{"slug": "tenacity", "name": "Tenacity", "category": "media", "category_name": "Media and creative", "description": "", "recommenders": 3, "commenters": 7, "warners": 1, "score": 2.902, "rising": 3.0, "first": "2025-11-03", "latest": "2026-09-03", "why": "that\u2019s why I use tenacity, the spiritual continuation of the original audacity.", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 3, "neutral": 3, "compare": 0, "warn": 1}, "spark": [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 3, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "that\u2019s why I use tenacity, the spiritual continuation of the original audacity.", "kind": "", "icon": false, "domain": "tenacityaudio.org", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://tenacityaudio.org", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Tenacity"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 792847280, "item_id": 49552955, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49552955", "by": "swed420", "date": "2026-09-03", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Here's an alternative for those unaware:", "excerpt": "> So even after the intense backlash Tantacrul saw on the GH threads, they went ahead and stuffed it full of telemetry anyway. Incredible. Here's an alternative for those unaware: https://codeberg.org/tenacityteam/tenacity", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Audacity 4.0"}, {"id": 792805600, "item_id": 49550350, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49550350", "by": "archerx", "date": "2026-09-03", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "that\u2019s why I use tenacity, the spiritual continuation of the original audacity.", "excerpt": "I feel you and that\u2019s why I use tenacity, the spiritual continuation of the original audacity.", "context": "", "use_case": "Quick audio editing", "switched_from": "Audacity", "story": "Audacity 4.0"}, {"id": 792792256, "item_id": 49549516, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49549516", "by": "Mashimo", "date": "2026-09-03", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Seem like they have a few commit every week.", "excerpt": "Someone mentions it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49549040 https://tenacityaudio.org Seem like they have a few commit every week. 32 Issues closed in a year: https://codeberg.org/tenacityteam/tenacity/activity/yearly Looks healthy?", "context": "", "use_case": "audio editor fork", "switched_from": "", "story": "Audacity 4.0"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 733029249, "item_id": 45814328, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45814328", "by": "LeoWattenberg", "date": "2025-11-04", "stance": "warn", "quote": "As of right now, I'd recommend Audacity 3.7.x over Tenacity", "excerpt": "After its inception, Tenacity unfortunately tackled an irrelevant, yet opinionated part of development first: The build system, together with any internal variables saying \"audacity\" getting replaced with \"tenacity\". As such, a lot of the work that's gone into it don't manifest to users, and merging any upstream changes takes needlessly long. As a result of this, Tenacity fell behind upstream a lot, being stuck somew", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Tenacity \u2013 a multi-track audio editor/recorder"}]}], "who": [], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["quick audio editing", "audio editor fork", "python retry logic"], "compared": [{"slug": "audacity", "name": "Audacity", "co": 4, "switched_from": 1, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [{"id": 733208208, "item_id": 45825513, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45825513", "by": "gpers0n", "date": "2025-11-05", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I'm most the one pushing all this forward, and I keep planning to do this because I find it fun!", "excerpt": "Hello! Indeed, I'm most the one pushing all this forward, and I keep planning to do this because I find it fun! I will take breaks occasionally, but I can assure anyone that I'll still be around. I have plenty of ideas regarding it too. I do want to mention the build system part though: indeed, there are trade offs of Tenacity's build system vs Audacity's build system. However, on Windows (and hopefully Mac soon), it", "context": "Tenacity maintainer", "use_case": "multi-track audio editing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Tenacity \u2013 a multi-track audio editor/recorder"}, {"id": 733010704, "item_id": 45813169, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45813169", "by": "gpers0n", "date": "2025-11-04", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "great to see it getting more traction", "excerpt": "It seems like Tenacity is getting more attention in recent days. Why that is, I'm not sure, but it's great to see it getting more traction! (I say this as a current maintainer! :D) In recent times, Tenacity 1.4 alpha 1 was released! This is the culmination of a months-long rebase effort off Audacity 3.7.5, bringing features