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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 conradludgate »

dylan604 wrote: post #75
bjackman wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What motivated you to build this? Just because it's cool (it is cool!) or to serve a practical need?

There was a lot of discussion back when Audacity decided to make some changes. I don't remember what they were specifically, but I do remember a few threads here about forks of the project. I don't remember the name wavvy, so maybe this is another fork. I was thinking the fork discussed here previously also was a play on the "*city" name as well.

IIRC They 1. Changed the license 2. Added a CLA 3. Added telemetry to the prebuilt binary

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

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Post by asddubs »

autoexec wrote: post #72
bigyikes wrote: post #3

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/

> Audacity is an indispensable utility. It’s great to see it and other “real” software on the web. It's been a very long time since I used it, but didn't Audacity turn evil, add a bunch of networking code it never needed before, and start spying on people? ( https://fosspost.org/audacity-is-now-a-spyware/ ). I remember people reverting to older "safe" versions. I guess that doesn't much matter for this web app since…

IMHO the spyware angle was overblown. they added telemetry to the dev builds. the real thing I took issue with was adding a CLA after the fact

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

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Post by whoopdedo »

adamrezich wrote: post #5
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...

Seeing as we're talking about a webasm blob rendering into a canvas element, I'd title it "The Death & Rebirth of Flash".

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

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Post by d-k-bo »

dylan604 wrote: post #75
bjackman wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What motivated you to build this? Just because it's cool (it is cool!) or to serve a practical need?

There was a lot of discussion back when Audacity decided to make some changes. I don't remember what they were specifically, but I do remember a few threads here about forks of the project. I don't remember the name wavvy, so maybe this is another fork. I was thinking the fork discussed here previously also was a play on the "*city" name as well.

I think the largest of those forks is tenacity [1]. Some of the other forks were incorporated into it.

[1]: https://codeberg.org/tenacityteam/tenacity/

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

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Post by eastbound »

autoexec wrote: post #70
StevePerkins wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does EVERY desktop application really need to run on mobile? Some apps are just... call me crazy... desktop apps! (NOTE: "native vs. browser-based" is separate distinction from "desktop vs. mobile".) That's not to say that there can't be mobile audio apps, or mobile whatever. I just think that's a separate app, and should be designed and written as a mobile app from conception. I realize that a large cohort finds des…

> I realize that a large cohort finds desktop applications uncool today, but I'm just so frustrated with the idea that serious and powerful desktop interfaces need to crippled in order to fit into a "mobile-first" (a.k.a. "lowest-common denominator") paradigm. Yeah, my primary issue with this sort of thing is that there is very little personal A/V content I'd feel comfortable uploading to some random server in the fi…

You said it: Designed for content consumption. Hence it’s important to not cripple the UI of content creation tools for platforms that aren’t suitable for that.

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

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Post by dspillett »

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?

> What do we do next?

Recompile Chromium for webasm. Run Chromium in Chromium in Chromium…

Then add Firefox into the mix.

(Being facetious of course, not wishing to put down managing to get an Audacity port running this way which is cool and even potentially useful (should you find yourself desperately in need of an audio editor in a place where you can't install software packages)).

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