Audacity ® | Audacity 4
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Flagship tour of what's new in Audacity 4.

TL;DR this is a huge overhaul of the popular open-source audio editing app. The UI specifically has been the biggest overhaul, making it a lot more modern and friendly to use.

Hopefully, one day, GIMP will get some kind of update like this.

  • Rose@lemmy.zipEnglish
    6·
    3 hours ago

    GIMP already had a significant update not too long ago. There were UI improvements and things like effects for layers.

  • redshift@lemmy.zipEnglish
    252·
    6 hours ago

    I’ll stick with 3.x, since they started using AI in 4.0 - or use Tenacity, of course.

  • xSikes@feddit.onlineEnglish
    3·
    5 hours ago

    ……holy shit, this is massively different from the last time I used this. This would be bigger for those who have iPads for podcasts

  • BromSwolligans@lemmy.worldEnglish
    111·
    6 hours ago

    lol they’ve had the same basic interface since I was in high school 20 years ago. This is outstanding. Good for them. I almost never use Audacity anymore but I absolutely would use this if I had a reason to.

    • chunes@lemmy.worldEnglish
      81·
      3 hours ago

      I automatically assume their ‘ui update’ is bad based on their website alone.

    • Joelk111@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      9 hours ago

      I don’t like it on desktop but goddamn, it sucks even more on mobile. I was swiping to scroll through the stupid horizontal menu and then when I got to the bottom of it, turns out I was scrolling so fast I basically teleported to the bottom of the page.

    • HuudaHarkiten@piefed.socialEnglish
      14·
      10 hours ago

      Nope. Didnt even work for me lol. Scrolled down for a bit and nothing happened. Gave up on it. I guess I’ll have to read what people think about it, instead of checking it out :D

  • Lexam@lemmy.worldEnglish
    482·
    11 hours ago

    Is audacity still bad and sending information to Russian servers or something?

    • palordrolap@fedia.io
      32·
      10 hours ago

      Surprisingly, the Internet seems to look mostly favourably on Audacity these days. I never really kept up with it at the time, but apparently all the allegedly heinous (mis)features were opt-in. (Further verification of this may be required.)

      I can’t tell if that’s the result of a really good scrubbing of bad search results or whether they genuinely cleaned up their act.

      Either way, Tenacity, the fork that came about as a result of the controversy, still exists, and apparently has themes to change the look just like Audacity is claiming to have done now, so if you’re uncertain, that’s always an option.

      • MetaStatistical@lemmy.zipEnglish
        193·
        5 hours ago

        I got tired of Tenacity staying stagnant for months, and still having documentation link issues. Meanwhile, Audacity was actually making meaningful improvements.

        After diving deeper in the nontroversy, and seeing their in-depth video explaining their design decisions, I concluded that they genuinely want to improve the software and aren’t trying to fuck over the OSS community. So, I switched back when I dumped Windows and switched to Linux.

        There’s an extreme black and white view of these kinds of issues that crop up in the community that just pisses me off, and shoddy tech reporting doesn’t help matters. This wasn’t a “Oracle buys MySQL” situation, and the response didn’t deserve a fork. But, hey, it’s free software, and people can fork whatever they want.

        • Rose@lemmy.zipEnglish
          15·
          3 hours ago

          It wasn’t about “shoddy tech reporting”. Why would a FOSS audio editing app need to know your country, any personal “Data necessary for law enforcement, litigation and authorities’ requests (if any)”, share it with a wide network of people and potential buyers, as well as their “main office in Russia”? There should be no telemetry of any sort. Any logs kept should be strictly local, which would allow users to send them to the support team voluntarily.

    • popcar2@piefed.caOPEnglish
      29·
      11 hours ago

      When you start the app for the first time it asks if you want to enable anonymous telemetry, but otherwise I don’t think it sends anything.

  • nyan@lemmy.cafeEnglish
    6·
    7 hours ago

    [Hits “Zap style sheets” bookmarklet to make it possible to get at least a minimal amount of information out of the page]

    Ugh, they still actually think the cloud shite is a feature.

  • _NetNomad@fedia.io
    8·
    10 hours ago

    Looks like they took some cues from Dark Audacity. A dark theme is nice, but when Audacity first started adding telemetry shit I took Dark Audacity for a spin and hated more or less every UI “improvement.” Lots of extra menu diving to access important, heavily used features DA decided was “clutter.” Tenacity has some bugs but it’s served me very well since otherwise