Well, it IS ridiculous
Well, it IS ridiculous
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reminder that Audacity has been bought out by an investor and now has mandatory data collection and privacy violations and cannot be trusted. Delete it and use Tenacity audio, a FOSS fork
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This is news to me, thank you
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Welcome! If you want to read about it here you can, they supposedly backpedaled and "it's not that bad" but there is zero trust in those private owners.
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According to the arch wiki: Audacity #Tenacity_fork
In May 2021, after the project was acquired by Muse Group there was a draft proposal to add opt-in telemetry to the code to record application usage. As an alternative tenacity was forked by a group of volunteers as open-source software.
Doesn't sound like they actually went through with it?
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Doesn’t sound like they actually went through with it?
They did not. I use Audacity regularly on more than one platform. It collects no data from me. It also hasn't received an update in years, but still does exactly what it needs to do, and does it well.
That said, I hadn't heard of Tenacity until this thread, and it looks like I shall be migrating over to that anyway. Better safe than sorry.
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thank you for the reminder.
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Loved seeing that Codeberg link.
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now has mandatory data collection
What sort of data collection?
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None actually happened, and they just wanted to track which features were actually used to be able to see how/where to focus their efforts in audacity.
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So sad the development is not active. I hope it gets more attention
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I think of it as finished software. It's the MS Paint or Notepad for sound. No development necessary.
The only reason I've used it is because Adobe bought CoolEdit and started "developing" it, a.k.a.: Turned it into paid bloatware and changed the name to Audition. So, I found Audacity which is free, small, to the point and quick to use.
If you do need more features you'd probably be better off switching to something else in the first place.
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You just need a little Tenacity.
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Ah, the best software I only use once a year
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Noted.
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Apple needs to port Logic to Windows
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Ouch... Another project being Enshatterfied™ (I'm avoiding a swearing word). Starting from what version that the Audacity becomes so Enshatterfied? Here I have Audacity 2.4.1, before Audacity was bought.
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Enshatterfied™
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(I'm avoiding a swearing word).
But WHY are you? Are you afraid your mom will ground you or your parish priest will frown at you if they found out that you don't needlessly self-censor?
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Enshitification is a technical term and censorship of that word would mean you should avoid the people who are censoring it!
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The technical term is "platform decay". "Enshittification" is not the term to lead with if you want people not aware to take you seriously.
And this isn't that.
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