Security News > 2021 > March > Audacity 3.0 released with new AUP3 file format, speed improvements
Audacity 3.0 has been released with a new AUP3 file format that makes it harder for projects to become damaged and to increase performance while editing audio.
In the past, when saving an Audacity project, the program would create a.aup file and an associated subfolder containing multiple other files related to the project.
With today's release of Audacity 3.0, a new AUP3 file format was introduced that stores everything needed to properly open a project into a single file, as shown below.
This new format is an SQLite 3 database that Audacity says should make editing audio a little faster.
When opening the older Audacity project in the 3.0 release, the projects will be updated to the new AUP3 file format.
In addition to the new project file format, Audacity 3.0 adds an improved 'Noise Gate' effect, a new 'Label Sounds' analyzer, and fixes over 160 bugs that have been plaguing the software for some time.