Just watched the intro video of the fully redesigned Audacity, and haven't played with it yet, but it does look pretty nice on the surface. Anyone have a link to a current write up about why this new update is actually super bad?
https://www.audacityteam.org/audacity-4
AudacityAudacity ® | Audacity 4Flagship tour of what's new in Audacity 4.Replying to @liaizon@wake.st
Ohhh right, these people.
https://www.theregister.com/software/2021/07/20/open-source-dev-and-critic-of-beijing-claims-audacity-owner-muse-threatened-him-with-deportation-to-china-in-row-over-copyright/1033798
theregisterOpen-source dev and critic of Beijing claims Audacity owner Muse threatened him with deportation to China in row over copyright'Who knows how he may be received...'
Replying to @liaizon@wake.st
@liaizon short version: software was purchased by corporation who shoved a bunch of telemetry in and will continue to do so, probably.
Replying to @ajroach42@retro.social
@ajroach42 while telemetry in your audio editor is obviously really stupid and not wanted are there other big concerns you remember? It seems they are still releasing it under GPL tho the website and github something feels very fishy
Replying to @ajroach42@retro.social
@ajroach42 @liaizon It's run by the Ultimate Guitar sleazebags.
Replying to @be@floss.social
@be @ajroach42 I don't know anything about Ultimate Guitar
Replying to @liaizon@wake.st
@liaizon I don't, but from what I can tell they're gradually integrating other MuseScore-adjacent products.
“MuseHub is the official distributor of Audacity”
And this may bring some of the Dark Patterns over from MuseScore: https://gadanidis.ca/blog/musescore/
gadanidis.ca/blog/musescore/
Replying to @liaizon@wake.st
Dammit. Does a pre-takeover version still exist?
Replying to @tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
@tomjennings there were a few attempts at community forks: @tenacity being the main one