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[-] SaintWacko@slrpnk.net 43 points 2 months ago

Wait, what happened to Audacity?

[-] crimsoncobalt@lemmy.world 32 points 2 months ago

I believe they were bought by someone and eventually implemented some questionable practices. I don't remember the exact details, maybe someone else does.

[-] turing_spider574@lemm.ee 14 points 2 months ago

It was opt-out telemetry IIRC

[-] otter@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 months ago

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

[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 months ago

Wasnt it something about data collection?

[-] Zangoose@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

It was, the company that bought out Audacity added a bunch of telemetry to it

[-] tomsh@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Any good alternatives?

[-] SatyrSack@lemmy.one 16 points 2 months ago

I have used this as a drop-in replacement, with no complaints.

https://codeberg.org/tenacityteam/tenacity

[-] tomsh@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

You've got to love the open-source community! If only the whole world worked like that.

[-] Shareni@programming.dev 4 points 2 months ago

AFAIK everything was dropped in the end, and people went back to using audacity

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