Finally! I haven't been able to use it due to problems with menus that stem from incompatibility with Wayland (...I think, it's been a minute). Been using Tenacity instead, which has been a decent stand-in, but it will be nice to be able to use the OG again.

[–] SatyrSack@quokk.au 22 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Wait, people want to use Audacity? I switched to Tenacity because I wanted to due to it having no slop or telemetry. I figured all Tenacity users were the same.

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'm out of the loop. Please enlighten me

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 20 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Audacity was bought by Muse Group and almost immediately implemented a "don't you rather want to save on our cloud service instead?" pop-up and IIRC telemetry. Tenacity emerged as the most active fork without that shit and they since diverged a lot from Audacity.

OTOH the resources of Muse Group made this huge rewrite possible. The level of pain between using wxWidgets or dismissing pop-ups is higher for wxWidgets for me.

Maybe Tenacity is willing to throw away their homegrown developments to start fresh with the new code base. No idea.

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 5 points 4 days ago

Oh, thanks. Seems like I have something to consider before jumping into the new version.

[–] MxRemy@piefed.social 1 points 4 days ago

That's why I switched too. I installed the latest Audacity on a work computer, after using it lots in the past, without knowing about the Muse group situation. The install kinda tricks you into also installing their Muse bullshit along with it

[–] starshipwinepineapple@programming.dev 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Im on wayland and don't recall having an issue with audacity since i switched to Linux over a year ago fwiw. It's been a few months since i did anything serious with it but a year ago i did initially record ~100 hours of audio on it for a project

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 1 points 4 days ago

There was something weird with the menus locking up. I tried the pacman package and the flatpak, and both had the same issue.

It was a known issue that was going to be addressed via the v5 revamp, but I can't seem to find the original issue. Maybe it was a Qt thing, I dunno.