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minus-squareSaintWacko@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up36·1 day agoWait, what happened to Audacity?
minus-squarecrimsoncobalt@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up26·24 hours agoI believe they were bought by someone and eventually implemented some questionable practices. I don’t remember the exact details, maybe someone else does.
minus-squareOtter@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·15 hours agoI remember reading an update which said that the company went back on most (or all?) the negative changes and it’s ok to use again. I didn’t confirm it myself, but that’s part of why the alternatives aren’t seeing as much development now
minus-squareAppoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·22 hours agoWasnt it something about data collection?
minus-squareZangoose@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·22 hours agoIt was, the company that bought out Audacity added a bunch of telemetry to it
minus-squareSatyrSack@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkarrow-up12·19 hours agoI have used this as a drop-in replacement, with no complaints. https://codeberg.org/tenacityteam/tenacity
minus-squaretomsh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 hours agoYou’ve got to love the open-source community! If only the whole world worked like that.
minus-squareShareni@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·16 hours agoAFAIK everything was dropped in the end, and people went back to using audacity
Wait, what happened to Audacity?
I believe they were bought by someone and eventually implemented some questionable practices. I don’t remember the exact details, maybe someone else does.
I remember reading an update which said that the company went back on most (or all?) the negative changes and it’s ok to use again.
I didn’t confirm it myself, but that’s part of why the alternatives aren’t seeing as much development now
It was opt-out telemetry IIRC
Wasnt it something about data collection?
It was, the company that bought out Audacity added a bunch of telemetry to it
Any good alternatives?
I have used this as a drop-in replacement, with no complaints.
https://codeberg.org/tenacityteam/tenacity
You’ve got to love the open-source community! If only the whole world worked like that.
AFAIK everything was dropped in the end, and people went back to using audacity