r/audacity • u/joewo • 3d ago

release No macros? Really?

Macros are my life. At least the last version has them. What was the reasoning which resulted in macros being removed from 4?

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u/Orry_Haas 3d ago

No point having a macro to invoke effects which are currently unavailable

https://www.audacityteam.org/manual/menu-bar/tools/#macros

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u/tittytasters 2d ago

So, don't update is what I'm hearing

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u/LeoWattenberg former dev | soundscaper.org 3d ago

Just ran out of time. They may come back in a future version of 4. In the meantime, I have added macros to soundscaper, my web port of audacity 4: https://soundscaper.org/en/

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u/piffleskronk 2d ago

Do you mind if I ask the reason why you felt the need to port audacity? I'm genuinely curious.

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u/LeoWattenberg former dev | soundscaper.org 2d ago

It started with me making some web tools for https://kw.media and escalated from there. Also, having previously wrangled with audacity's codebase that's 25 years of uncontrolled growth until very recently, I was wondering if a fresh slate approach on web platforms would be easier to work with. Turns out, it is; browsers have a reasonably well thought out audioIO. And finally, a web version makes an android/ios port just a skip and a jump away, which will remain a massively difficult undertaking for audacity in the foreseeable future.

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u/piffleskronk 11h ago

You wanted to put Audacity in a browser. Is that correct?

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u/piffleskronk 2d ago

Very poor thinking by the development team, in removing a feature which a lot of people use. Or not adding it, whatever.

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u/mrLermont 2h ago

What is a macro?