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Audacity 4.0

Audacity 4.0

ClydeN

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  • Lautzi
    I highly recommend this video [1] by the Head of Software at Muse who had a big part in the development of Audacity 4.0. Some great insights and really fun to watch![1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYM3TWf_G38
  • azatom
    After I change from "Program Files" to a user's folder it brings up the UAC.Why? The "files association still needs it" is not an answer. It is plain unnecessary risk, does not matter that the original author is trusted, still can be hacked.
  • dbcooper
    Release video looking at the new UI (Qt6 based):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTQymidLYIM
  • pelagicAustral
    Whatever happened with the post-telemetry fork debacle projects? Tenacity, Sneedacity, or something...
  • 2b3a51
    Downloaded the AppImage, chmod +x and ran it from my user space on Debian Trixie under Gnome. I went for light, colourful and modern UI, skipped the login/cloud invite, disabled the telemetry and started it up.Quite chatty when running it from the terminal, but seems to be working well on my Thinkpad X250 landfill laptop. Looks 'flat' and all in the modern style, but adapts to the 1366x768 letterbox that is my screen nicely.
  • ancientstraits
    I have been using Audacity 3 for making music with samples for a few years. And it sort of worked, but there were a lot of things that were inconvenient, like the project sometimes not saving, or getting a "clicking" noise across clips that I had to remove by manually fading in/out each end of the clip.I tried the Audacity 4 beta a while ago, and it seemed super clean and like it fixed a lot of stuff. I am pretty concerned about the encroaching audio.com things (even though they are completely optional), but I still think this Audacity version has promise. I especially like how you can drag clips to time-stretch them.
  • Sophira
    How's the telemetry situation nowadays? I haven't been updating my copy for a while.
  • Gravityloss
    For some reason, almost all audio apps have very odd scroll and zooming behaviour (and home/end keys also do weird things). Also doing basic things like starting playback or recording from start or from cursor tends to be quite complex in many of them. It would be interesting to know why that is so. Maybe it is so that you don't accidentally trigger it? If you're just doing editing and never recording, you never want to trigger recording with r, only with some complex modifier combo. But if you're a musician, that's about all you do, hit record and stop and playback and stop.
  • elevation
    Is the team funded off audacity merch sales? What's the most effective way for me to support the continuity of their work?
  • AbuAssar
    in the age of 500MB apps (thanks to electron); it is refreshing to see a sub-50MB app again.
  • monegator
    As always, abandoning GTK (or libadwaita. ew.) for Qt is a welcome change. Good for them.
  • oidar
    >> The following Audacity 3 features are not available in Audacity 4.0, but we're working on adding them in future releases.Time Tracks Note/MIDI tracks Mixer Macro Manager and the scripting pipe VAMP and LADSPA plugin hosting Play-at-speed Sync-Lock and the old tool modes were replaced by the workflows described above.>>Additionally, Audacity 4 ships with some missing exporting and rendering features, analyzers, and effects.
  • jcmontx
    I remember using this software when I was 13 y.o. (I'm 31 now). I would turn songs I liked backwards to try to find satanic messages. Good memories haha.
  • a1o
    Looks great. I remember a company sort of bought it but afaict they didn’t monetize it. I don’t remember the strategy, or why it was acquired, does anyone recall it?
  • moondowner
    Wow, the UX has come a long way, can't wait to try it.What is MuseHub and how is Audacity related to it?
  • engfan
    The video on their audio editor would have been much more interesting and widely useful if they instead showed how they made their beautiful video. There is much more combined video and audio editing going on than audio-editing alone and doing this well is difficult and time-consuming.
  • ch_fr
    I have used old audacity and musescore-owned audacity, and I have to say it's a massive glow-up.I use REAPER for most things, but audacity has found a nice little niche when it comes to recording voice clips because it just does it with less hassle.It's in good hands.
  • wconrm
    Love to see a winamp-era software evolving to this beauty. Enveloppes and UI colors looks like ableton in a good way.
  • saltysalt
    I hope aup4 is smaller than aup3, because my number one headache with Audacity is file size bloat. Otherwise I love it!
  • ramon156
    Love what Audacity has become, especially the new UI that does not look like it was forced through some scrum pipeline
  • bgribble
    The direction Audacity has been heading now is ok, but it's not for me. I really miss the days when it was just an editor for audio files. I have a DAW already, thanks, but I do still need to just quickly pop open a sample file to trim, normalize, maybe stretch it. I don't want to create a "project" or save really anything other than the edited audio.
  • luckilydiscrete
    Whoa what a glow up!
  • engfan
    There video on their audio editor would have been much more interesting and widely useful if they instead showed how they made their beautiful video. There is much more combined video and audio editing going on than audio-editing alone and doing this well is difficult and time-consuming.
  • pluc
    Audacity and Avidemux have allowed me to look much more skilled in media editing than I have any right to claim
  • fedeb95
    I've always loved audacity, but have always found its editing workflow to be hard to use. This seems an improvement.P.S.: I don't care for looks, but UX seems better. I will try it.
  • KolmogorovComp
    Looks like most of the timeline editing feature could be successfully ported to Kdenlive (FOSS for video-editing)
  • _def
    Hopefully there will be a selfhostable implementation of their cloud counterpart someday? Maybe only a weekend of vibecoding away.
  • sapiogram
    I hope app startup times have been improved, at some this regressed massively, from 0.5s to like 2s.
  • shevy-java
    Wasn't audacity taken over by a company sniffing for user data, some years ago?I noted this down into a local .yml file back in 2021, when Muse Group took over and wanted to telemetry-sniff people. I didn't pay attention to audacity past that point.Also, many accounts on hackernews act very suspiciously, with just raw promo as it if comes from an advertising account. I am noticing this increasingly, where people comment regular news with "this is great!!!!!". That makes no sense.
  • algoth1
    So many 2002 Cool Edit Pro 2.0 vibes!
  • emursebrian
    The new editing features will be pretty useful for sound design.
  • Forgeties79
    2 reminders that I find always need to be mentioned in audacity threads:1) Audacity is not a DAW. I love it, it’s an incredibly robust tool. But I would not use it like a fully fledged DAW.2) Reaper isn’t free. They have an incredibly generous “try before you buy” license, and you should reward them by paying $40 if you use it and decide it is a tool you want to continue to use!
  • SMAAART
    I am sure that Suno would love to buy Audacity.
  • apercu
    I used Audacity decades ago (2006-2010) but when I stopped buying PCs I always found there was noise on a Mac so I switched to logic.I always thought audacity was great, and still prefer its workflow to slow tools or logic. I haven’t ever tried Reaper however.
  • sph
    I can now admit I have always hated using Audacity before, and these updates, just looking at the release videos, have finally won me over. Incredible makeover of a free software application. Good job all!
  • countryhabib
    But where is the AI pfft
  • thinkingtoilet
    If anyone here has contributed to Audacity I just want to say thank you. I'm not a power user. I'm not in audio. However, over the years I have installed Audacity to do some audio things here and there. It has always been so useful.
  • drcongo
    Finally looks great!
  • basisword
    It's been many years since I used Audacity but the interface looks vastly improved.
  • moffkalast
    > some controls have moved or changedThe audacity! /s
  • colincowardly
    [dead]
  • GaryBluto
    Very disappointed to see a program I remembered fondly for its native-feeling interface and functional, wholegrain feeling turned into whatever this is. It’s akin to a nutrient-rich home cooked meal being replaced with McDonald’s. I should’ve known it was doomed from the moment I saw an advertisement for their Discord chat room in the readme.