many more types of
        uncompressed audio files, including ADPCM WAV files.
  * Toolbars
    - New toolbar drawing code; automatically adopts your
        operating system's colors
    - New toolbar buttons (Skip to Start, Skip to End)
    - New Edit toolbar
    - Toolbar buttons disable when they're not available
  * User Interface
    - Fully customizable keyboard commands
    - Autoscroll while playing or recording
    - New Ruler, used in main view and in
        FFT Filter effect
    - The waveform now displays the average value in a lighter
        color inside the peak values
  * Localization
    - Audacity can now be localized to different foreign
      languages.

New libraries in Audacity 1.1:

  * libmad for fast MP3 importing
  * libid3tag for editing MP3 file information
  * libsndfile to read and write more audio file formats
  * PortAudio for cross-platform audio playing and recording

Audacity 1.0 and 1.1 out...

Reply #2 –
i am not familiar with this program.  before i download and install it, i am curious if it can edit .mp3's without converting them to .wav files & then have to be converted back.  if not, can anyone recommend a quality program that allows me to do this with lame vbr files & does not impair the original .mp3 in any way.

thanks much,  dave
 

Audacity 1.0 and 1.1 out...

Reply #3 –
All programs will have to convert back to .wav to modify it (at least the part you are modifying).

Splitting, and joining can be done without re-encoding, but that's because your not modifying the actual audio, just joining it to other (unmodified) audio.