diff --git a/community/audacity/PKGBUILD b/community/audacity/PKGBUILD
index 1244b82de..8043b25c1 100644
--- a/community/audacity/PKGBUILD
+++ b/community/audacity/PKGBUILD
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-# $Id$
 # Maintainer: David Runge <dave@sleepmap.de>
 # Contributor: Eric Bélanger <eric@archlinux.org>
 
@@ -6,23 +5,27 @@
 #  - configure with --disable-sse
 
 pkgname=audacity
-pkgver=2.2.2
-pkgrel=3
+pkgver=2.3.0
+pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="A program that lets you manipulate digital audio waveforms"
 arch=('x86_64')
 url="https://audacityteam.org"
 license=('GPL2' 'CCPL')
 groups=('pro-audio')
-depends=('libmad' 'libid3tag' 'wxgtk3' 'soundtouch' 'ffmpeg' 'vamp-plugin-sdk'
-'portsmf' 'twolame' 'suil' 'lilv')
-makedepends=('cmake')
+# upstream enquired via mail about:
+# vendors/requires older version of portaudio
+# vendors/doesn't detect system version of portmidi
+depends=('libid3tag' 'libmad' 'libsoxr' 'lilv' 'portsmf' 'soundtouch' 'suil' 'twolame'
+'vamp-plugin-sdk' 'wxgtk3')
+makedepends=('cmake' 'ffmpeg')
+optdepends=('ffmpeg: additional import/export capabilities')
 source=("https://github.com/${pkgname}/${pkgname}/archive/Audacity-${pkgver}.tar.gz")
-sha512sums=('311a5f3413e7faf40dc5639b2b9f8b0d03d1a410c50d894ca7abf3fe5733a29b710ccf7e3215d97dd9142e93c0ab5e13955dfd13146b03f927f74465459a6457')
+sha512sums=('0b0daece8578fe3b14425f0fd29d984aee7d0c9ab65376b2f415abdac67690765e1601c8c7d7e5b732001f887234efd4b931942a278c454695ad17751ef3f8b7')
 
 prepare() {
   mv -v "${pkgname}-Audacity-${pkgver}" "${pkgname}-${pkgver}"
   cd "${pkgname}-${pkgver}"
-  autoreconf -vi
+  autoreconf -vfi
 }
 
 build() {
@@ -33,6 +36,8 @@ build() {
     --with-expat="system" \
     --with-lame="system" \
     --with-libsoxr="system" \
+    --with-portaudio \
+    --with-portmidi \
     --with-libflac \
     --with-libid3tag \
     --with-libsamplerate \
@@ -41,8 +46,6 @@ build() {
     --with-libtwolame \
     --with-libvorbis \
     --with-lv2 \
-    --with-portaudio \
-    --with-portmidi \
     --disable-sse
   make
 }