Hello,
I have been using Audacity since 2015 on an almost daily basis.
I was quite happy till the Legacy Macro stuff was introduced.
Since then it got better and worse.
A lot of new cool stuff is really nice to see.
But the stuff that matters most for me has suffered.
#1 Longer loading times. Not so bad.
I know. Bigger program, more ressources, yadda, yadda.
#2 Legacy Output stuff.
#3 Older versions automatically detected the Audio frequency / Sampling rate.
when I did a conversion from a quiet 16 or 24 bit file.
48 was converted to 48.
96 to 96 and so on.
I hoped in future updates the automatic bitrate detection would
also appear. It never did. Instead the automatic detection
for Audio Frequency stopped “working”.
I know, I can do this and that and a little bit more here and there
and everywhere.
I come to realise that there are more and more trade-offs.
Good feature A gets introduced, therefore good old feature B must suffer.
I’ve used 2 or 3 audio programs in my lifetime.
I’ve never experienced so much negative change.
So I am asking at this point:
Will future versions maybe not be able to do Macros anymore
but you get a fancy Autotune as an exchange.
There was a version where simple Macros were not possible.
I know that writing this stuff is hard and a lot of team effort is made.
But I feel less like a user and more like a Beta Tester.
Is there an argument to be made to downgrade stuff that worked before?
Giving me reigns for stuff that I never asked?