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.

  • Lexam@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    Is audacity still bad and sending information to Russian servers or something?

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      4 hours ago

      Surprisingly, the Internet seems to look mostly favourably on Audacity these days. I never really kept up with it at the time, but apparently all the allegedly heinous (mis)features were opt-in. (Further verification of this may be required.)

      I can’t tell if that’s the result of a really good scrubbing of bad search results or whether they genuinely cleaned up their act.

      Either way, Tenacity, the fork that came about as a result of the controversy, still exists, and apparently has themes to change the look just like Audacity is claiming to have done now, so if you’re uncertain, that’s always an option.

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      When you start the app for the first time it asks if you want to enable anonymous telemetry, but otherwise I don’t think it sends anything.