These are brilliant. Mambo no 5, lolol!
Free in London tomorrow?. Check out this techno event a friend of mine is hosting. Atmosphere is friendly as hell. Come along!
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🗓️ Friday 12th December 2025
⏰ 8pm – 2am
Green House, Forest Road Taproom, London Fields, E8 3RL
I should have been clearer - we had to remake them in AU4. It was one of the tasks I was most worried about.
Spectrograms in Audacity 4 are almost complete. Gosh, we're really getting there now.
Dancing in the disco, of course.
Millennial Irish! Remember rubbish nightclubs in the 2000's, which played the same music every Saturday? I'm trying to compile a list of the most commonly played songs during this period (eg. "I'm Gonna Be (500 miles)" by the Proclaimers). Throw some names at me!
I've been in contact with them. Some of what I found is discussed in this talk (which includes footage of user testing).
youtu.be/12TJ-zTgiH0?...
Yes, we have the option to follow your system settings.
I should also mention that our custom UI kit is now a framework (the MuseScore Framework) which other open source apps are beginning to use. I'm keen to continue developing that, because it benefits FOSS massively.
Accessibility, numerous controls, theming, icons, etc.
To do what you're asking, I'd likely just extend the theming so users can make their own and load theme profiles. That way, they could get what they want without us having to use native controls / themes.
It's possible but when creating cross-platform creative applications - I find it's best to rely on custom UI and theming. If you're going to hand off to an OS, there's an advantage to that, but also a loss of control too. WX Widgets handed control to OS themes but went horribly out of date.
I'll be giving a keynote talk about Audacity / MuseScore and open source design in Strasbourg next Thursday, 27th November. Last talk of the year.
devfest.gdgstrasbourg.fr/speakers
That's going in the fan art library!
One of the last major features to port from Audacity 3 to Audacity 4 - label tracks. This feature is a monster... but we're almost there.
2. I'll be in the US for the next few days - roving around PA, Baltimore, NY, etc. Can anyone recommend a dance / rave event happening between Sunday, 2 Nov and Wednesday 5th? Not ideal dates, I know!
1. The video I'm currently working on covers the pretty large subject of dance music (EDM, electronic music, etc). As part of this, I'm roving around a lot to soak up experiences outside my comfort zone of London, Brussels, Paris & Berlin.
YES!
Not to mention MuseScore Studio also!
Although Audacity was always going to have ASIO support (via a more complex route), this move from Steinberg has just made it a lot simpler. It's a great thing to see.
www.steinberg.net/developers/a...
For anyone in London not busy tomorrow, my favourite dance music promotion, PM:AM, is on. Quite unique melodic, progressive techno.
The community is the best part about it tho. Incredibly friendly, so if going solo, you'll be welcomed!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pmam-fluid...
Audacity 4 update. I created this short to describe another really important improvement we've just included.
youtube.com/shorts/qzoQZ...
Not right away - but it's on our roadmap for sure.
Nope.
Since the reaction to our own work is v. positive, my communications were fine. I gave the branding a fair shake - staying neutral (you can't trick people into liking a logo). The reactions help me initiate conversations internally. I don't think I could have done it much better.
Fun times. It's going to be a busy week 🙂
For those wondering, this is exactly the reason I wanted to soft-launch the branding: to give me time to deliver the feedback to the creators. Beyond that, I'm incredibly pleased by the reaction to my own team's work.
www.theverge.com/news/792368/...
We'll see with user-testing but I doubt they will prove to be confusing for most. And if they are, it will be a momentary confusion. If I'm wrong, we'll change it.
lol, I'm well aware. One comment I particularly loved:
Possible slogans underneath new logo: "Pro audio tools from conception to delivery", "Fertile grounds for your audio", "From waveform to lifeform".
What paid feature am I announcing?
New video is OUT! - How We're Building Audacity 4
youtu.be/QYM3TWf_G38?...
Our new release: MuseScore 4.6 is out now! This is an enormous release. Have a look and let me know what you think!
youtu.be/J2gY9CbMuoI?...
My new video - How We're Creating Audacity 4 - is now available early on Patreon. www.patreon.com/posts/how-we...
