I hope aup4 is smaller than aup3, because my number one headache with Audacity is file size bloat. Otherwise I love it!
Audacity 4.0
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Re: Audacity 4.0
#82I 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
Damn this guy is well versed on the topic at hand. Really clear and nice video.
Re: Audacity 4.0
#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
So even after the intense backlash Tantacrul saw on the GH threads, they went ahead and stuffed it full of telemetry anyway. Incredible.
He is pro age-verification with government IDs, what do you expect?
Did he state this in a video somewhere? I checked a couple biography pages but didn't see this specifically called out.
Re: Audacity 4.0
#84Very disappointed to see a program I remembered fondly for its native-feeling interface and functional, wholegrain feeling turned into whatever this is. It’s akin to a nutrient-rich home cooked meal being replaced with McDonald’s. I should’ve known it was doomed from the moment I saw an advertisement for their Discord chat room in the readme.
Audacity users are not programmers.
Discord is the right platform to get feedback from normies.
Re: Audacity 4.0
#85As always, abandoning GTK (or libadwaita. ew.) for Qt is a welcome change. Good for them.
It was using wxWidgets, not GTK directly IIRC
Most people that have never maintained >=Qt5 projects assume free wxWidgets native cross platform OS interface support is less hassle.
Refactoring the application core means their team should have forked the project to audacity-qt rather than inject long term Qt library and license dependency issues into the original package.
Qt on occasion has proven to cause problems with license term changes, GL library bugs on Linux window managers no one ever fixes, and a chain of legacy build issues.
Microsoft people tend to design around entertainment eye candy rather than functional long-term reliability. A interface use-case context pop-up isn't a design choice, but rather just chaotic depending on who is using the seat.
The Audacity 3 interface certainly needed a lot of work, but nuking it for v4 re-write is simply packaging a different program as the original.
Hopefully the remake works out. The odds are not in their favor though... =3
Re: Audacity 4.0
#86in the age of 500MB apps (thanks to electron); it is refreshing to see a sub-50MB app again.
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Re: Audacity 4.0
#87Hopefully there will be a selfhostable implementation of their cloud counterpart someday? Maybe only a weekend of vibecoding away.
I don't understand what you're talking about.
If you want a local cloud, save things to your computer or NAS. You do know how to do that, right?
No need to mindlessly slop code something.
Re: Audacity 4.0
#88Is the team funded off audacity merch sales? What's the most effective way for me to support the continuity of their work?
Re: Audacity 4.0
#89Hopefully there will be a selfhostable implementation of their cloud counterpart someday? Maybe only a weekend of vibecoding away.
just use a modern 'rclone gui' web interface to setup your cloud or sshfs shares. =3
Re: Audacity 4.0
#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
If it happens all the time and it's positive, you shouldn't need a news story to confirm it. People should just be able to think of examples. Certainly I'm able to think of plenty of terrible results from private equity take-overs from my own personal experience as an employee or as a customer.
I'd guess the majority of those success stories are invisible to the end user. e.g. simply keeping the company afloat via PE cash. If I recall correctly, this is what happened to Hilton Hotels. They were collapsing during the housing crisis. A slightly different scenario but Hertz is a PE success story. It was owned by Ford and bought by a private equity firm. Now it's a standalone company making mint.
Were those roll-ups though? I see a poster below says the private equity fund was only involved for the last acquisition, but no one can deny Muse Group/Ultimate Guitar went on a shopping spree. They looked like they were trying to gain control over a whole segment and start squeezing (well, except for that open source projects aren't that easy to squeeze). No wonder people freaked out over the telemetry, it was reasonable to fear the worst. But everything went better than expected.