Audacity

“it’s not very good, crashes often and has been acquired by a company pushing some online subscription”

“it was too good of a software to let rot in technical debt and code spaghetti”

“It was my go-to for light audio work like trimming a sample, for being free and easy to use for exactly that.”

“It looks like a well crafted UI, with care and attention to detail.”

“I remember them acquiring Audacity was a huge mess when it happened due to them introducing telemetry. Never used Audacity since then.”

“all of these UI improvements are carbon copies from conventional DAWs or video editors, invented 30 or so years ago”

“I gave up after 20 minutes of fiddling and used something else that saw the microphone immediately.”

“doesn't have light mode available and the only option to have it is to switch back to the old UI”

“I've given up on Audacity because it hasn't kept up technically with how a typical home studio Linux system does audio”

“it has now displaced many commercial applications in the same niche”

“It is plain unnecessary risk, does not matter that the original author is trusted, still can be hacked.”

“they're updating the much dated UX from being stuck in the 90's and are making great strides on the app”

“The direction Audacity has been heading now is ok, but it's not for me.”

“I was so happy with it. Has been my go to audio editor for, goodness feels weird to say, decades now”

“there seem to be some very significant usability improvements in here”

“it's so awesome to have an open source Qt based audio editor on KDE Plasma that does not look like shit”

“they apparently hired a competent team and listened to user feedback”

“I love it, it's an incredibly robust tool. But I would not use it like a fully fledged DAW.”

“Opened it the other day and was greeted with a welcome screen that advertised some online service”

“The new editing features will be pretty useful for sound design.”

“They haven't enshittified it (from my perspective as a user anyway).”

“I always thought audacity was great, and still prefer its workflow to slow tools or logic.”

“Very disappointed to see a program I remembered fondly for its native-feeling interface and functional, wholegrain feeling turned into whatever this is.”

“they got some backlash after they added telemetry features and half a dozen forks popped up overnight”

“especially the new UI that does not look like it was forced through some scrum pipeline”

“Audacity and Avidemux have allowed me to look much more skilled in media editing than I have any right to claim”

“this one is so concise and fast and to the point, I'm very impressed”

“I love audacity but most of time I use some same steps to polish my audio”

“which also has the necessary controls to measure time between transitions in the waveformms”

“As weird as Audacity's UI is, I haven't found anything better than it at this.”

“so far audacity is the only one that has a feature to detect silence and label it”

“it’s still not a proper DAW and suffers from those limitations. It gets very rickety when you go beyond a basic stereo mix.”

“Audacity for audio makes for an incredibly powerful, 100% FOSS media creation stack”

“Half of those are not good enough to inspire creativity in a child, because they are so cumbersome to use.”

“It took basically a corporate control for Audacity to make its' difficult transition to a better design from its' mediocre one.”

“Tenacity was missing some of Audacity's best new features such as real-time effects”

“I'd recommend Audacity 3.7.x over Tenacity, as Audacity 3.x has been in maintenance mode pretty much since 3.6”

“I just need simple post-production tools after rendering out of my DAW and the old audacity does the trick.”

“I guess it could be improved by using and verifying signatures, but it seems pretty on point for a standard windows software auto update feature”

“the implanted backdoor that was executing a binary coming from Muse groups server, hidden as telemetry and an update check”