Audacity Aquired by Muse Group

Tantacrul who has been working with Muse Score for a while now to improve their UX will also be working on Audacity. They also plan to hire some full time devs.<p>Source: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;RMWNvwLiXIQ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;RMWNvwLiXIQ</a><p>Well worth watching his other videos too, even if you don’t use musical notation software. Funny and insightful commentary on software usability in general.

Does anyone know what this means? The code is GPL v2. It has 126 contributors on github. The project doesn&#x27;t seem to use copyright assignment. What has been acquired?

My first reaction was &quot;oh no..&quot;. Audacity has to be one of the most beloved and widely recommended software of all time. It&#x27;s not often that an aquisition like this goes well for very long.<p>After looking at MuseScore and UltimateGuitar, however, it looks like they are also free and have a similar aesthetic to Audacity. Maybe this will work out after all.

Muse Group hires Audacity team is simpler and much better said, nobody can acquire Audacity.

I&#x27;m quite concerned about this. I use Audacity quite heavily and have for many years. It&#x27;s become an important part of my workflow. I&#x27;m not opposed to it in theory but after seeing how they handled Muse Score, I really worry about how Muse Group will attempt to monetize Audacity.<p>If anybody has insight into the plans, I&#x27;d love to hear them.

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This is excellent news! Looking forward to the lens of Tantacrul being applied to Audacity the way it was to MuseScore.<p>Wow, non destructive stackable VST effects <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;RMWNvwLiXIQ?t=773" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;RMWNvwLiXIQ?t=773</a><p>The levity and the pragmatic focus make a great combination.

How does one aquire FOSS software?

Read the comment from Daniel Ray under the article. In short, Muse Group seems to be planning to continue their established business model for Audacity and possibly other future acquisitions. That is, offering standalone open source software with optional paid cloud services.

Audacity lacks very few features IMO. Maybe a revamp on broken plugins and suport to drum sequencing. More than that will force the daw to change UI paradigm, a thing that will hurt badly in usability. The big reason Audacity is so successful is how easy it is to beginners to use.

If this means a better UX, only good things can come of this.

Audacity is some of the best software for ripping vinyl. Really hoping they don’t cut the free access

Maybe I missed it, but will it remain open source?

I thought it was open source

course of actions:<p>- go to github<p>- download all source code<p>- download last installation version ...<p>- say farewell to audacity ...

Audacity is one of the best open source products of all time. GOAT