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by sgallant20 hours ago |
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upvoteby timc319 hours ago|
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Try Ocenaudio - I’ve used pretty much every audio editor free and paid for and this is my go to for a free editor.

I also cannot understand why anyone would recommend Audacity.

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upvoteby hootz17 hours ago|
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Ocenaudio is closed source, that may be one of the reasons someone might recommend Audacity over it.
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upvoteby jrm417 hours ago|
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Hehe ditto

I get flak for this, but Audacity is my "proof" that GIMP's name is why people don't use it, not the UI.

Like GIMP, Audacity's UI is awful, but people still use it. :)

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upvoteby Jaxan12 hours ago|
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I used audacity 20 years ago and the interface is still the same. That is also worth something.
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upvoteby em-bee16 hours ago|
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people use gimp too. and i bet there are more gimp users than audacity.

as for the UI, i don't get it. what's so bad about it? and how is this one better? i looked at both and ardour too. so far audacity is the only one that has a feature to detect silence and label it. it's pretty easy to use too. i use this to detect chapters and create a chapter index for audio books. last one i did this week took only a few minutes, and most of the time was typing the chapter titles into audacity. i could not figure out how to do this in ardour or audiomass

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upvoteby darkstarsys7 hours ago|
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I spend a lot of time doing this too -- cutting up band rehearsal tapes into songs and exporting all. As weird as Audacity's UI is, I haven't found anything better than it at this.
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upvoteby jrm42 hours ago|
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Again, try Ocenaudio. I'm old enough to have used Cool Edit/Adobe Audition. Similar flow to those.
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upvoteby jrm42 hours ago|
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Have you tried Ocenaudio (which is roughly the same as old school Cool Edit/Audition?)

Far more intuitive, I think. Keyboard shortcuts and cutting and pasting similar to what you'd get in e.g. Word.

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upvoteby throawayonthe20 hours ago|
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when have you last tried audacity? it's been getting friendlier
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upvoteby amelius19 hours ago|
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How much work would it be to compile Audacity for the web?

(I'm a bit behind on web technologies nowadays)

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upvoteby Forgeties7919 hours ago|
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Agreed but it’s still not a proper DAW and suffers from those limitations. It gets very rickety when you go beyond a basic stereo mix.
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upvoteby Kaliboy19 hours ago|
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Have you tried Ardour? It's like a superset of Audacity.
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