Oops, snapd not snapdragon! On Wed, Sep 22, 2021 at 9:24 PM Nat Taylor <biob...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Snap has Audacity 3.0.2, if snapdragon isn’t automatically installed with > XUbuntu, it’s in the base repos. > https://snapcraft.io/audacity > And 3.0.4 is available in Flatpak > https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.audacityteam.Audacity > > > On Wed, Sep 22, 2021 at 8:59 PM Tomas Kuchta <tomas.kuchta.li...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Here is fairly unbiased description of what is going on with Audacity. >> >> >> https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/07/audacitys-new-owner-is-in-another-fight-with-the-open-source-community/ >> >> -Tomas >> >> On Wed, Sep 22, 2021, 19:06 Dick Steffens <d...@dicksteffens.com> wrote: >> >> > On 9/22/21 3:52 PM, King Beowulf wrote: >> > > On 9/22/21 14:41, Dick Steffens wrote: >> > >> Anybody using Audacity? I had to use a Win10 machine to do some >> > >> recording this morning. When I got home I went to copy the .aup file >> and >> > >> directory to my Xubuntu machine. What I found was there isn't a .aup >> > >> file and folder, but instead a .aup3 file. I went back to the Win10 >> > >> machine and tried to save as the old version, but that feature is not >> > >> available. >> > >> >> > >> From https://fileinfo.com/extension/aup3 it looks like this >> happened >> > >> back in March of this year. I have version 2.3.3. The Win10 machine >> has >> > >> version 3.0.4. Synaptic does not show version 3 on my Xubuntu >> machine. I >> > >> hesitate to download the Linux version of 3 without knowing what will >> > >> happen to my existing Audacity projects done with 2.3.3. >> > >> >> > > >> > > According to the Audacity wiki, audacity-3.x will read and convert >> .aup >> > > to .aup3 without issues. >> > >> > I see that. My issue is using audacity-2 with a .aup3 file. Can't be >> > done, and the reason is pretty obvious, since they switched to SQLite. >> > >> > > Personally I never bothered with aup. I keep it all as either lossless >> > > FLAC or uncompressed PCM WAV. That way, portability is assured. I can >> > > easily enough convert to other formats with either audacity or a >> myriad >> > > other tools. >> > >> > I decided to export the files on the Win10 machine to .wav, and then >> > import them to audacity 2 on my Xubuntu machine. That worked. I was able >> > to fuss with the audio a bit to my satisfaction, and then export them to >> > .mp3, plus save the projects. >> > >> > > Your Xubuntu may too old have an older wxGTK or other libraries in the >> > > repos that are not compatible with audacity-3.0.4. Compiling 3.x has >> > > become a bit of a hassle. >> > > >> > >> > It's Xubuntu 20.04, and I've kept up with the updates. >> > >> > There appear to be some concerns about Audacity being "incompatible with >> > the GPL license" as noted at: >> > >> > >> https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2021/03/install-audacity-3-0-0-ubuntu-20-04-flatpak/ >> > >> > Flat who now? Yet another tool taking over other, as far as I know, >> > perfectly good tools. Sigh. >> > >> > -- >> > Regards, >> > >> > Dick Steffens >> > >> > >> > >> >
