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

On 5/29/25 06:02, 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

Why isn't Audacity being considered FLOSS on Linux?

https://github.com/audacity/audacity

I recall some controversy, but the repo still shows current activity, a 
release earlier this year, and a GPL2 license.

Maybe part of the issue is some lessened demand for basic audio editing 
separate from other things, like editing in a more capable DAW, editing 
in a video NLE, etc?
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