Audacity audio-editing app no longer looks like it's from the early 2000s
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The FOSS tool for audio editing has a fresh coat of paint, and new features to boot
Audacity, a beloved open-source audio editing software tool, has just received a massive makeover.
For those unfamiliar with Audacity, it’s a 26-year-old piece of FOSS software that provides incredibly robust audio editing capabilities for the perfect price – $0 – making it ideal for independent musicians, garage bands, vinyl rippers, and college students who want to make a slowly, deliberately spoken foreign-language recording for a group project sound vaguely fluent - not that this vulture would know anything about that.
While an incredibly useful tool, Audacity’s interface has been stuck in the mid-aughts for a couple of decades now. That's changed with Thursday's release of Audacity 4.0.0. Not only has the interface been completely overhauled, but there are also a lot of under-the-hood changes as well.
The new UI was...
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