Audacity Forum

I know this is probably asking for to much Lol but I want to see what kind of feedback this one gets me.

Cloud based Computing is now becoming ever more popular with files being available across systems through online drives our files can now be available any where when we need them!

This can go any way. So far its not a necessity but its a neat thing to imagine.

Try to imagine this:
You can now save any project file to google drive service and pick up where you left off on another device or even a web based version of audacity or the USB version... The possibilities would rock... Start your project at home, work on it on the fly at work, at your friends house, or at a hotel while traveling or heck even using a browser version of audacity at the public library.


Not essential, but good idea to spark possibilities.

Implementing this probably would be a pain for devs Lol

Currently it is possible to upload an Audacity project somewhere on the Internet, then download it and resume working (http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Auda ... jects#move)

Working on the project directly from the cloud probably can't be done. It's not uncommon for streaming audio to stutter occasionally, and that is with just one audio stream in relatively low quality MP3 format. To simultaneously stream multiple high quality 32 bit audio streams would be far more demanding. Recording would be even more difficult unless the entire recording was cached to disk on the local machine, but that kind of defeats the point.

For the same reason a browser based version of Audacity is unlikely to ever happen (though have a look at Myna by Aviary http://advanced.aviary.com/tools/audio-editor )

It is possible to run Audacity from a USB stick (see "Portable Settings" here: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Preferences#stored )