audacity devs make a christmasfying PR to demonstrate how easy it is to modify the new Qt UI. builds included thanks to CI (linux example)
Are audacity still the good guys? Iirc the project was purchased by a company at some point and there was this whole tenacity fork thingie.
they were purchased by musescore in april 2021
a few weeks later, they announced that they would introduce Google Analytics and Yandex-based “telemetry”. After strong criticism by the community, Muse Group backtracked, emphasized their commitment to the GPL license, dropped their plans to include Google/Yandex tracking, and instead opted for a self-hosted solution for bug reports and update checks. Both can be disabled, and some distributions disable them by default.
in july they proposed and then backtracked on a baffling new privacy policy and said they had really overzealous lawyers that they somehow mistrusted lawyers doing so “out of an abundance of caution” so i’m still giving them one final chance here since that issue was resolved rather quickly (within two weeks, which is why i’m not absolving them and giving them a chance, but it’s been uneventful since 2021 so i think that strike’s gonna expire in a year, meaning the new year)
audacity has since gained a ton of productivity improvements, outlined in the video https://youtu.be/QYM3TWf_G38 that does have a conflict of interest
tl;dr: i still support audacity
receipts: https://github.com/audacity/audacity/discussions/889 , https://github.com/audacity/audacity/discussions/1353, and everything these link
Thanks for the summary!
Not sure, I moved to one of the forks that pulled out the telemetry and made an appimage available.
fwiw audacity pulled out the telemetry the same week they were planning to add it unless you mean error reporting and update checking
That’s good for them, the tool I have does what I need from it, and since it’s an appimage I don’t have to pay attention to updates. Thanks for the info tho.
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