I used audacity 20 years ago and the interface is still the same. That is also worth something.
replypeople use gimp too. and i bet there are more gimp users than audacity.
replyas 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
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.
replyAgain, try Ocenaudio. I'm old enough to have used Cool Edit/Adobe Audition. Similar flow to those.
replyHave you tried Ocenaudio (which is roughly the same as old school Cool Edit/Audition?)
replyFar more intuitive, I think. Keyboard shortcuts and cutting and pasting similar to what you'd get in e.g. Word.