Good video, very much worth watching despite the length. New UI will look something like this:

with an option for a more classic look.

Looks like an enourmous UX improvement too, and a rewrite to QT and eliminating a lot of technical debt will make development faster.

  • Zagorath@aussie.zone
    91·
    17 hours ago

    From what I could tell when I looked into it after a comment someone left on !nebula@lemmy.world, some people were very upset at the privacy implications of Audacity adding an update detection mechanism (which can be turned off, and which is not included at all in the default build if you build it yourself).

    • helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world
      10·
      16 hours ago

      Are people are actually upset about an auto update feature? A feature that has been pretty standard in programs for a very long time?

      I understood some of the upset when they added telemetry, but auto-update?

      • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
        13·
        14 hours ago

        Not even auto-update. Just auto detect updates. Then you go and download it yourself manually.

        Auto-update-detection meant that the software was calling out to a remote server, so they updated the TOS to reflect that, and people got upset.

      • Aatube@kbin.melroy.org
        2·
        3 hours ago

        (for package management, not weird concerns like “they’re adding an entire http library to audacity for this so they must be in the process of using it for something else”)