Audacity 4.0

Post by dspillett » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 4:07 PM UTC

TLLtchvL8KZ wrote: post #149

Mashimo wrote: post #59

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Someone mentions it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49549040 https://tenacityaudio.org Seem like they have a few commit every week. 32 Issues closed in a year: https://codeberg.org/tenacityteam/tenacity/activity/yearly Looks healthy?

I know it's not a proper metric to judge by, but Tenacity is 10k commits behind Audacity. That's quite a lot to get behind since the split. I'd be interested if Tenacity is actively developed or pretty much just maintaining the software from where they split.

Post by sunaookami » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 4:08 PM UTC

echelon wrote: post #115

sunaookami wrote: post #61

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He is pro age-verification with government IDs, what do you expect?

Please cite this if it's true. As far as I can tell they're updating the much dated UX from being stuck in the 90's and are making great strides on the app. I'm fine with them making money as they're investing into a utility I use.

Post by anon7000 » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 4:18 PM UTC

vintermann wrote: post #36

Lautzi wrote: post #9

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

Yes, Tantacrul. Pretty weird story, a composer and programmer who absolutely roasted the UIs of well known sheet music dinosaurs Finale and Sibelius in hilarious diss videos on YouTube. Then he conceded a bit reluctantly that Musescore was the better of the lot, but still had plenty of opinions on how it could be better. So the guitar tabs website which had then recently acquired Musescore offered him a job. Not just…

Post by sixothree » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 4:23 PM UTC

Lautzi wrote: post #9

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

Post by sedawkgrep » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 4:27 PM UTC

somat wrote: post #174

ihujonigyin wrote: post #157

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To sum up: you don’t like the current notation system, terminology and piano keys but also don’t have anything else to add to the discussion other than “I don’t like it”.

It is sort of like english spelling, we all know spelling in english sucks(So pointlessly difficult we have contests centered around the skill), we also all know we can do nothing to fix it. Still gonna complain about it however.