• henfredemars@infosec.pub
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    7 months ago

    I’m a little out of the loop, but I recall Audacity took a massive nose dive a while ago. Have they recovered from this?

    In particular, the cloud features doesn’t pass the smell test for me. Is this one of those apps where you download the old version?

    • Max-P@lemmy.max-p.me
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      7 months ago

      It's still going but I think a good chunk of the FOSS community avoids it. Distros that still ships it disable the telemetry.

      Definitely feels like the desperate attempts to monetize it, and the enshittification that typically arises next.

      As far as I know it's still fine to use if your distro disables the telemetry, which is what most people had issues with. It's still under the same license in the end, which is probably why they're now pivoting to cloud features: that they can make proprietary. I'm sure cloud-based AI plugins are next.

    • Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      7 months ago

      I might be wrong, but I remember reading that they removed the objectionable content after the fuss that was kicked up.

    • leopold@lemmy.kde.social
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      7 months ago

      They attempted to add opt-in telemetry a few years ago and people lost their shit for some reason. They didn't merge it, but the FOSS community's "fork first ask questions later" attitude kicked in anyway and multiple forks popped up while now the original project has permanently been labelled as spyware, which is fun. Fun fact, KDE Plasma actually has opt-in telemetry. Dolphin, Kate and a few kdepim apps also do. Plasma also has opt-in automated crash reporting, which is particularly evil. Y'all better uninstall them right now. I mean, what if you accidentally opted in, or something? Anyway, not a fan of hostile forks unless someone can actually prove the original project has gone to shit.

  • lemmyvore@feddit.nl
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    7 months ago

    Does Audacity still only work with ALSA? Wish they'd use at least pulse if not pipewire...

    • circular@lemmy.ml
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      7 months ago

      I've been using Audacity with PulseAudio for quite a while now and it works fine for me. I sometimes find myself tweaking volumes in PulseAudio on the side.

        • circular@lemmy.ml
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          7 months ago

          Late reply, but yes. You can mix and match to record from Pulse but playback to ALSA too (or the other way around) but I think using Pulse for both makes more sense.

  • SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip
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    7 months ago

    Didn't Audacity already have pitch shifting? Or did they improve the algorithm? If the latter is true, this is very exciting to me