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Audacity 4.0 is finally out! (www.audacityteam.org)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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TL;DR this is a huge overhaul of the popular open-source audio editing app. The UI specifically has been the biggest overhaul, making it a lot more modern and friendly to use.

Hopefully, one day, GIMP will get some kind of update like this.

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[–] 8 points 2 months ago (10 children)

About time! I was using an Adobe suite program for podcast editing years ago (Adobe didn’t get my money :P) and switched to Audacity.

I’d used Audacity fairly regularly for about 15 years and let me tell you; it was jarring how bad it was compared to modern software. I already see some UI/UX improvements that should make it much more user friendly.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago* (5 children)

    Back on in 2003 Adobe bought the freeware software called CoolEdit 2.0 and republished it as a paid product as Adobe Audition without changing a god damn thing.

    CoolEdit was too good to be true. It's only fair that the developers got paid, but I just wish they didn't have to sell out to Adobe of all companies.

    I hope this 2026 version of Audacity will finally be on level with what we had for free in year 2000.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Cool Edit Pro was not freeware unless you pirated it.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Pro was not, but the earlier versions were technically crippleware. It was distributed freely with magazines and what not. There was no actual cripple though.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shareware Quite a lot of shareware trusted regular users to voluntarily pay for a licence.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    watched the video on this earlier... many of the things they list as new features have been in most audio software for a quarter of a century. up til now id rather hand someone $60 to buy reaper than recommend this thing, but it's catching up fast much like freecad has been doing lately

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  • [+] -7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Don't use that spyware-riddled crap. Use Tenacity instead.

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