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Audacity 4.0 is finally out! (www.audacityteam.org)
submitted 3 days ago by popcar2@piefed.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world
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TL;DR this is a huge overhaul of the popular open-source audio editing app. The UI specifically has been the biggest overhaul, making it a lot more modern and friendly to use.

Hopefully, one day, GIMP will get some kind of update like this.

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[–] redshift@lemmy.zip 33 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I'll stick with 3.x, since they started using AI in 4.0 - or use Tenacity, of course.

[–] Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What AI? Did they do some sort of LLM integration or use LLM-spewed code?

[–] ghostpony@infosec.pub 2 points 2 days ago (3 children)
[–] Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The correct answer to my question based on the links provided would be "no". They used chatbot code reviews, which is dumb. It does not appear that they used LLM-shitted code or LLM integration. Providing separately downloaded plugins is another thing. Out of those 5 plugins, arguably only one is unethical generative "AI". One of them is a noise reduction filter, one a music track separation model (which is novel to machine learning afaik), one is voice transcription and the last is upscaling. Do you really think these are so terrible? Are you just against the entire field of machine learning? What specifically is your criticism of these?

[–] Crit@lemmy.wtf 11 points 2 days ago

So opt in plugin support, and some commit comments? Not even actual code?

[–] Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

What does 3.x/4.0 have to do with that? That was 3.x, and local too.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 2 days ago

What AI?

[–] Hakuso@scribe.disroot.org 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, the AI integration sent it stright to the bin.

[–] kn33@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

What are y'all on about? The only thing I can find happened years ago, uses a plugin that you have to specifically install, is open source, and which runs locally.

https://www.audacityteam.org/blog/openvino-ai-effects/