Download buttons

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1

You REALLY need to change the text on the download buttons on the homepage.

The button named “Download Audacity 3.6.1” doesn’t download Audacity at all but the Muse Hub, from which I am then supposed to download Audacity. This is basically trying to lure people into downloading software they don’t want or need, how do you expect people to trust you or your software??

I know that the plain text link underneath downloads Audacity directly but that’s both easy to miss and beyond the point. A button named “Download Audacity 3.6.1” should do just that and nothing else.

2

You really need to log such issues on Muse’s GitHub issues log where it will get greater visibility from Muse:

You need a GitHub account for that, but those are free,

Peter.

3

Thanks for the advice but I thought the content on the Audacity homepage was controlled by the people here and had nothing to do with Muse.

4

Muse own the entire project, which includes the Audacity website and this Forum.

Peter.

5

This button works for me:

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@steve

That orange buttton dowloads Muse Hub, from where you can then download Audacity.
It doesn’t do “what it says on the tin”.

It is the less obvious link below that says “Download without Muse Hub” that just gets
you Audacity alone. And that is what @Waiter is complaining about (and I am minded to agree with them), OK this text is a link - but it would be more honest to have it as a more obvious buttom IMHO.

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Peter.

7

It seem that you see a different page on Windows to what I see on Linux.

8

On Mac, the “Download” button points to
https://muse-cdn.com/Muse_Hub.dmg
All you can do after opening that DMG is install the Muse Hub app.

The text link points to audacity-macOS-3.6.1-universal.dmg
which I don’t like, either, since I prefer to download the version appropriate to my hardware (M1 or Intel).

9

which I don’t like, either, since I prefer to download the version appropriate to my hardware (M1 or Intel).

We only check user agent and that doesn’t contain any info on which architecture is being used. We may update that in the future when UA client hints are supported - Safari and Firefox don’t yet.

In theory, the universal binary contains both of the system-specific versions and only installs the appropriate one for your system; there’s no performance degradation or anything. The wrong version is simply deleted when you trash the dmg after installation.

10

Thanks. Good to know.

11

I’m on Linux too and the big orange button links to https://github.com/audacity/audacity/releases/download/Audacity-3.6.1/audacity-linux-3.6.1-x64.AppImage.

Interestingly, though, when I run the file downloaded from there I get Audacity version 3.1.3 (I have version 3.2.4 installed on my system and expected this one to be 3.6.1 as it claims to be).

Edit: scratch that. I tab-completed “./audacity” and an old download (3.1.3) came up. I’d have to chmod +x audacity... to make the new download executable. My bad.