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Audacity 4 will be a full UI overhaul apparently. (www.youtube.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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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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[–] 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Watched last weekend. Not a huge fan of the rebrand, but the changes that actually count look great.

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    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...

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  • [–] [S] 17 points 1 year ago*

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    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

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