The Story Behind Audacity

Why HN readers recommended it

HN recommends it during the Muse Group acquisition controversy for its funny, pragmatic take on usability and open source stewardship.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Tantacrul

Topic

audacity open source project

Format

commentary

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

7

Recommendation years in dataset

2021–2023

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• 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. Source: [VIDEO] Well worth watching his other videos too, even if you don’t use …

• If anyone's curious, here are Tantacrul's entertaining videos on MuseScore and designing MuseScore's new font, and the Audacity video from yesterday: [LINK] [LINK] [VIDEO]

• This is excellent news! Looking forward to the lens of Tantacrul being applied to Audacity the way it was to MuseScore. Wow, non destructive stackable VST effects [VIDEO] The levity and the pragmatic focus make a great combination.