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Re: Show HN: Audiomass – a free, open-source multitrack audio editor for the web

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post #79

Is this open source? No license.

I'm surprised no one has noticed this yet.

Author here. License is pretty much do whatever you want with it (free as in free information and free beer), I suppose the closest one to that would be MIT, but I don't like its serious legalese tone. I prefer the whimsical "free as in..." phrase

Re: Show HN: Audiomass – a free, open-source multitrack audio editor for the web

#82
post #79

Is this open source? No license.

I'm surprised no one has noticed this yet.

Digging further, this has been shown before in 2020:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23337091

The author mentions in the thread that he eventually plans to have a proper license for it and needs to figure out the licensing of some of the dependencies, but that was six years ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23338538

This is not directed at the quality of the project itself, however, which seems to be good.

Re: Show HN: Audiomass – a free, open-source multitrack audio editor for the web

#83

Hey HN. Thanks again for featuring this project :) this is my favorite community on the internet and my go to site to visit, almost by reflex, when I have idle time, so it feels me with joy to have made something well received here. I 'll be heading off soon, so decided to write some features included in this release that might not be apparent right away (still working on improving the UX). - Drag n drop multiple aud…

This is awesome. Congratulations!

As others on this thread have commented, you haven't specified a license. Don't jump on the first thing you think of. Consider the various OSS licenses and decide which one suits you best.

Re: Show HN: Audiomass – a free, open-source multitrack audio editor for the web

#84

So want something like this but where the tracks are in the cloud. I want to "check out" someone's drum loop and add a guitar riff. Check it into a branch. Someone else checks out the drum+guitar, adds a bass line. Checks in. "Jamming" with other people is one of the most fun things. To the degree that you can "get close" on the web… RiffHub, anyone?

If that's just "turn-based collaboration" use the same DAW and a shared Drive/Dropbox/Whatever.

Re: Show HN: Audiomass – a free, open-source multitrack audio editor for the web

#86

Cool work, the weird part is effects being item based instead of track based and that selecting an effect stops the playing and you apply it blind.

Thanks for your comment :) you can press "preview" (and there is a little on/off) in the effect's modal window. But I agree with you, an automation type system that operates on the entire track might be better

Re: Show HN: Audiomass – a free, open-source multitrack audio editor for the web

#89

So want something like this but where the tracks are in the cloud. I want to "check out" someone's drum loop and add a guitar riff. Check it into a branch. Someone else checks out the drum+guitar, adds a bass line. Checks in. "Jamming" with other people is one of the most fun things. To the degree that you can "get close" on the web… RiffHub, anyone?

For a realtime-ish solution I wonder if you've seen Ninjam[1]? It used to be that most evenings one could find various populated rooms; the serverlist[2] shows that the infrastructure's all sat there ready for people to come.

You play over the most recent (eg) 16 bar repeat. At the end of each repeat, everyone gets the updated loop. It's easier to experience than describe but is surprisingly effective and bypasses a whole class of latency issues.

[1] https://www.cockos.com/ninjam/

[2] http://autosong.ninjam.com/server-list.php

Re: Show HN: Audiomass – a free, open-source multitrack audio editor for the web

#90

It feels like cool edit pro 2 before it was turned to shit by adobe. Your app has a pretty good and intuitive UX. And that's the most important thing in an audio editor.

Ahh THAT's what it was reminding me of. Thanks! CEP2 was great indeed.
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