[LAU] Re: FLOSS Audio editors on Linux: are they all dead(-ish)?

Am 29.05.25 um 12:02 schrieb Lorenzo Sutton:
> Hi LAU and LAD,
>
> It seems that (FLOSS) audio editors (not DAWs) are all either 
> dead/obsolate (mhwaveditor, rezound), in strange development states 
> (Audacity, Tenacity).
> Tenacity, the most promising (albeit with its audacity-inherited 
> idiosyncrasies) has a really annoying bug [1] which makes it take ages 
> to load [1] - IMHO a no go for an audio editor IMHO (plus its 
> multi-track-ness like Audacity makes it overload for a few use cases).
>
> The only more-or-less usable one at the moment is ocenaudio which is 
> not free software (and also has some UI quirks, but that's maybe 
> personal).
>
> I've been a fan of mhWaveEdit for its mix of simplicity and 
> configurability, but as an abandoned GTK2 application it shows its 
> problems.
>
> Is this kind of software not interesting any more? Are people using 
> DAWs for everything?
>
> Are people even using, or interested / committed in using Linux Audio 
> any more?
>
> As LAC approaches (unfortunately I won't be able to attend, even 
> though it's in Europe), why not try to spark some debate :-P
>
> Lorenzo
>
> [1] https://codeberg.org/tenacityteam/tenacity/issues/549
>

As you mention mhWaveEdit, I'm used it as well much. The thing I missed 
most was looping.

I've written now a replacement for it to match my needs.

https://github.com/brummer10/aloop
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