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minus-squareSaintWacko@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up43·29 days agoWait, what happened to Audacity?
minus-squarecrimsoncobalt@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up32·29 days 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-up8·29 days 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-up6·29 days agoWasnt it something about data collection?
minus-squareZangoose@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·29 days agoIt was, the company that bought out Audacity added a bunch of telemetry to it
minus-squareSatyrSack@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkarrow-up16·29 days agoI have used this as a drop-in replacement, with no complaints. https://codeberg.org/tenacityteam/tenacity
minus-squaretomsh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·28 days agoYou’ve got to love the open-source community! If only the whole world worked like that.
minus-squareShareni@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·29 days 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.
It was opt-out telemetry IIRC
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
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