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 <[email protected]> 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 > > >
