Audacity ® | Audacity 4
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Flagship tour of what's new in Audacity 4.

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.

  • joelfromaus@aussie.zoneEnglish
    6·
    6 hours ago

    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.

    • bstix@feddit.dkEnglish
      2·
      46 minutes ago

      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.

      • joelfromaus@aussie.zoneEnglish
        4·
        4 hours ago

        That’s misinformation.

        If the choice is between a new more polished Audacity or something that looks like old Audacity then refer to my earlier comment.