The video is great, and I’m excited for the new Audacity. But that logo/icon is an abomination.
this post was submitted on 04 Oct 2025
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I think the logo's supoosed to evoke a lowercase letter 'a' (for Audacity).
The video talks a lot about bending over backwards to not lose existing users. They could have kept a smaller version of the waveform between the earcups as an homage to the original icon.
It's a sperm/a ghost looking into a bowl?
It's def a change (that tiny, pointy, disconnected tail :|), but I guess it's a rebrand on a higher level. Either way it does communicate that the look & feel is/will be all new.
It would look much better rotated
Wasn't there some drama around Audacity not being FLOSS anymore?
No, Audacity is licensed as GPLv2+.
Audacity was bought in 2021 by Muse Group, and a few weeks later, they announced that they would introduce Google Analytics and Yandex-based “telemetry”. After strong criticism by the community, Muse Group backtracked, emphasized their commitment to the GPL license, dropped their plans to include Google/Yandex tracking, and instead opted for a self-hosted solution for bug reports and update checks. Both can be disabled, and some distributions disable them by default.
Still, a few forks emerged, Tenacity is the only one that is still actively being maintained. The last commit is from today, but their repository is at 16k commits, compared to 21k commit for Audacity, so it seems the two projects have diverged.
Tenacity is the only one that is still actively being maintained.
I’m glad they stuck with it!
Ragebait logo, 10/10
Still only going to use Tenacity but cool to know
I understand the frustration, but responding in a salty way like this is not classy. But, as said, I can really understand the developer here.
I disagree. Making shitty low-quality misinformation needs to be called out, especially since the 2nd guy disregarded the pinned comment informing the 1st guy as “damage control”
The reaction guy was only in it for the clicks and ad revenue, it’s okay to clown on a 🤡
Whose response are you talking about here?