ElmerJFudd Posted May 5, 2021 Share Posted May 5, 2021 "Audacity acquired by Muse Group News of the deal broke out by Martin Keary, Head Of Design at MuseScore. In his video statement, Keary claimed responsibility to 'manage Audacity in partnership with its open-source community'. The financials surrounding the acquisition have not been discussed, which is understandable. I"d feel silly paying for Audacity after using it for free for literal decadesâ¦" article [video:youtube] Quote Yamaha CP88, Casio PX-560 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnotherScott Posted May 5, 2021 Share Posted May 5, 2021 Obama spoke of the audacity of hope. I guess these guys have hopes for audacity. Quote Maybe this is the best place for a shameless plug! Our now not-so-new new video at https://youtu.be/3ZRC3b4p4EI is a 40 minute adaptation of T. S. Eliot's "Prufrock" - check it out! And hopefully I'll have something new here this year. ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CEB Posted May 5, 2021 Share Posted May 5, 2021 Audacity just acquired Radio.com or it was a recent branding change. Quote "It doesn't have to be difficult to be cool" - Mitch Towne "A great musician can bring tears to your eyes!!! So can a auto Mechanic." - Stokes Hunt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProfD Posted May 5, 2021 Share Posted May 5, 2021 I was getting ready to download Audacity to my newer laptop. Maybe I'll use this news as a sign to stick with using Ableton Live. Quote PD "The greatest thing you'll ever learn, is just to love and be loved in return."--E. Ahbez "Nature Boy" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KuruPrionz Posted May 5, 2021 Share Posted May 5, 2021 Pick a DAW and stay there, that's what I did. It wasn't Audacity. I tried it once, didn't need a new learning curve for something I could already do. Waveform has a nice free version that will probably remain free, I use the paid version to support them. Quote It took a chunk of my life to get here and I am still not sure where "here" is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Docbop Posted May 5, 2021 Share Posted May 5, 2021 That's good news for the core developers of Audacity they should get a steady paycheck now. This happens in FOSS world all the time and just means the engineers will work for the owners on Audacity and other projects the company has. I doubt Audacity will become a commercial product, but they probably will use some of Audacity code in adding on to Musescore. They might try doing like when Red Hat Linux when commercial they spun off a FOSS version called CentOS that is same except one revision behind. Audacity is a excellent small/entry level DAW that many students and people on a budget live on. I have friends in the voice over community and they use Audacity a lot. So good for Audacity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Davis Posted May 5, 2021 Share Posted May 5, 2021 Obama spoke of the audacity of hope. I guess these guys have hopes for audacity. Clever! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reezekeys Posted May 5, 2021 Share Posted May 5, 2021 I've never tried using it as a DAW, but for certain kinds of global edits on sound files I think it's fantastic and a real timesaver. E.g., converting a stereo file to two mono files - why have to launch a DAW, import the file, set up a track, buss to aux tracks, bounce, etc. Can't beat the price either! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doerfler Posted May 5, 2021 Share Posted May 5, 2021 I have been using Audacity for about 15 years now. It's fantastic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Schmieder Posted May 5, 2021 Share Posted May 5, 2021 I tried Audacity several times over the years, but it's been eons by now. They still hadn't addressed the core data integrity issues the last time I checked, so I found it 100% dangerous and unusable. I'm not sure how anyone can get along with an application that doesn't buffer anything. It crashed a lot on macOS, and bye-bye went my original source file. This was before Time Machine backups, so I'd have to go to older backups, maybe a day before if I was lucky. Pretty hard to train oneself to make an exception for just one application, to consistently remember to always copy the working file before opening it in the app. The lack of undo/redo was also a killer, in conjunction with the dangerous way it works with the file system. Quote Eugenio Upright, 60th Anniversary P-Bass, USA Geddy Lee J-Bass, Yamaha BBP35, D'angelico SS Bari, EXL1, Select Strat, 70th Anniversary Esquire, LP 57, Eastman T486, T64, Ibanez PM2, Hammond XK4, Moog Voyager Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doerfler Posted May 5, 2021 Share Posted May 5, 2021 I tried Audacity several times over the years, but it's been eons by now. Many things have gotten much better in "eons". