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Good video, very much worth watching despite the length. New UI will look something like this:
with an option for a more classic look.
Looks like an enourmous UX improvement too, and a rewrite to QT and eliminating a lot of technical debt will make development faster.
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Full UI overhaul?! I can’t believe they had the audacity to do this!
i mean they were using the rather old wxwidgets
I’m not criticising. I just wanted to play with the word audacity
Now when will Gimp get the same treatment… I know some people like it but I just can’t. I’d rather use Affinity Photo via
protona custom wine version (ElementalWarriorWine)I usually go with Krita. Not because of the UI, i just learnt to use it first and like it. Or Inkscape for vector graphics.
Krita I tried for while, but I’ve been spoiled by Affinity Photo’s selection tool. Can’t use path tool or magic wand anymore
Agreed. Krita is a better program for print design. The fact that it has a full range of color models built in is powerful stuff. Not just CMYK, but LAB and many others. But GIMP has its advantages for some tasks if you never leave the realm of RGB.
Ah, didn’t know it worked with Proton!
I have an Affinity license that’s just been collecting dust while I use the Photopea web app.
It does! Works pretty well even. I followed this guide: https://github.com/seapear/AffinityOnLinux
Watched last weekend. Not a huge fan of the rebrand, but the changes that actually count look great.
Yeah, the branding is definitely ‘meh’ at best, but even worse, in my opinion, is the tight integration with the whole Muse ecosystem and MuseHub thing (and the default download on the website being the MuseHub-based installer too) and built-in cloud storage crap. It just feels wrong to have an open source application integrated so tightly into all their proprietary services all the way through. Just installed the latest version 3.7.5, and I was surprised at how much nagging there was, on both the website and in the application itself.
But other than the whole Muse stuff, Audacity 4.0 looks really awesome in terms of UI and UX. And at least there is a non-MuseHub installer and you can choose not to use their other stuff, and say no to the telemetry…
Frankly, since it’s still open source, I’m ok with it since it also means developpement is much faster, and you can avoid it. At least for me when I installed it on linux through the app store, I didn’t notice any of your complaints.
As someone with no attachement to the previous branding I quite like the new branding though, fits the new vibe of the app quite well.
i’ve never had noticeable lag in audacity besides a niche crash that got fixed. though the cloud storage thing never ever worked for me. it’s nice though and you still save locally instead of to cloud by default. plusi think the musehub thing is kinda explainable with the proprietary effects marketplace they added to musehub, and it’s not like audacity plugins were always foss anyways
i’ve never had noticeable lag
I think you misread ‘nagging’ as ‘lagging’ in my comment
Watched last weekend.
On Nebula? !nebula@lemmy.world if you’re interested.
OMG! I read that as Full AI Overhaul.
They are adding “AI” features in a collaboration with Intel, but luckily they’re minor additions like ML based noise reduction
Also subtitling with whisper, which is awesome
Hope the new UI fixes the FFT view lagging.
should, since it ports all the Ui from wxwidgets to qt
He made a comment in the video that people have been running versions of audacity that have not been updated in 10 years. I went and had a look at the version I had installed. Yep.
I actually assumed it did have an auto update feature and they’re just wasn’t any updates.
Damn that looks clean.
I’ve long been hoping for a FOSS alternative to Garage Band. I think LMMS is the closest but it lacks live music recording, its UI is miserable, and the last release was 2020. It would be great if someone could merge Audacity and LMMS.
This is pretty high on my list of coding projects that I would support if I didn’t need to spend most of my time serving capital.
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All the changes seem awesome, looking forward to trying out version 4
cos the ui is why people abandoned it… :picard:
the audacity (sorry :D)
I wonder what happened to it’s forks, Tenacity & Audacium
(Based on the screenshot only) Where’s the menu gone?
Screenshot from macos, so I assume in the top bar
Thanks. I tend to worry with redesigns these days.
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