What is the difference between an app in AUR and and app-bin?

When looking for an alternative to Audacity, I discovered an application called “ocenaudio.” The app is available via the AUR, but when I search for the applications, two alternatives appear:

My noob question is: What is the difference between the non-bin and bin version of this application?

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Normally packages are built from source code and the -bin extension indicates a binary source. However, in this case they are both binary sources. I’ll file a merge request so there aren’t duplicate packages.

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Thank you for your quick reply. I appreciate the help!

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