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Schmieder Posted May 5, 2021 Share Posted May 5, 2021 Maybe so, but over the course of ten years, its core flaws didn't change, so I figured it was "artistic vision". Plenty of other products improved in leaps and bounds during that time. Quote Eugenio Upright, 60th Anniversary P-Bass, USA Geddy Lee J-Bass, Yamaha BBP35, D'angelico SS Bari, EXL1, Select Strat, 70th Anniversary Esquire, LP 57, Eastman T486, T64, Ibanez PM2, Hammond XK4, Moog Voyager Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piktor Posted May 5, 2021 Share Posted May 5, 2021 I'm with Reezekeys. Audacity has been a pretty handy tool for jobs that don't require a full featured DAW. I have used it to learn tunes. You can loop sections, slow tracks down without changing pitch, etc. I have used it to record, edit and digitize many of my vinyl albums too. Very handy for simple cut and paste and normalizing jobs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tunaman Posted May 5, 2021 Share Posted May 5, 2021 Yep, and mixing down tracks, creating click tracks, etc. I"ve been using a long time myself and find it to be extremely useful. The later versions are quite stable, from my experience. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElmerJFudd Posted May 5, 2021 Author Share Posted May 5, 2021 Audacity always seemed to be the default free alternative when all you needed to do was edit audio. It"s user interface is not glamorous, although it is reasonably feature-full. Would they be successful in monetizing it? Probably not, there are plenty of other free alternatives, and even more that give you a fully featured DAW for registering an email address. Quote Yamaha CP88, Casio PX-560 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricBarker Posted May 6, 2021 Share Posted May 6, 2021 MuseScore is fantastic and free as well. I can't imagine they'll monetize Audacity if they haven't done so with MuseScore by now. I've pretty much switched over from Sibelius. It may not be the be-all-and-end-all of notation software, but for day-to-day charting it's fantastic. Quote Puck Funk! Equipment: Laptop running lots of nerdy software, some keyboards, noise makersâ¦yada yada yadaâ¦maybe a cat? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doerfler Posted May 6, 2021 Share Posted May 6, 2021 Would they be successful in monetizing it? It's open source software, monetizing it would kill it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoken6 Posted May 6, 2021 Share Posted May 6, 2021 In case it's not obvious, Martin Keary is Tantacrul on YouTube, and has a number of entertaining videos on his channel. I linked to his vid on "corporate music" sometime back which I enjoyed. Agree that if moneti[sz]ation was the goal, MuseScore would have been the first to receive a price tag. Cheers, Mike. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zalman Stern Posted May 6, 2021 Share Posted May 6, 2021 The company around MuseScore does sell apps associated with the program plus I believe some sort of user content hosting or non-user content subscription service. (I bought the iOS app to display scores on an iPad.) Similar for Audacity is totally doable. -Z- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElmerJFudd Posted May 6, 2021 Author Share Posted May 6, 2021 The MuseScore app I believe is free but they monetized the website, right? As a Store for people who create with the app? Quote Yamaha CP88, Casio PX-560 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markay Posted May 6, 2021 Share Posted May 6, 2021 I have used both Audacity and MuseScore 4 eva on Windows. Found both to be excellent at doing what they claim on the tin. Are there better for profit apps? Sure, but as an amateur they do everything I need. This seems like a marriage made in heaven. Quote A misguided plumber attempting to entertain | MainStage 3 | Axiom 61 2nd Gen | Pianoteq | B5 | XK3c | EV ZLX 12P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theo Verelst Posted May 6, 2021 Share Posted May 6, 2021 I know Audacity from Linux for a very long time, and it's ok to have such as that from the beginning it incorporated a big number of existing processing plugins, IIRC the Ladspa Linux plugins. There's no problem monetizing Free and Open Source software, Redhat does that with a complete operating system already since a long time, Enterprise Linux being commercial, Centos being probably the biggest Cloud OS (From AWS) and Fedora a big (and also Open Source and Free) experimentation OS (I happen to use on my machines). The disadvantage from Audacity, for which there are alternatives that are also F.O.S. which can at leat on Linux be drawn in with one easy enough command, when I tested it while ago was that it can *change your audio*... So you load a file in, mess with it without changing anything, save it, and find out the copy isn't the same as the original. That's mission critical fail for all my main purposes. I haven't tested this recently, but an alternative which didn't change bits in my file fragments was "Sweep", at least on Linux (I don't know if it exists on W10). T. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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