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Re: Audacity 3.4

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Post by nine_k »

0cf8612b2e1e wrote: post #29
evgpbfhnr wrote: post #2

Speaking of which, how did that "audacity isn't FOSS" fuss end up? A quick search shows tenacity is still active ( https://codeberg.org/tenacityteam/tenacity ) but I have no idea how much the projects kept interacting after the initial debate

I recently needed to do some sound editing, and I had a dreadful experience with Tenacity. Running on PopOS, I encountered many crashes doing simple manipulations. Even trying to scroll while playing audio ostensibly resulted in a crash. Small favor, the restore-unsaved-work functionality did save me several times. Eventually, I held my nose and ran Audacity in a VM, and not a single crash.

Running in a VM is drastic. I'd go for bubblewrap, or a plain container. Can cut network access all right.

Re: Audacity 3.4

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Post by teilo »

Audacity, despite its weaknesses compared to commercial tools, still excels at batch processing due to its Nyquist plugin suite. The macro tool is finicky, but you can still do things that nothing else can in a batch, like trimming leading and trailing silence and then adding an exact amount of silence to the front and end of a file. You would think functions so simple and obvious as this would already exist in Audition, RX, SpectraLayers, etc., but no.

Re: Audacity 3.4

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Post by marssaxman »

This is a big deal! My primary use of Audacity was to create custom edits of tracks I wanted to mix, saving effort later when DJing. Aligning my edits with the beat grid always took a lot of work, so much so that I hacked up a different audio editor, trying to integrate beat detection (https://github.com/marssaxman/gum-audio). Audacity felt like it was frustratingly behind the times in this regard; well, it's five years later now, but I'm glad to see they've made it happen.

Re: Audacity 3.4

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Post by ddejohn »

TheAceOfHearts wrote: post #40
Aachen wrote: post #17

> You can now change the duration of your audio clips without affecting their pitch non-destructively. Audacity 3.4 uses a new time stretching algorithm specifically made for music, which outperforms many of the commercially available options. Way to bury the lede! What's this magic algorithm being spoken of, how does it work so well? > A more detailed overview of these changes can be found in our changelog . The cha…

Tangential to this, I've noticed significant differences in audio quality when listening to audiobooks at 2x speed on VLC vs MPV. In particular MPV doesn't seem as clipped. A bit of an open ended question, but is there anything more I could do to process the audiobook to make it sound even better at 2x?

> A bit of an open ended question, but is there anything more I could do to process the audiobook to make it sound even better at 2x?

Sounds like you could download Audacity 3.4 and make a 2x version of your audiobook files using their new time stretching algorithm.

Re: Audacity 3.4

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Post by fbdab103 »

TheAceOfHearts wrote: post #40
Aachen wrote: post #17

> You can now change the duration of your audio clips without affecting their pitch non-destructively. Audacity 3.4 uses a new time stretching algorithm specifically made for music, which outperforms many of the commercially available options. Way to bury the lede! What's this magic algorithm being spoken of, how does it work so well? > A more detailed overview of these changes can be found in our changelog . The cha…

Tangential to this, I've noticed significant differences in audio quality when listening to audiobooks at 2x speed on VLC vs MPV. In particular MPV doesn't seem as clipped. A bit of an open ended question, but is there anything more I could do to process the audiobook to make it sound even better at 2x?

2x! What kind of books are you reading? I have gone as far as 1.4-1.5x, but that feels about the best I can do without having to be laser focused on just listening (ie not doing chores or other minor activities as is my habit).

Re: Audacity 3.4

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Post by paul7986 »

Does anyone know if there's an AI music app in which I can sing my melodies into and it then automatically adds AI drums, bass and other instruments? Be even cooler if i change my singing voice too

I loved Apple's Music Memos (works still on some old iPhones) as I could strum my guitar and sing my songs in it to automagically with one click add AI drums and bass (tempo could be changed/edited). They discontinued the app a few years ago, unfortunately.

Re: Audacity 3.4

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Post by colanderman »

beepbooptheory wrote: post #34
Aachen wrote: post #17

> You can now change the duration of your audio clips without affecting their pitch non-destructively. Audacity 3.4 uses a new time stretching algorithm specifically made for music, which outperforms many of the commercially available options. Way to bury the lede! What's this magic algorithm being spoken of, how does it work so well? > A more detailed overview of these changes can be found in our changelog . The cha…

I just feel like, for just stretching stuff and staying in pitch, any off-the-shelf FFT-based method has near perfect results within a meaningful range anyway. It has felt like a solved problem for a while? What does the "high-quality" mean here?

Most stretching algorithms I've heard have noticeable "ghosting" of transients, and tend to muddle synthesizer tones (due to discarding phase information). I am very curious to test this one.

Re: Audacity 3.4

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Post by saint_yossarian »

KMnO4 wrote: post #12
RockRobotRock wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

seems like its because they tried to add basic telemetry?

Yes, they updated their privacy and data collection policy. That’s kinda the blessing and the curse of FOSS. You absolutely can fork the repo, remove the telemetry, and republish it as a new app. But fragmentation is confusing, requires a lot of maintenance, and really I’m not sure it was worth it. Those who are particularly conscious about the telemetry can block it with a single line in /etc/hosts.

Looks like there's also a build flag to disable all networking, which the Debian package sets: https://salsa.debian.org/multimedia-team/audacity/-/commit/1...
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