How We're Redesigning Audacity For The Future

Tantacrul October 3, 2025
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Welcome to my channel, a place dedicated to exploring mainly music... but sometimes other things too. Philosophy, design and reflections on contemporary culture may pop up from time to time, so don't say I didn't warn you. About me: I'm a musician first and foremost. I also have a product design background and I currently run two open source creation apps: Audacity and MuseScore.

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This video digs into the research and design that went into gradually transforming Audacity 3 - a free and open source audio editor and production app - and how we've built on that work to develop Audacity 4. SUPPORT Help me become a full-time creator so I can release more videos: https://www.patreon.com/c/Tantacrul You can also support me on Nebula using this affiliate link: https://go.nebula.tv/tantacrul SOCIALS https://x.com/Tantacrul https://www.instagram.com/tantacrul/ https://bsky.app/profile/tantacrul.bsky.social LINKS A talk I gave about open source design in Berlin earlier this year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12TJ-zTgiH0 Matthieu Hodgkinson’s talk on how he created our time signature & tempo recognition system at ADC in 2024 https://youtu.be/yMbewdnupwU?si=QXFup9F_0EXHQNlB CHAPTERS 00:00 - Sigh - another PR issue 05:13 - Who is Audacity for? 07:52 - The state of Audacity in 2020 11:45 - Technical debt 16:07 - The gradual transformation of Audacity 3 32:03 - Building Audacity 4 36:47 - Productivity improvements 44:10 - The new branding 46:48 - The final push!

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