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YouTube video by Plain Schwarz Tantacrul – Achieving Excellence in Open Source Software Design #FOSSDesign

I've been in contact with them. Some of what I found is discussed in this talk (which includes footage of user testing).

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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 WX Widgets handed control to OS themes but went horribly out of date.

Devfest Strasbourg 2025 - Speakers Le DevFest Strasbourg est la plus grande conférence technique du Grand Est destinée aux développeurs. Elle s’adresse aussi bien aux étudiants, aux professionnels ou tout simplement aux curieux technop...

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!

About ASIO (Open Source license variant) Steinberg ASIO technology is available in open source form under a GNU General Public License, version GPLv3.

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...

PM:AM - FLUID FLUID is here: rooftop, indoor liquid-light visuals, friendly community with the best of prog & melodic techno.

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...

YouTube video by Tantacrul How NEW Audacity Fixes Recording #audacity #sounddesign #audio #podcasting #musicproduction #mixing

Audacity 4 update. I created this short to describe another really important improvement we've just included.

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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.

If you can get past the terrible logo, Audacity 4 looks pretty great Over 25 years Audacity has gone from simple audio editor, to a UX nightmare. If you can get past the terrible logo, version 4 looks like it might fix that.

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

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YouTube video by Musescore MuseScore Studio 4.6: New playback and engraving features, plus a new way to hide empty staves

Our new release: MuseScore 4.6 is out now! This is an enormous release. Have a look and let me know what you think!

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My new video - How We're Creating Audacity 4 - is now available early on Patreon. www.patreon.com/posts/how-we...

Next video out in 2 weeks: How We're Making Audacity 4.

Now that we're about 2/3rds way through development, I thought it would be a good time. A nice way to get feedback on ideas early. Runtime - around 50mins.

While we enter the final stages of our Alpha 1 release of Audacity 4, I thought I'd share this simple little improvement.

YouTube video by ADC - Audio Developer Conference A Fast, Open-Source C++ Loop Classifier and Tempo Estimator: New Tempo Detection Feature in Audacity

One of the developers on Audacity, Matthieu Hodgkinson, gave a talk about how he created our automatic tempo & time signature detection system at the Audio Developer Conference last year. They've just uploaded the talk which I've linked to below.

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Give it about 2 weeks. We've been finessing it during alpha (we're in beta now).

Behold, a nice little text editing widget, which lets you input special characters more quickly. Out in around 1-2 weeks (MuseScore 4.6)

Yeah, that's a biggy. Definitely can't stay as it is.