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Leo Wattenberg | AudacityTeam @lwinterberg.bsky.social · Sep 30

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Leo Wattenberg | AudacityTeam @lwinterberg.bsky.social · Aug 14

It certainly has been rough. I've been improving small bits of it for the past 4 years, but a big UI improvement is coming sometime next year. Let me know if you want to join a user testing session.

Leo Wattenberg | AudacityTeam @lwinterberg.bsky.social · Aug 12

What plugins don't work? We've added support to the major plugin formats (VST3, VST2, AudioUnits) in the past few years.

Leo Wattenberg | AudacityTeam @lwinterberg.bsky.social · Aug 12

Audacity 4.0 at least will bring the current capabilities with some better UX and visuals over. Do give it a try when we release the alpha/beta, hopefully later this year.

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Leo Wattenberg | AudacityTeam @lwinterberg.bsky.social · Aug 12

fwiw, we've made some great improvements to the music workflow during Audacity's 3.x development. Before, it was practically unusable for music, now it's... alright, provided you have recorded music (loops) to work with. We really need to make some big changes on the backend to do MIDI, latency, ...

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Leo Wattenberg | AudacityTeam @lwinterberg.bsky.social · Aug 12

Where did we fuck up?

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Leo Wattenberg | AudacityTeam @lwinterberg.bsky.social · Jun 4

What do you prefer about it?

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Tantacrul @tantacrul.bsky.social · May 29

ICON HELP NEEDED FOR AUDACITY 4!

I seem to be creatively challenged at the moment. Perhaps the community can come to the rescue?

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Leo Wattenberg | AudacityTeam @lwinterberg.bsky.social · May 28

Audacity turns 25 years old today! www.audacityteam.org/blog/25-years/

#audacity #audio #opensource

Audacity ® | Audacity turns 25 years old!

Let's celebrate!

www.audacityteam.org

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Leo Wattenberg | AudacityTeam @lwinterberg.bsky.social · May 27

Oh btw - the point of that thing was to provide some level of exposure to the thing until we can figure out how to do it properly. We'll remove that menu item soon, as we have built a proper "get effects" window now where the various effects can live.

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Leo Wattenberg | AudacityTeam @lwinterberg.bsky.social · May 27

"AI" is a somewhat silly label, I agree. If the AI hype hadn't come around, we probably would've called it "machine learning-based effects" or something. The useful effects from that are pattern recognition anyway

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Leo Wattenberg | AudacityTeam @lwinterberg.bsky.social · May 25

What version is this? I believe we fixed a bug like this some time ago

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Tantacrul @tantacrul.bsky.social · May 19

Audacity is looking for audio engineer (C++) to join our team. Please share with any developers you know who might fit the bill. Salaries are discussed at the outset of the hiring process.

Apply here: www.mu.se/careers/audi...

Audio Software Developer C++ — Muse Group

Muse Group empowers music makers. We create the world’s most popular software for playing, recording and composing music. The Muse community is now over 400 million strong. And we’re just getting star...

www.mu.se

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Leo Wattenberg | AudacityTeam @lwinterberg.bsky.social · May 20

Also - calling Audacity in its current form spyware is patently nonsense. Calling Audacity spyware a month after that article would've been nonsense, too.

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Leo Wattenberg | AudacityTeam @lwinterberg.bsky.social · May 20

The first version of the privacy policy was very shitty, but a document does not magically create a portal into your machine that sends all your data to a three letter agency. All associated code for this, both proposed and actually implemented, would not have allowed for "spyware" activity.

Leo Wattenberg | AudacityTeam @lwinterberg.bsky.social · May 19

It never was spyware, and the article you linked says as much. Also, since that article was written, the privacy policy has been reduced in scope and clarified several times, I recommend reading it: www.audacityteam.org/desktop-priv...

Audacity ® | Desktop Privacy Policy

Audacity is the world's most popular audio editing and recording app. Edit, mix, and enhance your audio tracks with the power of Audacity. Download now!

www.audacityteam.org

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Leo Wattenberg | AudacityTeam @lwinterberg.bsky.social · May 13

yes, that's the rationale for MP2 and MP1 existing: MP3 is somewhat computationally complex, and back in the day that was a problem - hence why radio stuff was done with MP2. FLAC is designed to decode super quickly (though encoding takes forever)

Leo Wattenberg | AudacityTeam @lwinterberg.bsky.social · Apr 23

MP3 is an image collection format designed to share band photos and brightly colored fish.

id3v2 specification, section 4.15 "Attached picture" listing various CD-related media and "A bright coloured fish" as the only allowed options for metadata

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Leo Wattenberg | AudacityTeam @lwinterberg.bsky.social · Apr 22

I mean, they are free to use and you can parse them in whatever way you want. It's just that they assume many things on the inner workings of Audacity which generally aren't helpful to other programs. I recommend using DAWproject or OpenTimelineIO instead. github.com/bitwig/dawpr...

GitHub - bitwig/dawproject: Open exchange format for DAWs

Open exchange format for DAWs. Contribute to bitwig/dawproject development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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Tantacrul @tantacrul.bsky.social · Apr 9

Here's an example of how our native effects will look in Audacity 4.

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Leo Wattenberg | AudacityTeam @lwinterberg.bsky.social · Apr 13

ah, an outdated article that does not cover the current privacy policy (or even the policy that 3.0.3 eventually got released under).

Leo Wattenberg | AudacityTeam @lwinterberg.bsky.social · Apr 9

What's applicable is the privacy policy: www.audacityteam.org/desktop-priv...

And you don't have to send anything, you can disable update checking if you don't value it as a feature. Though if you do have it enabled, you need to send your IP address because that's just how the internet works.

Audacity ® | Desktop Privacy Policy

Audacity is the world's most popular audio editing and recording app. Edit, mix, and enhance your audio tracks with the power of Audacity. Download now!

www.audacityteam.org

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Leo Wattenberg | AudacityTeam @lwinterberg.bsky.social · Apr 9

They did, that's how Markus Hess got caught.

We meanwhile immediately destroy the IP address prior to logging. No 24 hour retention.

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Leo Wattenberg | AudacityTeam @lwinterberg.bsky.social · Apr 9

There literally was never a time you could download a file without anyone being aware of it. Not even in 1986.

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Leo Wattenberg | AudacityTeam @lwinterberg.bsky.social · Apr 9

Also, if you think that update checking is a commercial feature - why does VLC and LibreOffice have it?

As it turns out, real users generally want new features and bugfixes.

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