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teilo | 2 years ago

Audacity, despite its weaknesses compared to commercial tools, still excels at batch processing due to its Nyquist plugin suite. The macro tool is finicky, but you can still do things that nothing else can in a batch, like trimming leading and trailing silence and then adding an exact amount of silence to the front and end of a file. You would think functions so simple and obvious as this would already exist in Audition, RX, SpectraLayers, etc., but no.

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atoav|2 years ago

Ffmpeg or sox can do the silence trimming for you on the command line. And it is totally reasonable to just have a script lying around that does that.

kzrdude|2 years ago

Audacity is also commercial, even if it's free and open source. That's because Muse is developing it and has a commercial interest in it, and their goals now (partly) govern the project.

For example, that also makes them vulnerable to "enshittification".

LWinterberg|2 years ago

Not really. Enshittification requires high switching costs, so users stick around despite thinking "yeah I should go somewhere else". With Audacity, switching costs are low. You either can compile the thing with the relevant features disabled, or you can just download an older version of the software and stick with that to the end of time if you dislike the changes a new version brings.

Even to the suitiest of corporate suits it's clear that the enshittification funnel (first it's awesome for users, then for partners like publishers and advertisers at the cost of users, then it's awesome for making money at the cost of everyone else) simply doesn't work with an open source program.

intalentive|2 years ago

I take care of that stuff in Python, it’s pretty straightforward.