On 9/22/21 14:41, Dick Steffens wrote: > Anybody using Audacity? I had to use a Win10 machine to do some > recording this morning. When I got home I went to copy the .aup file and > directory to my Xubuntu machine. What I found was there isn't a .aup > file and folder, but instead a .aup3 file. I went back to the Win10 > machine and tried to save as the old version, but that feature is not > available. > > From https://fileinfo.com/extension/aup3 it looks like this happened > back in March of this year. I have version 2.3.3. The Win10 machine has > version 3.0.4. Synaptic does not show version 3 on my Xubuntu machine. I > hesitate to download the Linux version of 3 without knowing what will > happen to my existing Audacity projects done with 2.3.3. >
According to the Audacity wiki, audacity-3.x will read and convert .aup to .aup3 without issues. Personally I never bothered with aup. I keep it all as either lossless FLAC or uncompressed PCM WAV. That way, portability is assured. I can easily enough convert to other formats with either audacity or a myriad other tools. Your Xubuntu may too old have an older wxGTK or other libraries in the repos that are not compatible with audacity-3.0.4. Compiling 3.x has become a bit of a hassle. -Ed
