LWinterberg

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by LWinterberg 3y ago
Audacity predates this convention, it's Cmd+1,2,3,E,F for zoom in/neutral/out/selection/project at the moment. It definitely should be changed though.
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by LWinterberg 3y ago
In the context of Audacity, telemetry already would have been useful: A previous version removed the cut/copy/paste buttons, thinking that people normally used ctrl+x/c/v. However, in practice this turned out to only be
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by LWinterberg 3y ago
We've definitely learned something. And I can forgive you being skeptical, all I ask from you is to also be skeptical of outrageous claims.
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by LWinterberg 3y ago
Note that it says "closed" at the top. Pull requests which are merged say "merged", like this one: https://github.com/audacity/audacity/pull/5484 You can verify for yourself that there is
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by LWinterberg 3y ago
Indeed: > Audacity's source code is currently released under the GNU General Public License version 2 (GPLv2). We intend to update the license to GPLv3 to enable support for new technologies not compatible with GPLv2 (i.e. - VST3, w
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by LWinterberg 3y ago
Feel free to! View > Toolbars > Share Audio toolbar disables it. Compiling from source has it disabled by default.
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by LWinterberg 3y ago
This fork exists and it's called Audacity. Audacity doesn't have any telemetry, the PR never got merged. And any online functionality it does have (automatic update checking, crash reporting) can be turned off.
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by LWinterberg 3y ago
Not really. Enshittification requires high switching costs, so users stick around despite thinking "yeah I should go somewhere else". With Audacity, switching costs are low. You either can compile the thing with the relevant featu
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by LWinterberg 3y ago
As you can see in https://github.com/audacity/audacity/pull/835 , the telemetry was never added.
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by LWinterberg 3y ago
Audacity will switch to Qt/QML for version 4 because wxWidgets just keeps getting in the way.
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by LWinterberg 3y ago
> - The tempo stretching example in the video was too subtle for me. I listened a few times and had trouble telling the difference. that's the point of it. Being able to make 124 bpm samples cooperate with 110bpm samples without any
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by LWinterberg 3y ago
It's complete BS. Audacity never stopped being open source and currently has update checking and crash reporting - it does not have any telemetry.
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by LWinterberg 4y ago
You may want to actually read the privacy policy, particularly point 4: "We do not store or share any personal information." Regarding Audacity becoming a paid product or closed source, look at the rest of Muse Group: Musescore (t