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Published — 3 October 2025 ⏭ Tantacrul

How We Designed Audacity 4

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This video - about the creation of Audacity 4 - delves into our research and design process, including how we spent years gradually transforming Audacity 3. Audacity is a free and open source audio editor and production app.

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LINKS
A talk I gave about open source design in Berlin earlier this year:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12TJ-zTgiH0

Matthieu Hodgkinson’s talk on how he created our time signature & tempo recognition system at ADC in 2024
https://youtu.be/yMbewdnupwU?si=QXFup9F_0EXHQNlB

CHAPTERS

00:00 - Sigh - another PR issue
05:13 - Who is Audacity for?
07:52 - The state of Audacity in 2020
11:45 - Technical debt
16:07 - The gradual transformation of Audacity 3
32:03 - Building Audacity 4
36:47 - Productivity improvements
44:10 - The new branding
46:48 - The final push!
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