tenacity(1)

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✨ tenacity(1) ✨

okay bestie, so this is the man page for tenacity — a graphical, cross-platform audio editor that's based on Audacity. i'm gonna walk you through it fr fr 💖

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

like, here's how you actually run it:

tenacity -help
tenacity -version

tenacity [-blocksize nnn] -test
tenacity [-blocksize nnn] [ AUDIO-FILE ] ...

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

Tenacity is, at its core, a graphical audio editor. but bestie, this man page is NOT the whole story — it doesn't describe every single feature or how to use the GUI, okay? for that, you gotta check the html documentation that came with the program, which should be accessible from the Help menu. what this page covers is the Unix-specific stuff, like special files and environment variables. iykyk ✨

Tenacity currently uses libsndfile to open many uncompressed audio formats like WAV, AIFF, and AU, and it can also be linked to libmad, libvorbis, and libflac to give you support for opening MP2/3, Ogg Vorbis, and FLAC files, respectively. LAME, libvorbis, libflac and libtwolame provide facilities to export files to all these formats as well. she's versatile, okay? 🦋

Tenacity is primarily an interactive, graphical editor — not a batch-processing tool. whilst there is a basic batch processing tool, it's experimental and incomplete. if you need to batch-process audio or do simple edits from the command line, using sox or ecasound driven by a bash script will be much more powerful than Tenacity. no cap, that's just facts 💀

📖 HISTORY 📖

okay so storytime, bestie, this is genuinely wild 🍓

In April of 2021, Muse Group (Muse) had announced that they acquired Audacity and would further continue development. Later, a new pull request was then made that would introduce telementry into Audacity. This caused controversy, but the pull request was ultimately not merged. The closest to telemetry present in modern versions of Audacity is only error reporting, where personal information is NOT collected. periodt.

In July of 2021, an update to Audacity's privacy policy caused controversy. It stated that the program was not suitable for children under 13 years old. This raised a possible GPL violation by. In addition, a new Contributer License Agreement also provoked further controversy. All of this sparked the need among Audacity's community to create forks. As a result, this program, like other derivatives, came to light in order to solve the wrongdoing that was committed by Audacity's new owners. iconic behavior honestly 👑

On Noveber 26, 2022, Tenacity development was officially restarted by Avery King, joining other Tenacity contributors and the lead Audacium maintainer to continue work on the project towards their first release: Tenacity 1.3. we love a comeback story 😭💜

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

here's all the flags, bestie — every single one:

  • --help — Display a brief list of command line options. literally a quick cheat sheet ✨
  • --version — Display the Tenacity version number. so you know exactly what you're working with 💅
  • --test — run self diagnostics tests (only present in development builds). like a vibe check for the build itself 🔥
  • --blocksize nnn — Set the Tenacity block size for writing files to disk to nnn bytes. fancy disk stuff, ngl 🦋

🗂️ FILES 🗂️

  • $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/tenacity/tenacity.cfg — Per user configuration file. this is where your personal settings live, bestie 🎀
  • /var/tmp/tenacity-<user>/ — Default location of Tenacity's temp directory, where <user> is your username. If this location is not suitable (not enough space in /var/tmp, for example), you should change the temp directory in the Preferences and restart Tenacity. Tenacity is a disk-based editor, so the temp directory is very important: it should always be on a fast (local) disk with lots of free space. fr fr, don't skip this 💀

On many modern Linux systems all files in /tmp/ will be deleted each time the system boots up, which makes recovering a recording that was going on when the system crashed much harder. This is why the default is to use a directory in /var/tmp/ which will not normally be deleted by the system. Open the Preferences to check. lowkey genius design choice 🌈

🔍 SEARCH PATH 🔍

When looking for plug-ins, help files, localization files, or other configuration files, Tenacity searches the following locations, in this order:

  • TENACITY_PATH — Any directories in the TENACITY_PATH environment variable will be searched before anywhere else. she checks here first, obviously 💅
  • . — The current working directory when Tenacity is started. yes, literally just where you are rn 🦋
  • <prefix>/share/tenacity — The system-wide Tenacity directory, where <prefix> is usually /usr or /usr/local, depending on where the program was installed. the classic spot ✨
  • <prefix>/share/doc/tenacity — The system-wide Tenacity documentation directory, where <prefix> is usually /usr or /usr/local, depending on where the program was installed. docs go here, bestie 📚

For localization files in particular (i.e. translations of Tenacity into other languages), Tenacity also searches <prefix>/share/locale. multilingual queen 🌍

🧚 PLUG-INS 🧚

Tenacity supports two types of plug-ins on Unix: LADSPA and Nyquist plug-ins. These are generally placed in a directory called plug-ins somewhere on the search path (see above). slay 💖

  • LADSPA plug-ins can either be in the plug-ins directory, or alternatively in a ladspa directory on the search path if you choose to create one. Tenacity will also search the directories in the LADSPA_PATH environment variable for additional LADSPA plug-ins. options on options 🔥
  • Nyquist plug-ins can either be in the plug-ins directory, or alternatively in a nyquist directory on the search path if you choose to create one. same energy, different folder 🎀

🏷️ VERSION 🏷️

This man page documents Tenacity version 1.3 — that's the one, bestie 👑

📜 LICENSE 📜

Tenacity is distributed under the GPL, version 2 or later. However, some of the libraires it links to are distributed under other free licenses, including the LGPL and BSD licenses. open source royalty fr fr 💜

🐛 BUGS 🐛

For details of known problems, and to report and issue, see: https://codeberg.org/tenacityteam/tenacity

like, if something's acting up, that's where you go 🙈

👑 AUTHORS 👑

Audacity Developers

Project leaders include Dominic Mazzoni, Matt Brubeck, James Crook, Vaughan Johnson, Leland Lucius, and Markus Meyer, but dozens of others have contributed, and Audacity would not be possible without wxWidgets, libsndfile, and many of the other libraries it is built upon. For the most recent list of contributors and current email addresses, see our website:

http://www.audacityteam.org/about/credits/

legends, all of them 🌟

made with 💖 from the tenacity team — this page is from tenacity(1), and yeah, that's the whole vibe. now go make some audio magic, bestie ✨🎀🦋

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