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Audacity 4.0 is finally out! (www.audacityteam.org)
submitted 2 days ago by popcar2@piefed.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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.

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[–] orenj@leminal.space 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Didnt audacity shit the bed in some spectacular fashion a while back? I could've sworn there was some reason i moved to tenacity and it wasnt just a foss boner

[–] Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

in april 2021, they were purchased by MuseScore;

a few weeks later, they announced that they would introduce Google Analytics and Yandex-based “telemetry”. After strong criticism by the community, Muse Group backtracked, emphasized their commitment to the GPL license, dropped their plans to include Google/Yandex tracking, and instead opted for a self-hosted solution for bug reports and update checks. Both can be disabled, and some distributions disable them by default.

that one was a nothingburger imo as it was always opt-in, was never merged, and planned to only be in testing builds

in july they proposed and then backtracked on a baffling new privacy policy and said they had really overzealous lawyers that they somehow mistrusted lawyers doing so “out of an abundance of caution”, which resolves the issue in my books—within two weeks, which is why i’m not absolving them, but it's been five years since 2021 and absolutely no nonsense has happened.

in fact, audacity has since gained a ton of productivity improvements, outlined in the video https://youtu.be/QYM3TWf_G38 that does have a conflict of interest

tl;dr: i still support audacity

receipts: https://github.com/audacity/audacity/discussions/889 , https://github.com/audacity/audacity/discussions/1353, and everything these link

[–] BilSabab@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

wasn't it during the previous regime and one of the causes of the takeover? Because I haven't heard of Audacity for quite a while

[–] yakko@feddit.uk 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Main reason I read posts like this is to learn what the cool kids are using instead. I edit audio like a few times a year so it helps to hear things like this

[–] trublu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I successfully use Ardour 9 for music production.

[–] yakko@feddit.uk 1 points 1 day ago

I'll have a look, thanks!