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Introducing Audacity 4: New tools & a new look (download in post body) (www.youtube.com)
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Download Audacity 4: https://www.musehub.com/app/audacity / https://github.com/audacity/audacity/releases/tag/Audacity-4.0.0

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[–] 14 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Finally! I haven't been able to use it due to problems with menus that stem from incompatibility with Wayland (...I think, it's been a minute). Been using Tenacity instead, which has been a decent stand-in, but it will be nice to be able to use the OG again.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

    Wait, people want to use Audacity? I switched to Tenacity because I wanted to due to it having no slop or telemetry. I figured all Tenacity users were the same.

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

    I'm out of the loop. Please enlighten me

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  • [–] [S] 22 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Audacity was bought by Muse Group and almost immediately implemented a "don't you rather want to save on our cloud service instead?" pop-up and IIRC telemetry. Tenacity emerged as the most active fork without that shit and they since diverged a lot from Audacity.

    OTOH the resources of Muse Group made this huge rewrite possible. The level of pain between using wxWidgets or dismissing pop-ups is higher for wxWidgets for me.

    Maybe Tenacity is willing to throw away their homegrown developments to start fresh with the new code base. No idea.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    That's why I switched too. I installed the latest Audacity on a work computer, after using it lots in the past, without knowing about the Muse group situation. The install kinda tricks you into also installing their Muse bullshit along with it

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Im on wayland and don't recall having an issue with audacity since i switched to Linux over a year ago fwiw. It's been a few months since i did anything serious with it but a year ago i did initially record ~100 hours of audio on it for a project

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    There was something weird with the menus locking up. I tried the pacman package and the flatpak, and both had the same issue.

    It was a known issue that was going to be addressed via the v5 revamp, but I can't seem to find the original issue. Maybe it was a Qt thing, I dunno.

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

    Wasn't there some issues with telemetry data flowing to Russia or something? I never looked into it as I didn't need an audio editor since I've read that. Is that still an issue (she was it ever one to begin with)?

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