 Well over a year ago, there was a lot of hubbub on the internet when Muse Group bought Audacity and Not only were people upset that Audacity was being purchased But Muse Group kind of bungled the whole thing where they had some terms of service stuff They started putting in telemetry and all this Stuff that just kind of pissed a lot of people in the open-source community off and it spawned a whole bunch of forks and there was high drama for a long long period of time around the purchase and There were also some people who had some hope that now that Audacity had some actual financial support that there would be some Changes in the direction that Audacity had been going in because Audacity Whether you like it or not kind of had the sense that it was very stale The interface was really old It used a lot of outdated Libraries and things like that that just either weren't being updated anymore or had to be forked because they weren't being maintained anymore There is a lot of stuff in a very old cumbersome code base that people had hopes would change once it had a more staunch level of support from an actual corporation so there was a lot of drama there was some hope and Here we are a year and almost a half later because it was bought in May of 2021 and what I thought I would do today is kind of take a look at what audacity looks like now and See if there has actually been any changes because there like I said was some hope that when Muse group took over audacity that there would be some Change and for good not just for bad. So let me show you what audacity looks like now This is what audacity looks like and if you are familiar at all with what audacity look like before they're purchased You'll know that it looks exactly the same a year and a half later This is what audacity looks like now personally Everyone knows that I'm very picky when it comes to what my programs look like I want them to be well designed and That's kind of your universal over all of the applications that I use The thing is is that I was never really that big of a hater when it comes to this interface, right? Maybe it's because this is what audacity has always looked like right there was no period of time where It ever looked any better than this so as long as it didn't get any worse. I'm perfectly happy So that it stayed the same hasn't really been a problem for me. I still find it useful I still use it for every video that I make I always record my audio separately so I always use audacity for everything and It still works just as well as it has For years and years That doesn't mean that there aren't still problems there are and I'll talk about those in a minute But for the most part is still just as functional despite They're not being very many updates for the good over the last year and a half so let's talk about some of the things that have changed and specifically one thing that has changed so there has been a Change in the way they do tracks in audacity. So there used to be a Grabber tool so if you went up here to these tools up here There used to be a tool that allowed you to drag your tracks all around right and you could use it via Keybinding however you wanted to use it that is now gone Now the only way to drag your tracks is by dragging the title of the track which is here now Obviously, I can't show you this because I'm using audacity, but you click here And then you can drag it now in some ways that works better Because it's always available to you no matter what tool you're using But it was very confusing for me when they first introduced that because I was so used to using the grabber tool So that's one thing that they've changed in the last year one thing that hasn't changed is The fact that you still cannot as far as I'm aware in any distros repose Find a version 3.0 or higher version of audacity So if you're on flat pack or snap or any place like that you can get version 3.0 of the audacity It's like a 3.01 or whatever happens to be it's a little bit higher than three now But the point is is that like arch Ubuntu anything based on those distros they all are still using Audacity version 2.0 something and the reason why is because after 3.0 They started putting in that telemetry and a lot of distributions just won't include a newer version of audacity. So what's happening here is that there is a Fragmentation over what version of audacity a lot of people are using so if you're using it from a repo that was included with your distro You're using an older version of a destiny now. The thing is is that you're not going to notice a lot of changes However, there is one big change version 3.0 introduced a new file format and that new file format is Incompatible with older versions of audacity. So I found myself needing to use a Flat pack anytime I go to a different distribution because I need that new file format all of my Files that I've saved for every video that I've made are in that new file format. So because that's true I haven't been able to Download audacity from any distros reposed in quite a while And I think a lot of people are probably like that So if you ever try out version 3.0 or through whatever it is of audacity and you start savings and files that way You're going to be forever locked into using 3 plus when it comes to actually being able to read those files. So that's the situation I've been in so that's obviously the biggest change that 3.0 plus has brought to audacity now the thing is is that a lot of people here have expressed disappointment that there hasn't been some movement on improvement for audacity and I'm Fairly sympathetic towards that viewpoint because it has been well over a year and there hasn't been a lot of Noise when it comes to what they're doing when it comes to maybe a redesign or new features or any of that stuff It feels like it's very much where it was a year and a half ago before the purchase of audacity by Muse group now It can be argued that that's perfectly fine But it can also be argued that the only thing they've done with it in a year and a half is actually make it worse Because of telemetry and the way they do their development now with developer agreements and things like that So there is an argument to be made that is actually in a worse position now than it was a year and a half ago And I would also be sympathetic towards that argument So audacity is in a weird place right now It has been purchased by a corporation that has money and is supposedly putting some effort into Improving it, but we haven't seen any improvement yet. It's not really So that is the state of audacity a year and a half after their acquisition by Muse group And I just thought I would kind of look in on it even though I still use it every day but I wanted to kind of remind people that that thing happened and We really haven't seen much change at least for the good when it comes to audacity So that's it for this video if you have thoughts on audacity or anything else You can leave those in the comment section below you can follow me on Twitter at Linuxcast You can follow me on masses on our odyssey those links will be in the video description Just blow the like button if you could hit that like button it really helped me out It does help the channel Amazingly so please do that if you can if you like the video if you haven't subscribed yet You should hit the subscribe button because I do produce Linux content pretty much every day of the week And it's very good levels of good, so you should definitely check it out You can support me on patreon at patreon.com Slash the linux cast just like all these fine people if you want to support me a year in advance You can do so and you can save yourself 10% Thanks to everybody who does support me on patreon youtube you guys are all amazing people and without you The channel just would not be anywhere near where it is right now. 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