Audacity 3 privacy concerns

[tom95521]

User beware if you upgrade after 3.0.2. I hope the software gets forked into an open source project.

https://github.com/audacity/audacity/discussions/1225

https://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=70&t=118977#p429730

https://www.audacityteam.org/about/desktop-privacy-notice/

Tom

 

[rosy]

Hi Tom

That's an interesting subject. I followed your links & read what was going on.

I've used Audacity since 2007 & can't live without it, so to speak. My current version is 2.4.2 so you can guess how long it is since I actually went onto the Audacity site or forum. Reading between the lines, IMO Audacity are just following the recent legislation that has appeared whereby companies have to advise a user of their data collection policy & usually give you the option of what you allow them to collect. I'm quite happy with 2.4.2 & have no intention of upgrading in the near future. The amout of work I'm producing now is a fraction of what I've done in the past.

I also believe that many companies who sell sound editing software would like to see Audacity disappear, as you know it's free & I for one wouldn't dream of buying sound editing software while Audacity is freely available.

Thanks for bringing it to our attention

Cheers Rosy.

 

[tom95521]

Hi Rosy,

I'm not a heavy user of audacity but I like to keep my software updated. I have been testing another free audio editor. It's Ocenaudio (Win/Mac/Linux) and so far I really like the simple interface and export options. It also works great to extract audio from video files. Installed as a portable app during testing.

There is a new fork of audacity that I will be monitoring. I think it's still too early to determine if this will be the one to replace the old audacity. So far no binary builds from this fork as far as I can tell.
https://github.com/temporary-audacity/audacity#readme

Tom

[rosy]

Hi Tom

I'm afraid all that is above my pay grade, so to speak. I'm a great believer in the phrase "If it aint broke, why fix it?" or words to that effect.

Cheers Rosy.

[tom95521]

The drama continues.  It's just a name.

https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/07/tenacity_maintainer_quits_4chan_harassment/

Tom

[rosy]

Hi Tom

Just read your link, sounds like a cyber version of the Godfather. I've been using the version I have for at least 2 years & very unlikely I would want to upgrade so I think I'm probably safe from door knockers

Cheers Rosy