Tenacity – a multi-track audio editor/recorder
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·October 27, 2025Mashimo
lapinovski
that's a beautiful and very educational video. Basically how to listen user and how to implement feedback around user feedback.
I mean tantacrul's videos are generally super educational to begin with but I really liked this one tbh. Wish he could do this full time and had more frequent videos.
the only thing that I didn't liked the logo. I mean bleh. i hope they'll do something more nice to look at. that's my only complaint lol.
ktpsns
An audacity fork. Reason for forking described at https://tenacityaudio.org/docs/_content/Introduction_and_Mot... . Their own summary:
> at the primary reasons were attempts at adding telemetry and a new desktop privacy policy [by the new audacity maintainers]
Previously discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34835200
cookiengineer
Well, technically the reason for the fork was the implanted backdoor that was executing a binary coming from Muse groups server, hidden as telemetry and an update check. It's not a well built backdoor and the code is easy to spot, as there's not a lot of other http related code in audacity itself.
edit: Check the au3/src/update/UpdateManager.cpp, they're still not hiding this better after all that happened, lol.
[1] https://github.com/audacity/audacity/blob/8d6e45a9756e700b7f...
forgotpwd16
So, 4 years since the initial forks and 2 years since the Audacium merge, how Tenacity (basically Tenacity&Saucedacity&Audacium) compares to Audacity?
squarefoot
I didn't know it was still maintained. Just gave it a try on this laptop with Manjaro Linux + XFCE and noticed it both messes with the desktop panel toolbar making it rearrange and flash repeatedly for some seconds while loading and also when changing preferences, then doesn't correctly fit fonts into the dropdown lists in all toolbars. It appears to me it doesn't take into account that the list elements add a bigger empty space around fonts compared for example to buttons, so it considers them shorter and they're partially cut out. I don't have a GH account to properly report this.
evgpbfhnr
If you're curious about the legacy link being a 404, the correct link seems to be that: https://tenacityaudio.org/legacy/legacy.html
(found sniffing around https://codeberg.org/tenacityteam/tenacityaudio.org , this 404 was reported on IRC)
mulhoon
Does anyone see multitrack recording happening well in-browser?
Has anyone tried BandLab? Aside from the social slop and recent aggressive advertising, their recording app is super impressive, glitch free, low latency, easy to use and sounds great.
Or will this always be the domain of installable software?
Audacity had a 5 year plan on removing technical debt and overhauling the UI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYM3TWf_G38 (1 hour long video)
Will this be merged into Tenacity or are they going further apart?