like realtime effects, non-destructive pitch shifting and stretching, beats and bars support, ", "context": "", "use_case": "Multi-track audio editing and recording", "switched_from": "", "story": "Tenacity \u2013 a multi-track audio editor/recorder"}], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49548395", "title": "Audacity 4.0", "mentions": 4}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45718710", "title": "Tenacity \u2013 a multi-track audio editor/recorder", "mentions": 4}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48790898", "title": "Backon \u2013 Python retry (zero deps, circuit breaker, async native)", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {"neutral": 1, "warn": 1}, "2025-12": {}, "2026-01": {}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {"neutral": 1, "recommend": 3}, "2026-10": {}}, "quotes": [{"id": 792847280, "item_id": 49552955, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49552955", "by": "swed420", "date": "2026-09-03", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Here's an alternative for those unaware:", "excerpt": "> So even after the intense backlash Tantacrul saw on the GH threads, they went ahead and stuffed it full of telemetry anyway. Incredible. Here's an alternative for those unaware: https://codeberg.org/tenacityteam/tenacity", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Audacity 4.0"}, {"id": 792805600, "item_id": 49550350, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49550350", "by": "archerx", "date": "2026-09-03", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "that\u2019s why I use tenacity, the spiritual continuation of the original audacity.", "excerpt": "I feel you and that\u2019s why I use tenacity, the spiritual continuation of the original audacity.", "context": "", "use_case": "Quick audio editing", "switched_from": "Audacity", "story": "Audacity 4.0"}, {"id": 792792256, "item_id": 49549516, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49549516", "by": "Mashimo", "date": "2026-09-03", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Seem like they have a few commit every week.", "excerpt": "Someone mentions it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49549040 https://tenacityaudio.org Seem like they have a few commit every week. 32 Issues closed in a year: https://codeberg.org/tenacityteam/tenacity/activity/yearly Looks healthy?", "context": "", "use_case": "audio editor fork", "switched_from": "", "story": "Audacity 4.0"}, {"id": 792784641, "item_id": 49549040, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49549040", "by": "haunter", "date": "2026-09-03", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "There is only one actively maintained fork", "excerpt": "They haven't Just go the main homepage and there is a banner which leads you to buy the latest plugin https://www.audacityteam.org/ But hontestly nothing wrong with that imo > half a dozen forks popped up overnight There is only one actively maintained fork https://tenacityaudio.org/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Audacity 4.0"}, {"id": 780668497, "item_id": 48791781, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48791781", "by": "odie5533", "date": "2026-07-04", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I always used Tenacity raw", "excerpt": "Cool library! I always used Tenacity raw, didn't know about stamina! https://github.com/hynek/stamina", "context": "", "use_case": "Python retry logic", "switched_from": "", "story": "Backon \u2013 Python retry (zero deps, circuit breaker, async native)"}, {"id": 733029249, "item_id": 45814328, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45814328", "by": "LeoWattenberg", "date": "2025-11-04", "stance": "warn", "quote": "As of right now, I'd recommend Audacity 3.7.x over Tenacity", "excerpt": "After its inception, Tenacity unfortunately tackled an irrelevant, yet opinionated part of development first: The build system, together with any internal variables saying \"audacity\" getting replaced with \"tenacity\". As such, a lot of the work that's gone into it don't manifest to users, and merging any upstream changes takes needlessly long. As a result of this, Tenacity fell behind upstream a lot, being stuck somew", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Tenacity \u2013 a multi-track audio editor/recorder"}, {"id": 732932416, "item_id": 45808276, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45808276", "by": "ktpsns", "date": "2025-11-03", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "An audacity fork.", "excerpt": "An audacity fork. Reason for forking described at https://tenacityaudio.org/docs/_content/Introduction_and_Motivation.html#motivation-and-history-of-tenacity . Their own summary: > at the primary reasons were attempts at adding telemetry and a new desktop privacy policy [by the new audacity maintainers] Previously discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34835200", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Tenacity \u2013 a multi-track audio editor/recorder"}]}