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[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wait, what happened to Audacity?

[–] crimsoncobalt 32 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wasnt it something about data collection?

[–] Zangoose 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] tomsh 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

https://codeberg.org/tenacityteam/tenacity

[–] tomsh 3 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

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