[HN Gopher] Audacity 4: a glimpse of a new, more modern UI for t...
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       Audacity 4: a glimpse of a new, more modern UI for the free audio
       editor
        
       Author : robenkleene
       Score  : 19 points
       Date   : 2025-10-06 21:04 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | foxfired wrote:
       | A few months back I've downloaded the beta version and was kinda
       | disappointed. I understand that switching to Qt will make future
       | development much easier, but it wasn't addressing my main concern
       | with Audacity.
       | 
       | When I decided to record an audio version of my book, I started
       | with Audacity. But it quickly failed me when I started losing
       | track of what files I was using, and if I deleted a file from the
       | timeline, it was impossible to track what was what. All this
       | because Audacity doesn't have a media manager. Instead, you have
       | to open a folder on the side and manage media yourself. I've
       | written a blog post about it, didn't get much traction. But as of
       | a few days ago, one of the developers commented that a media me
       | is "on our shortlist of new features to include".
       | 
       | I am really looking forward to version 4.0, I hope Audacity gets
       | its Blender moment.
        
         | ofalkaed wrote:
         | Audacity is a linear audio editor and you sound like you were
         | trying to use it as a non-linear DAW, which feature bloat and
         | undo/redo sort of but not really lets you do. A media manager
         | does not really help in this sort of editor, your timeline is
         | not an arrangement of files as it is in a daw but the actual
         | audio file you are arranging and changes are destructive.
         | Linear editing is like working with tape, your changes are
         | permanent, every change alters the medium (the destination
         | audiofile held in memory in this case); non-linear is like a
         | sampler on steroids and is how DAWs function, you arrange the
         | samples (files) in time and then record them out to a file when
         | things are how you want it.
        
       | ChrisArchitect wrote:
       | More discussion:
       | 
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45463626
        
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