Audacity 4: a glimpse of a new, more modern UI for the free audio editor
4 hours ago
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- Audacity 4 is being redesigned to be a slick, efficient wave editor while remaining free and open source.
- The UI/UX improvements aim to remove obstacles and unpredictability, making the tool faster and more user-friendly.
- Key goals for Audacity 4 include building features for audio editors, removing technical debt, and replatforming to Qt.
- The redesign could make Audacity a preferred tool for quick-and-dirty wave editing outside of DAWs.
- Audacity 3 has seen improvements, but the cloud service upsell has been a point of annoyance for some users.
- The article highlights the potential for Audacity to recapture the simplicity and effectiveness of past wave editors.