HPR4766: Rant about Audacity 4.0.1

This show has been flagged as Explicit by the host. I have been using Audacity for long, as I'm an audiolover for a long too. When Audacity 3.x popped up saying Audacity 4 is here , I went for it. To get decepted. It is beautiful, really something you can call a NEW version, but it's incomplete. The old, loved and necessary features are not all ported to the new interface, and shortcuts are a mess to (not) work. Not a big thing, if they simply said so in their website , or named it beta, or release candidate, for a few more months, until the implementation of 1 or 2 bug fixes and 2 or 3 features of old being still present. Don't buy my opinion for it, or opinions on the Audacity forum ; try yourself if you're an Audacity user! (Are you already using the new one?) Hope you get a good show. Credit: Short music clip used, free license: Jazzy Abstract Beat_Chops, by Coma-Media, on Pixabay Provide feedback on this episode .

9/11/2026Duración no disponible

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Host Antoine discusses his frustrations with the transition from Audacity 3 to Audacity 4.0.1, highlighting missing features, broken shortcuts, and plugin compatibility issues despite the software's improved visual interface.

Idea clave 1The installer for Audacity 4.0.1 can be downloaded without Muse Hub for users preferring a simple program without unnecessary internet connections.

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This is Hacker Public Radio episode 4766 from Monday the 9th of November 2026. Today's show is entitled Rant about Audacity 4.0.1. It is hosted by Antoine and is about 4 minutes long. It carries an explicit flag. The summary is complaining of the free thing.

Hello friends at Hacker Public Radio. I'm here to complain about Audacity 4. I was opening Audacity 3 some 2 weeks ago to record a show for you. It's the last show you may hear here in the Hacker Public Radio. Audacity popped up saying there is a new version. Get Audacity 4. Then I went and downloaded without Muse Hub because I don't want internet things and connections only the simple program I am used to. Installed Audacity 4.0.1 and as I used to do, I uninstalled the previous version.

So only Audacity 4, no more Audacity 3 and I didn't even test Audacity 4. For my surprise, Audacity 4 is beautiful. Wow. It has a nice interface. Not significant changes for my use. Little edits recording this for you, but I can't fast forward or fast backward as I did with Audacity 3. The plugins don't get transported immediately like I had punch copy paste that the script I think by Nyquist plugins etc. And I could use Audacity 3 alongside Audacity 4 installs as stand-alone and does not affect the previous version, but I said if I have the new version, okay.

The problem is it's an incomplete version. I know you can feel it is stable, but Audacity developers, why launch a new version and call it the new Audacity if it's incomplete? You can recognize it. You remove you remove features or you don't have them implemented in the new way yet in the new interface you chose that's beautiful, but it's not a final version to tell it's a new one. You can say Audacity 4 without resources, Audacity 4, but keep 3. No, you'd say nothing. The website in this date 17th of October of 2026 and the website says nothing about if you want the full resources or get Audacity Audacity 3 and it should be said.

Uh these complaints are not only mine. In the forum of Audacity, I can also see people complaining as I have this problem too of shortcuts not working. I select a portion of a clip, press delete, and nothing. But I select again and press delete, oh, now it works, but I don't know why sometimes works or sometimes not. And I con figured the letter A as I did with Audacity 3 too delete a portion of the clip like the default delete and it does not work. It's a mess, but I have already installed it, uninstalled Audacity 3, lost all my plugins etc.

because I used to do it. I like the novelties new versions and get rid of the older ones thinking the new ones are in enough. And now I am recording this in Audacity 4 saying if you want Audacity, you may want to get Audacity 3 for now. You have been listening to the Hacker Public Radio Podcast at hackerpublicradio.org. Today's show was contributed by a HPR listener like yourself. If you ever thought of recording a podcast, then visit the HPR site to find out how easy it really is.

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