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This is great. I need to do audio work this coming week and was dreading Audacity.
by sgallant 4mo ago
This is great. I need to do audio work this coming week and was dreading Audacity.
- throawayonthe 4mo agowhen have you last tried audacity? it's been getting friendlier
- amelius 4mo agoHow much work would it be to compile Audacity for the web? (I'm a bit behind on web technologies nowadays)
- patwie 4mo agoHas been done https://wavacity.com/ https://wavacity.com/
- Forgeties79 4mo agoAgreed but it’s still not a proper DAW and suffers from those limitations. It gets very rickety when you go beyond a basic stereo mix.
- rhizome 4mo agoAudacity isn't trying to be "a proper DAW," it's OK to be just be an audio editor.
- Kaliboy 4mo agoHave you tried Ardour? It's like a superset of Audacity.
- timc3 4mo agoTry Ocenaudio - I’ve used pretty much every audio editor free and paid for and this is my go to for a free editor. I also cannot understand why anyone would recommend Audacity.
- hootz 4mo agoOcenaudio is closed source, that may be one of the reasons someone might recommend Audacity over it.
- jrm4 4mo agoHehe ditto I get flak for this, but Audacity is my "proof" that GIMP's name is why people don't use it, not the UI. Like GIMP, Audacity's UI is awful, but people still use it. :)
- em-bee 4mo agopeople use gimp too. and i bet there are more gimp users than audacity. as for the UI, i don't get it. what's so bad about it? and how is this one better? i looked at both and ardour too. so far audacity is the only one that has a feature to detect silence and label it. it's pretty easy to use too. i use this to detect chapters and create a chapter index for audio books. last one i did this week took only a few minutes, and most of the time was typing the chapter titles into audacity. i could not figure out how to do this in ardour or audiomass
- darkstarsys 4mo agoI spend a lot of time doing this too -- cutting up band rehearsal tapes into songs and exporting all. As weird as Audacity's UI is, I haven't found anything better than it at this.
- jrm4 4mo agoAgain, try Ocenaudio. I'm old enough to have used Cool Edit/Adobe Audition. Similar flow to those.
- em-bee 4mo agoi tried it. i could not find any functionality to detect silence. also no way to label selections. or do i use regions for that? it says mp3 does not support regions. no way to export a list of regions with timestamps. i spent about 15 minutes trying to figure out the above. in audacity the whole book was done in 5 minutes. also, i really don't get what is supposed to be better about that interface. both apps have text menus with lots of functions, and you have to know what the functions do by their name. that makes ocenaudio no easier than audacity in my opinion. and it's not even FOSS.