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I've used Audacity off and on for years. Love that it is still around and pretty much _just works_. It does just what I need, as infrequently as I need it, and

by clebio 9y ago

I've used Audacity off and on for years. Love that it is still around and pretty much _just works_. It does just what I need, as infrequently as I need it, and doesn't require an idiotic (and steep) subscription fee to use (glaring at you Adobe CS).

bastawhiz 9y ago
Honestly, I couldn't disagree more. Audacity is one of the buggiest pieces of open source software I've used. Audio routinely gets corrupted or lost. Their "known issues" page is comically long, and little ever gets fixed. I have a lot of love for them for making audio editing accessible to the masses, but I wish a team would clean the app up like the LibreOffice folks did to OpenOffice.
- SubiculumCode 9y ago
  I hate to agree with you, but I do. Quite buggy.
- brian-armstrong 9y ago
  They are pretty accepting of new patches, and the source is easily readable. Knock yourself out :)
- clebio 9y ago
  Sure, but like, the licensing works well for me. :) Also, I don't know who decided to put a "Find out about LibreOffice Vanilla..." banner in that damn app, which appears Every. Time. I. Open. The. App. now. They need to be taken out back and code-reviewed harshly. It's not like LibreOffice is without many horrendous flaws either.
- pishpash 9y ago
  Oh yeah, it did crash a lot and would get into weird states that would make it hard to recover. Oddly, commercial editing software, even late versions, also had weird corruption issues from time to time, usually when plugins are involved.
  - bastawhiz 9y ago
    I switched to Audition, and while the last CS release was pretty buggy, the CC version has treated me well.
- jimmaswell 9y ago
  You have to be doing something wrong or have something wrong with your setups. I've literally never had that happen in light to heavy use across 5 installations.
  - bastawhiz 9y ago
    It's not hard to find others with problems. Look at the McElroy podcast archive: they alone lost numerous episodes because Audacity just didn't record any audio. My podcasting friends have ended up with corrupt Audacity save files (sometimes after a crash, sometimes just because), requiring a painful recovery process involving stitching together hundreds of scratch files. If it were just me, I'd agree with you. But it's so common that I don't consider it a viable way to edit audio. Edit: in thinking about it, one of the friends I record with often actually records with both Audacity and another app, just because Audacity fails so often.

by clebio 9y ago

bastawhiz 9y ago

Honestly, I couldn't disagree more. Audacity is one of the buggiest pieces of open source software I've used. Audio routinely gets corrupted or lost. Their "known issues" page is comically long, and little ever gets fixed. I have a lot of love for them for making audio editing accessible to the masses, but I wish a team would clean the app up like the LibreOffice folks did to OpenOffice.

SubiculumCode 9y ago
I hate to agree with you, but I do. Quite buggy.
brian-armstrong 9y ago
They are pretty accepting of new patches, and the source is easily readable. Knock yourself out :)
clebio 9y ago
Sure, but like, the licensing works well for me. :) Also, I don't know who decided to put a "Find out about LibreOffice Vanilla..." banner in that damn app, which appears Every. Time. I. Open. The. App. now. They need to be taken out back and code-reviewed harshly. It's not like LibreOffice is without many horrendous flaws either.
pishpash 9y ago
Oh yeah, it did crash a lot and would get into weird states that would make it hard to recover. Oddly, commercial editing software, even late versions, also had weird corruption issues from time to time, usually when plugins are involved.
- bastawhiz 9y ago
  I switched to Audition, and while the last CS release was pretty buggy, the CC version has treated me well.
jimmaswell 9y ago
You have to be doing something wrong or have something wrong with your setups. I've literally never had that happen in light to heavy use across 5 installations.
- bastawhiz 9y ago
  It's not hard to find others with problems. Look at the McElroy podcast archive: they alone lost numerous episodes because Audacity just didn't record any audio. My podcasting friends have ended up with corrupt Audacity save files (sometimes after a crash, sometimes just because), requiring a painful recovery process involving stitching together hundreds of scratch files. If it were just me, I'd agree with you. But it's so common that I don't consider it a viable way to edit audio. Edit: in thinking about it, one of the friends I record with often actually records with both Audacity and another app, just because Audacity fails so often.