Adobe Audition Dark theme for Audacity

Audacity 3 themes
1

I love Audacity.
Straight-forward approach, simple & easy interface, but default themes are crap. Esp. at night.
High-contrast looks too alien. Dark theme looks too bright.

I do like the theme of Adobe Audition though. But I don’t like the complexity of the app.
There’s a theme for sale that looks like Audition made for Audacity, but I refuse, if I can make it myself.

So hereby :sunglasses:

How-to-install:

  1. Open Audacity, go to Preferences, Select Custom from theme menu. This way it creates a folder ‘themes’.

Win:
a. Open %appdata%\audacity\theme
b. Paste ImageCache.png there.
c. Click OK in Audacity (theme should now appear)

macOS:
a. Go to ~/Library/Application Support/audacity/Theme
b. Drop downloaded ImageCache.png there.
c. Click OK in Audacity (theme should now appear)

Linux:
a. Open ~/.audacity-data/Theme
b. Drop downloaded ImageCache.png there.
c. Click OK in Audacity (theme should now appear)

Special thanks to @mischamajskij for providing the decoded puzzle :smiley:

ImageCache.png
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2

Thanks for your great work!
but there is still a small improvement, the selection line is black now and it’s very hard recongnize
2021-08-13.png
i see you are using very dark red right now, it’s better to choose light red i guess

3

@ASDFGSWX
Weird, mine shows pink and I’m using my own template from above :laughing:

4

UPDATED THE THEME SO IT WORKS WITH AUDACITY 3.x!

Same instructions apply as in OP, but you need to put the .png and .htm file in a subfolder of Theme with the name custom, like this:

ImageCache.png + ImageCache.htm to download:
https://mega.nz/file/tIYSjIaS#jgMqKjIDCqH7iLmtWgywyxJnegizpZkXTM5E82QtCJg

Example of the theme on Windows (but should work fine on macOS and Linux too):

5

Saw some orange lines affecting the icons, so hereby the updated version of the link (hope moderator can copy paste this link to replace the previous one):
https://mega.nz/file/5QQAVY4Z#s-CHGzFgp2ajm8d26yZlfx29GLhGjJ0NdlxoBP_cs1s

6

Thank you so much for this! :smiley:

7

This theme is exactly for Audacity version 3.2.0 to 3.2.3
If you want to use it with another Audacity version, you can try to convert it using my converter.
https://github.com/vaclavmuller/AudacityThemeVersionConverter