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minus-square@crimsoncobalt@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink0•7 months agoI believe they were bought by someone and eventually implemented some questionable practices. I don’t remember the exact details, maybe someone else does.
minus-square@Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilink0•7 months agoWasnt it something about data collection?
minus-square@Zangoose@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink0•7 months agoIt was, the company that bought out Audacity added a bunch of telemetry to it
minus-square@SatyrSack@lemmy.onelinkfedilink0•7 months agoI have used this as a drop-in replacement, with no complaints. https://codeberg.org/tenacityteam/tenacity
minus-square@tomsh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink0•7 months agoYou’ve got to love the open-source community! If only the whole world worked like that.
minus-square@Shareni@programming.devlinkfedilink0•7 months agoAFAIK everything was dropped in the end, and people went back to using audacity
minus-squareOtterlinkfedilinkEnglish0•7 months agoI 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
Wait, what happened to Audacity?
I believe they were bought by someone and eventually implemented some questionable practices. I don’t remember the exact details, maybe someone else does.
Wasnt it something about data collection?
It was, the company that bought out Audacity added a bunch of telemetry to it
Any good alternatives?
I have used this as a drop-in replacement, with no complaints.
https://codeberg.org/tenacityteam/tenacity
You’ve got to love the open-source community! If only the whole world worked like that.
AFAIK everything was dropped in the end, and people went back to using audacity
It was opt-out telemetry IIRC
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