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Popular Open-Source Audio Editor Audacity Adds Windows 10 Support, More Improvements (audacityteam.org)
Audacity, a popular open-source and cross-platform audio editor, has received a "maintenance" update that brings several improvements. Dubbed v2.1.3, the biggest new addition appears to be support for Windows 10 OS. For Mac users, Audacity now works in tandem with the Magic Mouse. "We now support Trackpad and Magic Mouse horizontal scroll without SHIFT key and Trackpad pinch and expand to zoom at the pointer," the release note says. We also have new "Scrub Ruler" and "Scrub Toolbar" scrubbing options in the application now. Read the full changelog here.
That's not "improvements", that's a bug fix in my book.
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It has an exciting new feature where it shows you the covert audio stream being sent to Microsoft in realtime!
It's too popular.
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You cannot have an audio recording session sabotaged by the system deciding to upgrade and reboot, or by wasting time on showing you ads and spying and reporting on your habits.
So recording with Audacity on Windows 10 is a clear no-no. Granted, off-line editing will likely work, but less reliably than using a 10-year old laptop from a scrapyard sale or just booting a live Ubuntu Studio from USB stick.
So why bother? Running Windows 10 makes only sense for applications for which there is absolutely no other viable platform, and even then you are usually better off redesigning your workflows. And for Audacity, Windows is a second-tier system anyway.
Why has nobody told me this? I've been using Audacity on Win10 for months!
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You've never actually used Win10 have you? Just following the sheep-minded propaganda I see
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Open source projects seem to consistently have poor UIs. And before anyone jumps me, yes I have been involved in interface design on open source apps. Maybe it's a matter of taste, but the current interface looks like a bad Aqua app from 10 years ago. Jelly bean buttons? Seriously?
And to put my time where my mouth is, if any of the developers are reading this and want help contact me. Not a deep coder but have done UI layout in the Mac/iOS world. If you think it's fine as is, then we should agree to disagree.
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Does Audacity have the concept of clips like other sound editors and nonlinear video editors?
The last time I tried to use it, it seemed to treat each track as a single waveform, so if I trimmed a bit off a track I couldn't just drag to grow a bit of it back. This made simple tasks like synchronizing multiple tracks extremely difficult.
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I've used Audacity for years. It's a powerful, useful audio editor. The releases are stable. It's a great program.
Though, the UI is not in keeping with the quality of the rest of the program. I have written to the developers. The response I got back suggested that the developers are not really open for any kind of visual changes. In fact, the reskinning functionally was removed in later versions.
I would like a UI that looks more like Ardour. Though, if the developers don't like dark themed UI's, perhaps a slider could be added something like in Adobe Premier so the user can change the light/dark elements on the fly. Other work needs to be done, like modernizing the icons and making sure it is ready for 4K.
Additionally, thank you for Audacity. It is a wonderful program, worthy of being a showpiece in the open source community.
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"Magic Mouse horizontal scroll without SHIFT key" ... silence ... and now this. Thanks Audacity team. Happy. :-)
It's nice to see a suggestion taken on board and implemented. I use FCP X all day so side scrolling the timeline with the Magic Mouse is very important. When I used Audacity, I noticed it couldn't do that, which slowed my editing down significantly. I reported it, some communication happened, a screen recording was sent, then
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Window$ 10 adds you.
So much for the backward compatibility of Windows. Audacity has had support for earlier versions of Windows for ages, and it even still supports Windows XP. Why didn't it work under Windows 10 right out of the box?
By the look of it, https://ardour.org/ is a full multi track recordiing studio while http://www.audacityteam.org/ is a simple wave file editor. There is no comparrison. It is like comparing Photoshop to Paint. Audacity should have given up years ago, especially considering their bar was set so low. It only ever barely worked on OSX.
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