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Now we just need to wrap this in Electron so we can run it on desktop! ;)
by kethinov 4y ago
Now we just need to wrap this in Electron so we can run it on desktop! ;)
- hrdwdmrbl 4y agoA cheap way to do it is to use Nativefier. It's not perfect but it's like a 80% solution.
- xd1936 4y agoI think this was tongue-in-cheek. Nobody would actually want to take a native C/C++ Audacity, port it to WASM, and then wrap it in Electron to make it a "desktop app" again.
- sitkack 4y agoIt would give you safety properties that native Audacity doesn't have. It would also make distribution much easier.
- lelanthran 4y ago> It would give you safety properties that native Audacity doesn't have. It would also make distribution much easier. Has Audacity ever had safety issues in the past? Because it sounds like you'll be going to a lot of effort to prevent a problem that had never surfaced in over a decade of use.
- dspillett 4y agoNot the sort of safety issues I think you mean, but there have been some rather questionable behaviours from the current owners in the last year or so. A quick search for Audacity here or elsewhere will find the details.
- mb7733 4y agoI'll save everyone the quick search. They added really basic opt-in telemetry, and then removed it after an out-of-proportion outcry.
- swyx 4y agoi dont understand privacy maniacs. have telemetry in from the start, nobody bats an eye. add it later, everyone freaks.
- hutzlibu 4y agoSimple, privacy "maniacs" do not install something with telemetry integrated by default. So of course they freak, when it is suddenly creeping in, in something they trusted.
- tuckerpo 4y agoespecially if it's opt-in (which is provable since the project is entirely open-source) -- can people simply _not_ opt-in if they disagree with telemetry?
- eurasiantiger 4y agoIn the first case, intentions are clear from the start, so user trust can be built. In the second case, intentions have been hidden or they have changed, which obviously erodes user trust.
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- robocat 4y agoGood write-up here: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/07/no-open-source-audacity-audio-editor-is-not-spyware/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/07/no-open-source-audac... It wasn’t clear it was opt-in (although maybe the code was clear?). Either way, adding telemetry (especially to open source) is obviously going to cause a ruckus, so they obviously mishandled the situation.
- sitkack 4y agoAudacity segfaults all the time when I use it. Don’t make it sound like it is more stable than it really is. Security bugs are a subset of bugs, of which Audacity has many.
- r4vik 4y agoalso it would let you have a common target (wasm) for plugins so it doesn't matter if you're running on ARM/x86
- ahilss 4y agoOn the M1 Mac I actually measured lower CPU usage during audio playback on WASM compared to the native desktop version which uses Rosetta. I'm not sure if the slowness is due to Rosetta or a performance bug on the Mac port.
- codetrotter 4y agoSupposedly[1], Audacity 3.2.0 will be available as an M1 native app. Guess we’ll see then :) [1]: https://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=114242&start=10#p447244 https://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=114242&s...
- 0xedd 4y agoNiche hardware popular in the US alone? Mild shock.
- seydor 4y agoNah, we ll just run it remotely through Mighty app
- highwind 4y agoRelevant talk: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death-of-javascript https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
- pinato 4y agoThanks for the link, very good talk.
- cush 4y agoNo, Tauri!
- jijji 4y agoThe OP mentioned this is a part of Audacity, so hopefully you were being sarcastic, but you can already do apt install audacity if you want a desktop app, as it already exists in the form of Audacity
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