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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 esperkin39 »

asfgiaosnio wrote: post #18
esperkin39 wrote: post #9

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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...

People often claim that ChromeOS is versatile enough to replace a normal computer because it has these various compatibility layers. They often fail to mention that they work terribly . You wind up with the poor performance and annoying isolation that VMs give, but with an extra helping of instability and incompatibility. Running anything Google hasn't approved is gated behind "developer mode", and even for a develop…

Versatile is the opposite of what ChromeOS has become. I would argue that there was a time (beginning of pandemic) where it looked like Google might strike the perfect balance between web-reliant (PWAs and safer extensions) and legacy-OS supported (Android, Linux, and even some slight Windows compatibility).

Now, it just seems like a bad version of the legacy operating systems. Android, but in a VM, Linux, but in a VM, and Windows delivered via the cloud!

All of this is worse than just running any of those systems alone.

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

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Post by wyldfire »

ahilss wrote: post #32

Wavacity developer here. I released this a year ago under the name "wavvy" but needed to rename the project because of a trademark conflict. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32688646

Great job!

The world needs more folks to take initiative like this.

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

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Post by esperkin39 »

Fudgel wrote: post #30
esperkin39 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

Also project Fugu: https://www.chromium.org/teams/web-capabilities-fugu/

Unfortunately, Fugu is totally seperate from ChromeOS, since many of Fugus capabilities don't work on the platform. Still, on Windows and Mac, Fugu is definitely more impressive than anything ChromeOS is doing.

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

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Post by nightfly »

londons_explore wrote: post #25
asfgiaosnio wrote: post #18

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People often claim that ChromeOS is versatile enough to replace a normal computer because it has these various compatibility layers. They often fail to mention that they work terribly . You wind up with the poor performance and annoying isolation that VMs give, but with an extra helping of instability and incompatibility. Running anything Google hasn't approved is gated behind "developer mode", and even for a develop…

Test of if an OS is ready for regular users: Does drag and drop work? Can I choose a random image/file somewhere in one tab/application and drop it into another. Just testing that now... * Drag HN logo to Whatsapp Web: Pass * Drag from Google Photos to Photopea: Pass * Drag a zip file from Google Drive to Dropbox: Fail. * Drag an attachment from an email from gmail into an online hex editor: Fail Conclusion: The web…

I've never even considered doing many of those things, and I've worked in IT for ~10 years and been using computers for 25

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

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Post by beebeepka »

lagniappe wrote: post #8
grotorea wrote: post #6

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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.

There is no UT2000. ut99, 2003/4

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

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Post by russellbeattie »

meepmorp wrote: post #33
russellbeattie wrote: post #16

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If all the browsers, including mobile ones, would implement all of the the FileSystem Access APIs, these types of apps would be even more usable. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/File_System...

According to that link, all the browsers do implement the non-experimental parts of that API. The other features seem to be ones that Chrome has shipped unilaterally - the links to the standards docs seem to only have Google authors for those bits.

OK. Let me rephrase. If all browsers would support the very useful set of experimental FSA APIs implemented in Chrome/Edge's desktop browsers, then these types of web apps would be even more usable.

There was nothing biased in my comment - even Chrome for Android doesn't support these APIs.

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

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Post by winrid »

ahilss wrote: post #32

Wavacity developer here. I released this a year ago under the name "wavvy" but needed to rename the project because of a trademark conflict. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32688646

How did you get wxwidgets to compile to the web? Was it a lot of work?

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

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Post by anon____ »

hyperhopper wrote: post #28
pixelpoet wrote: post #10

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On reddit at least it seems like everyone under a certain age doesn't use the term at all and just calls everything, including websites, an app.

To be fair, they aren't wrong. Web applications are applications. Who says native mobile applications are the only kind of applications? Though if you call the PNG file that's a menu for your restaurant an app, that's just wrong.

Can you apply that image file to help you order food? Then that's an application.

And that's why they are wrong. If anything and everything can be called an app then the word lost its meaning.

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