Audacity 3.5 Released with Cloud Saving, Beat Detection, Pitch Shifting, and More
Audacity 3.5 Released with Cloud Saving, Beat Detection, Pitch Shifting, and More
Audacity 3.5 open-source digital audio editor and recording application is now available for download with several new features.
I’m a little out of the loop, but I recall Audacity took a massive nose dive a while ago. Have they recovered from this?
In particular, the cloud features doesn’t pass the smell test for me. Is this one of those apps where you download the old version?
It's still going but I think a good chunk of the FOSS community avoids it. Distros that still ships it disable the telemetry.
Definitely feels like the desperate attempts to monetize it, and the enshittification that typically arises next.
As far as I know it's still fine to use if your distro disables the telemetry, which is what most people had issues with. It's still under the same license in the end, which is probably why they're now pivoting to cloud features: that they can make proprietary. I'm sure cloud-based AI plugins are next.
Aww I was just about gush about how awesome they've been all these years. Guess I haven't really kept up to date. I mean it doesn't sound like it's gone totally to shit, but just clearly embarking on a path straight in to the shit
It's still spyware, but people do not care anymore.
Tenacity is a thing.
I might be wrong, but I remember reading that they removed the objectionable content after the fuss that was kicked up.
They attempted to add opt-in telemetry a few years ago and people lost their shit for some reason. They didn't merge it, but the FOSS community's "fork first ask questions later" attitude kicked in anyway and multiple forks popped up while now the original project has permanently been labelled as spyware, which is fun. Fun fact, KDE Plasma actually has opt-in telemetry. Dolphin, Kate and a few kdepim apps also do. Plasma also has opt-in automated crash reporting, which is particularly evil. Y'all better uninstall them right now. I mean, what if you accidentally opted in, or something? Anyway, not a fan of hostile forks unless someone can actually prove the original project has gone to shit.
Why does it need cloud saving?
So other people have your data.
Yeah, haven’t they been sniffing data for a few releases?
Friendship with audacity ended a while ago, nobody needs cloud saving for this at ALL. Go download tenacity instead.
Shout-out to Tenacity, forked when Audacity got bought out and started heading down a dark path.
Unrelated question, but what's the DE in the screenshot? Looks super clean
Gnome with the dock-to-panel extension.
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It looks like Gnome.
Just speculation, but Deepin?
I'd be happy if I could just "hide" a section of audio without needing to delete it. I'm often trying to shorten musical pieces and having a way to hide/unhide a section would be so much easier than relying on delete/undo.
This should be possible since version 3.1: https://support.audacityteam.org/additional-resources/changelog/older-versions/audacity-3.1
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So - lets say I'm taking a long piece of music and making something like a "radio edit".
I decide a chorus can go, maybe the another section, perhaps a repeated phrase here or there. But now it's too short so I want to put that chorus back in. Or change how much of the chorus was removed since I removed too much.
There isn't an easy way to undo that delete without ctrl+z'ing my way back through all my deletes. I want something like a "hide column" feature from spreadsheets where I can just skip over that section but not really delete it. And to have a marker so I can undo it and change it later.
Might be a niche request but it's something I need to do from time-to-time.
Didn't Audacity already have pitch shifting? Or did they improve the algorithm? If the latter is true, this is very exciting to me