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

On 29/5/25 20:02, Lorenzo Sutton wrote:
> 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

I use Audacity regularly and it works fine, version 3.7 is quite good.

Keenly awaiting v.4 as all older versions had UI issues on hi-res 
screens and the v.4 UI looks promising. I tried the pre-alpha but it was 
basically not working.

Tenacity is a long way behind in development and its main premise for 
existence, ie. telemetry, was dropped from Audacity in Linux at least.
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