He made a very in-depth video on Audacity back when the announcement was first made. Martin Keary, a former Canonical designer responsible for MuseScore, an open-source music notation software also owned by Muse Group, will oversee Audacity at Muse Group.ĭespite the design experience, Keary is probably best known for his YouTube channel Tantacrul. For now, though, it seems that not only is Audacity in good hands, but that it might be finally getting that design refresh it desperately needs. And if the opposite comes true, there's always GitHub's fork button. Audacity 'scared and excited' to be bought and brought under Muse Group's roof, promises to stay free and open sourceįrom what I've seen over the last two months, Muse Group seems to have its heart in the right place.'A massive middle finger': Open-source audio fans up in arms after Audacity opts to add telemetry capture.Audacity's new management hits rewind on telemetry plans following community outrage.The Audacity: Audio tool finds new and exciting ways to annoy contributors with a Contributor License Agreement.
There may be some paid external features down the road – think cloud storage and the like, not features within the app – but for now the main plan seems to be improving Audacity. Enter Muse GroupĪs The Register reported earlier this year, Audacity was acquired in May by the Muse Group, which is the company behind Ultimate Guitar, MuseScore, and a few other music-related projects.Īcquired is an interesting word, especially where the GPLv2 is concerned, but it seems to amount to "we're going to help make this awesome project more awesome" – which is an interesting business decision. This approachable quality, along with the astounding level of support Audacity provides, is, I think, the reason for its success.Īudacity's success is impressive too – it has been downloaded over 200 million times. Audacity, on the other hand, has a UI that makes sense in relation to other applications rather than to physical mixers in a recording studio. Both Ardour and Qtractor are great, but the learning curve is steep if you don't understand the studio recording gear metaphor used as the basis of the user interface.
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