There are still various UI glitches. Stereo > Mono mixdown is still missing. The ability to set Multi-View (waveform + spectrogram) as a default is still missing. It remembers my shortcuts now without crashing the program, but… THEY STILL DON’T WORK!
Is there a reason Audacity itself doesn’t seem to know about the update? I opened Audacity 4 expecting it to immediately tell me a new version was available, but not only did it not do that, even when I go to Help>Check for update it tells me I’m up to date. I would think, given what seem to be significant stability and feature improvements to a product that started out (let’s be real here) pretty dismally broken, you would be rushing to get it out to everyone using Audacity 4 and not just the handful who happen to be here on the forum.
Not only does the app appear unaware there’s an update, the download page on the website itself still points to 4.0.0. The forum appears to be the only place that has the actual link. Makes me wonder if it’s still beta.
What is the hardware requirement for version 4.0.0 and 4.0.1. I ask because I have a quite old but still functional Dell Optiplex 780 running Linux Mint and it seems unable to execute the latest appimages of Audacity.
Yea, right. Tried Audacity Vers. 4 and almost immediately deleted. Hated the way I couldn’t separate music movements from a single view. I really appreciate the ability to separate movements in music before I edit. So I got rid of Vers. 4 and later downloaded again.
This time, I can’t even get any files to populate the view. Why do techies seem to think that they have to make things so user unfriendly so they can justify their existance and why is Audacity trying to push everyone into the Audacity Cloud; I won’t use Microsoft’s Cloud, why should I use yours? I fired contactors/engineers for less.
Could you describe what you mean by this or what you’re trying to do (in more detail)? What is different in AU4 that is preventing you from working the way you did in AU3?
What do you mean by “populate the view”. What are you trying to do and how are you trying to do it?
I ask because folks here could help you out (that’s what we’re here for) if we understand your problem.
I tried to paste some music movements into the new version and no matter what I did, it didn’t work. It’s impossible to work on pieces of music, ie. improve the mix, if you can’t even place items into vers. 4. On version 3, it’s easy, you click open and go to the files to be edited and the program simply brings them up, each in its own window, so you can cut out applause, improve the mix etc. On version 4, I did the same-that is asked the app to open the files and absolutely nothing occurred. Also, I’m uncomfortable with having to work on pieces of music all on the same graphic - how do you save just what you want and not all that’s been discarded. That said, unless there is a simple answer, I’ll stay with version 3 where it’s easy import and edit music which is all I want to do.
Tom Friedman
11:36 PM (0 minutes ago)
to billw58
Hello billw58,
I tried to paste some music movements into the new version and no matter what I did, it didn’t work. It’s impossible to work on pieces of music, ie. improve the mix, if you can’t even place items into vers. 4. On version 3, it’s easy, you click open and go to the files to be edited and the program simply brings them up, each in its own window, so you can cut out applause, improve the mix etc. On version 4, I did the same-that is asked the app to open the files and absolutely nothing occurred. Also, I’m uncomfortable with having to work on pieces of music all on the same graphic - how do you save just what you want and not all that’s been discarded. That said, unless there is a simple answer, I’ll stay with version 3 where it’s easy import and edit music which is all I want to do.
