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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.
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He made a comment in the video that people have been running versions of audacity that have not been updated in 10 years. I went and had a look at the version I had installed. Yep.
I actually assumed it did have an auto update feature and they’re just wasn’t any updates.
It’s looking freaking gorgeous. Tentacrul is the bomb. His work on MuseScore is arguably the best UX/UI in the FOSS world. It even beats most if not all of the proprietary alternatives in the same category.
I wish he would bring his skills to freecad 😂😂 it is needed!
He also did a great tribute video to Tim Smith / Cardiacs. Was already in my good books, went beyond with that one.
I’ve long been hoping for a FOSS alternative to Garage Band. I think LMMS is the closest but it lacks live music recording, its UI is miserable, and the last release was 2020. It would be great if someone could merge Audacity and LMMS.
This is pretty high on my list of coding projects that I would support if I didn’t need to spend most of my time serving capital.
i literally just found out i want something like this too.
Full UI overhaul?! I can’t believe they had the audacity to do this!
I’m so glad Audacity is getting some much needed love!
I was doing my part and I am sorry it wasn’t enough.
Now when will Gimp get the same treatment… I know some people like it but I just can’t. I’d rather use Affinity Photo via
protona custom wine version (ElementalWarriorWine)I usually go with Krita. Not because of the UI, i just learnt to use it first and like it. Or Inkscape for vector graphics.
Agreed. Krita is a better program for print design. The fact that it has a full range of color models built in is powerful stuff. Not just CMYK, but LAB and many others. But GIMP has its advantages for some tasks if you never leave the realm of RGB.
Krita I tried for while, but I’ve been spoiled by Affinity Photo’s selection tool. Can’t use path tool or magic wand anymore
Ah, didn’t know it worked with Proton!
I have an Affinity license that’s just been collecting dust while I use the Photopea web app.
It does! Works pretty well even. I followed this guide: https://github.com/seapear/AffinityOnLinux
Gimp is a misbegotten, irredeemable piece of UI trash. The fact that it’s been around this long and gets egregiously worse with each iteration is baffling to me.
I mean, it in a very literal way the parent project of GTK, and therefore indirectly responsible for GNOME, so that kind of checks out. I use it quite often though, and you can learn it to do what you wanna do.
Hey I don’t want to come off the wrong way, couple decades ago gimp was very useful to me, when I was trapped in a company that wouldn’t pay a penny for any kind of software, and on the FOSS side of things choices for imaging applications were sparse at best. Gimp was a lifesaver at times.
But it always been an interface disaster. I spent decades doing UI/X alongside other development, and gimp has always been a piece of shit designed by a programmer with the toxic “what it works” mentally.
I wonder what happened to it’s forks, Tenacity & Audacium
Tenacity is still active
I remember that there was an issue with mainline audicity, like they put malware in it or something? And that’s why it was forked?
That logo is fucking terrible. Cult minimalism produced a red sperm and a disconnected semicircle. It reads as nothing.
The ‘classic look’ in dark mode still puts 90% of the interface in light mode.
No other complaints.
In the video, Tantacrul shows how it matches with the aesthetic of the rest of Muse’s icons…but it kind of doesn’t.
He (correctly) insisted on keeping the headphone iconography, but the rest of Muse’s icons are letters. UltimateGuitar’s imp ears plus arrow makes a G one, then the others are abstract geometric T for Tonebridge, a weird S for MuseScore, a really bad circle/diagonal line for an A for audio.com and two verticle lines and a circle for an H for MuseHub, whatever the hell that is. And then Audacity’s headphones. Going for stylistic resemblance…for the logos of websites, phone apps and desktop apps that probably won’t be seen together. Plus in a lot of places MuseScore’s Mu with fermata mark is still in use.
Honestly, the comparison with the rest of those icons was the only part I respected. It’s a suite of cult minimalist bullshit. Which still doesn’t explain how nobody went, “that’s a sperm.”
Or at least, “why isn’t it blue or yellow?”
Doesn’t look like a sperm to me, it looks like broken headphones.
The magenta is also…it’s like, if the Firefox logo was suddenly green. That’s not Audacity’s color.
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
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
Ardour is milea ahead on all that anyway. Tenacity is a simple multi-channel recorder. That’s all it needs to be
Hard agree! It fills a really specific use case, for ease of use, relatively simple projects (though like any simple tech, artists gonna art and make something massive lol).
Aurduor and the like (I jumped over to Reaper) are truly excellent options for more intense projects.
Yeah… Who the hell uses audacity anymore.
Me
Basically everyone.
Yep. Tenacity all the way!
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
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.
Just use Tenacity 🙂
Watched last weekend.
On Nebula? !nebula@lemmy.world if you’re interested.
I’ve actually switched to Ocenaudio for what little I do and have been happy.
It’s not open source, sadly…
Hope the new UI fixes the FFT view lagging.
should, since it ports all the Ui from wxwidgets to qt
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”.
This isn’t new, the features have been in the app for a while now
Also subtitling with whisper, which is awesome
Damn that looks clean.
