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.
It’s looking freaking gorgeous. Tentacrul is the bomb. His work on MuseScore is arguably the best UX/UI in the FOSS world. It even beats most if not all of the proprietary alternatives in the same category.
He also did a great tribute video to Tim Smith / Cardiacs. Was already in my good books, went beyond with that one.
I wish he would bring his skills to freecad 😂😂 it is needed!
I actually like FreeCAD and its UI a lot and the recent improvements are huge! Yes it has its quirks but for a tool as versatile as FreeCAD they are acceptable.
It’s definitely improving! I hope they also improve the default shortcuts because having to reach to almost the last key on the other side of the keyboard (k) for the single most used constraint is pretty nuts while there are almost unused closer keys lol.
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.
i literally just found out i want something like this too.
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.
That logo is fucking terrible. Cult minimalism produced a red sperm and a disconnected semicircle. It reads as nothing.
The ‘classic look’ in dark mode still puts 90% of the interface in light mode.
No other complaints.
OMG! I read that as Full AI Overhaul.
I’ve actually switched to Ocenaudio for what little I do and have been happy.
It’s not open source, sadly…
Damn that looks clean.
cos the ui is why people abandoned it… :picard:
the audacity (sorry :D)
They had to give us something for all that telemetry to keep their entirely educated and tech savy user base on board. 🙄
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
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
(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.
Audacity UI has looked basically the same since the first time I used the app in 2006
All the changes seem awesome, looking forward to trying out version 4
