Enshitification by owners of Audacity including telemetry. They eventually backed down, but that was after Tenacity forked off it and people started using and improving it.
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double_quack@lemm.ee 1 month ago
What’s the Audacity/Tenacity deal?
IcyToes@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
[deleted]yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Works great for me
Ulrich@feddit.org 1 month ago
Same. Although I only use it for very basic things. Honestly I mostly have switched to Davinci’s Fairlight, which is built into Resolve.
Alk@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I can’t press the record button without it crashing and it fails to see half of my audio channels, so I’d say not great.
Ulrich@feddit.org 1 month ago
Don’t know if you can call this “enshittification” as that implies it got progressively worse. It was bought out by a corporation and immediately turned to shit while also being neglected.
Novocirab@feddit.org 1 month ago
Apparently Audacity has been bougth by a company which subsequently did crap with it. reddit.com/…/help_tenacity_a_fork_of_audacity_aft…
Not sure how good Tenacity is currently
lime@feddit.nu 1 month ago
the trademark got bought. it’s still FLOSS, and they pledged to keep it that way, for whatever that’s worth. code can’t be retroactively un-gpled, so if they did decide to close it down they couldn’t just take it offline, only do new development in private. the big fishy thing was that they added a CLA to their repo, which only affects developers. as an end-user you’re fine.
also, the “crap” was a draft proposal of opt-in telemetry, which was subsequently scrapped. the company in question is based in the EU, anyway, so they would have to abide by the gdpr for any collected information.
GroteStreet@aussie.zone 1 month ago
A few years back Audacity got acquired by a commercial entity. They then proceeded to cause some controversy regarding user privacy.
I think they walked back some of them, and changed the installer to allow disabling the data collection; but by that time, a few forks have started popping up. Tenacity seems to be what many people eventually settle on.
Ickabod@lemm.ee 1 month ago
God out of all the software I’ve used over the years, to see Audacity go to hell like that is sad. I was not expecting that. And to think once upon a time, i replaced a little program called Cooledit Pro (which was bought by Adobe if I recall), with Audacity.