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Wavacity – a FOSS port of Audacity to the web

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Re: Wavacity – a FOSS port of Audacity to the web

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Post by bigyikes »

Wow, this is incredible! I was not expecting it to work on mobile Safari of all things, but it does! The UI is even usable.

Audacity is an indispensable utility. It’s great to see it and other “real” software on the web. I’m reminded of Photopea[1] which is a web clone of Photoshop.

[1]: https://www.photopea.com/

Re: Wavacity – a FOSS port of Audacity to the web

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Post by londons_explore »

evrimoztamur wrote: post #2

Alright, it's at a kind of uncanny valley situation where we have Windows XP applications running real-time in our browsers. Is the end-game just a universal sandboxed VM that's cross-platform? What do we do next?

Run a web browser in the sandboxed VM duh. Must always add more layers.

Re: Wavacity – a FOSS port of Audacity to the web

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Post by adamrezich »

evrimoztamur wrote: post #2

Alright, it's at a kind of uncanny valley situation where we have Windows XP applications running real-time in our browsers. Is the end-game just a universal sandboxed VM that's cross-platform? What do we do next?

"The Birth & Death of JavaScript" called it...

Re: Wavacity – a FOSS port of Audacity to the web

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Post by grotorea »

evrimoztamur wrote: post #2

Alright, it's at a kind of uncanny valley situation where we have Windows XP applications running real-time in our browsers. Is the end-game just a universal sandboxed VM that's cross-platform? What do we do next?

We can already do that for DOS programs, right? So a few more decades and it should work for XP too.

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Post by lagniappe »

grotorea wrote: post #6
evrimoztamur wrote: post #2

Alright, it's at a kind of uncanny valley situation where we have Windows XP applications running real-time in our browsers. Is the end-game just a universal sandboxed VM that's cross-platform? What do we do next?

We can already do that for DOS programs, right? So a few more decades and it should work for XP too.

I still can't find Unreal Tournament 2000 running in the browser :( and not Return to Napali either :/

My heart will go on.

Re: Wavacity – a FOSS port of Audacity to the web

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Post by esperkin39 »

evrimoztamur wrote: post #2

Alright, it's at a kind of uncanny valley situation where we have Windows XP applications running real-time in our browsers. Is the end-game just a universal sandboxed VM that's cross-platform? What do we do next?

For better or for worse, that's what Google is aiming at with ChromeOS. Especially now that the overarching "OS" is really just a Linux shell for multiple VMs.

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/docs/l...

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