Good video, very much worth watching despite the length. New UI will look something like this:
with an option for a more classic look.
Looks like an enourmous UX improvement too, and a rewrite to QT and eliminating a lot of technical debt will make development faster.
Holy shit yes. Also while we’re at it please guys add an option to put the timeline in just seconds instead of minutes:seconds
Full UI overhaul?! I can’t believe they had the audacity to do this!
i mean they were using the rather old wxwidgets
I’m not criticising. I just wanted to play with the word audacity
Hope the new UI fixes the FFT view lagging.
I’m so glad Audacity is getting some much needed love!
Tenacity has replaced this years ago. Fuck around, find out!
And what exactly does Tenacity bring to the table other than a name replace across the code-base?
The non-destructive editing and realtime effects alone are a huge jump in capability between the current and old versions of Audacity, and that’s before we even discuss UI improvements
Ardour is milea ahead on all that anyway. Tenacity is a simple multi-channel recorder. That’s all it needs to be
From what I could tell when I looked into it after a comment someone left on !nebula@lemmy.world, some people were very upset at the privacy implications of Audacity adding an update detection mechanism (which can be turned off, and which is not included at all in the default build if you build it yourself).
Are people are actually upset about an auto update feature? A feature that has been pretty standard in programs for a very long time?
I understood some of the upset when they added telemetry, but auto-update?
Not even auto-update. Just auto detect updates. Then you go and download it yourself manually.
Auto-update-detection meant that the software was calling out to a remote server, so they updated the TOS to reflect that, and people got upset.
afaik most distros and flathub package it without that for obvious reasons
they backtracked on the privacy policy and said they had really overzealous lawyers that they somehow mistrusted lawyers doing so “out of an abundance of caution” so i’m still giving them one final chance here since that issue was resolved rather quickly (within two weeks, which is why i’m not absolving them and giving them a chance, but it’s been uneventful since 2021 so i think that strike’s gonna expire in a year)
and i don’t think the telemetry was every an issue since it was always going to be opt-in
tenacity does not have the rally useful beats and measures feature for some reason
They also pissed off a lot of contributors and community members. Tenacity for me!
if the concern is just about telemetry, I seriously wonder why Tenacity isn’t just a soft fork of Audacity, like VSCodium is to VS code, or Librewolf to Firefox.
that way you get the best of both worlds, the amazing new features in Audacity, without the worry of corporate control
Yeah… Who the hell uses audacity anymore.
i’ve yet to meet a single person who uses tenacity
Me
OMG! I read that as Full AI Overhaul.
They are adding “AI” features in a collaboration with Intel, but luckily they’re minor additions like ML based noise reduction
In other words tasks that “AI” is actually good for, not attempting to generate your music or apply some kind of “magic filter”.
Also subtitling with whisper, which is awesome
Watched last weekend. Not a huge fan of the rebrand, but the changes that actually count look great.
Yeah, the branding is definitely ‘meh’ at best, but even worse, in my opinion, is the tight integration with the whole Muse ecosystem and MuseHub thing (and the default download on the website being the MuseHub-based installer too) and built-in cloud storage crap. It just feels wrong to have an open source application integrated so tightly into all their proprietary services all the way through. Just installed the latest version 3.7.5, and I was surprised at how much nagging there was, on both the website and in the application itself.
But other than the whole Muse stuff, Audacity 4.0 looks really awesome in terms of UI and UX. And at least there is a non-MuseHub installer and you can choose not to use their other stuff, and say no to the telemetry…
Frankly, since it’s still open source, I’m ok with it since it also means developpement is much faster, and you can avoid it. At least for me when I installed it on linux through the app store, I didn’t notice any of your complaints.
As someone with no attachement to the previous branding I quite like the new branding though, fits the new vibe of the app quite well.
i’ve never had noticeable lag in audacity besides a niche crash that got fixed. though the cloud storage thing never ever worked for me. it’s nice though and you still save locally instead of to cloud by default. plusi think the musehub thing is kinda explainable with the proprietary effects marketplace they added to musehub, and it’s not like audacity plugins were always foss anyways
i’ve never had noticeable lag
I think you misread ‘nagging’ as ‘lagging’ in my comment
Just use Tenacity 🙂
Watched last weekend.
On Nebula? !nebula@lemmy.world if you’re interested.
Damn that looks clean.
All the changes seem awesome, looking forward to trying out version 4
Audacity UI has looked basically the same since the first time I used the app in 2006
(Based on the screenshot only) Where’s the menu gone?
Screenshot from macos, so I assume in the top bar
Thanks. I tend to worry with redesigns these days.
