[smallerfish]

I really hope they have a big overhaul coming for Audacity. It's a powerful tool but the UI is (at best) severely dated. Tantacrul's initial analysis of Audacity's UX had me hopeful that there'd be rapid progress towards modernizing it.

[somrand0]

> [...]that'd be rapid progress towards modernizing it.

I misread this as "monetizing". almost snorted.

What's so bad about the UI? is it dated because of it's structure? or does it seem dated because of widgets (the style, the way it is drawn?)?

The super powered UI problem is not quite solved, unless you accept microsoft's ribbon interfaces as a solution

[smallerfish]

Tantacrul's original video was very good, if you haven't seen it already.

Here's a very straightforward example: zoom. The shortcut keys for zoom are ctrl 1/2/3, rather than ctrl +/-, or even just +/-. Further, the zoom options are in/normal/out/selection/toggle. None of those options will zoom to the full audio clip. Instead, to do that you need to look under "track size", which has the options "fit to width" (ctrl f) and "fit to height" (ctrl shift f). The CPO at the company where I work likes to say "if you do something differently from the rest of the marketplace, you need a damned good justification for doing so".

I get that Audacity has grown organically as a product over decades, and so its user interface may have preceded various conventions that have arisen over time in software, but it is extremely idiosyncratic.

[jrm4]

I've always found it awful compared to what I always go back to, even in a VM, which is Sony/Adobe Audition (formerly Cool Edit Pro).

The latter just seems much more intuitive when it comes to really basic cut/copy/trim/timeshift operations. Is there something I'm missing here?