Audacity updates and news

Greeny (No longer active) · February 05, 2021, 02:55:32 AM

What is this alchemy?!!!!

Thanks for the heads up - I had absolutely no idea this view existed!

WarpCanada · February 05, 2021, 10:51:17 AM

I wish the dark theme on Audacity looked as nice on Windows as it does on Linux, on Linux it themes the "non client" (title bar area). It would be possible to add this to Audacity with a little C/C++ GDI-layer coding, I should look into doing that as a contribution to the project.

Anyone wanting a quick tour of viewing spectrograms check this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WYw3qoTdU4

64Guitars · February 05, 2021, 12:21:23 PM

Quote from: WarpCanada on February 05, 2021, 10:51:17 AMI wish the dark theme on Audacity looked as nice on Windows as it does on Linux, on Linux it themes the "non client" (title bar area).

Actually, Audacity doesn't change the title bar. It's dark in my screenshots because I have my OS (Ubuntu) theme set to dark. If I set the Ubuntu theme back to its default, Audacity's mixer board looks like this:

So the solution is to change your Windows theme. There is a dark theme available in Windows 10 under Settings > Personalization > Colors. However, I don't think it includes a dark title bar. Fortunately, there are plenty of additional themes you can download:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop-themes-94880287-6046-1d35-6d2f-35dee759701e

You should be able to find one you like in there. Or maybe you can look into creating your own Windows theme.

WarpCanada · February 05, 2021, 01:29:13 PM

True, however some apps on Windows do not use the system theme and have their own. For example, I'm using Google Chrome to view this website, and it's title bars are totally drawn by the app itself and not by windows.

I am gonna turn on the dark Windows theme though and see where I get.

64Guitars · February 18, 2021, 12:13:54 PM

Audacity is currently running a short survey to help them decide which features to work on and improve. If you'd like to help shape the future of Audacity, why not complete the survey. It doesn't take long. There are just 13 simple questions which are mostly multiple choice. One of the questions is " How do you share the audio with others?" and it has options for Dropbox, OneDrive, Soundcloud, etc. I clicked "Other (please specify)" and typed in "songcrafters.org". Another question is "What kind of online collaboration features would be important for you?". I checked "Forums". I have no idea what kind of forum-based collaboration features they have in mind, but since Songcrafters is a forum, I'd be interested in anything they might come up with that could be useful to us in collaborating.

https://www.audacityteam.org/5-minute-survey-help-us-make-audacity-better/

64Guitars · March 17, 2021, 11:44:24 PM

Audacity version 3.0.0 was released yesterday (March 17, 2021).

https://www.audacityteam.org/audacity-3-0-0-released/

https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/new_features_in_this_release.html

https://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Release_Notes_3.0.0

WarpCanada · March 19, 2021, 08:46:22 PM

It's a completely amazing piece of software. I am thinking I'll fire up Visual C++ and get the tools installed to build it from source as I have some ideas for what it needs.

Update: I updated my Visual Studio 2019, and grabbed audacity and its dependencies and it was super easy to get it be buildable and debuggable on Windows, although the "CMake" tools are a bit weird and take a bit of getting used to. The instructions on the Audacity website make building this code super easy. If you aren't familiar with the C++ programming language and the WX framework though, I think this code would be pretty dense and hard to understand. If you do know C++ and wx (formerly wxWidgets), then this should be pretty easy to wade into.