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Audacity and Russian spies

Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2021 1:31 pm
by richmond62
I have no way whatsoever of validating any of these claims:

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/07/05/au ... cy-policy/

BUT I will chuck Audacity out and replace it with one of these:

https://github.com/tenacityteam/tenacity

https://github.com/Sneeds-Feed-and-Seed/sneedacity

Re: Audacity and Russian spies

Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2021 1:16 am
by mwieder
The problem with translating mandatory legalese (GDPR compliance) into human-readable form.
A rewrite is on the way https://github.com/audacity/audacity/discussions/1225 and if you look at the source code on github, most of what gets sent up (only in online mode, note) is opt-in, with only the update checking and crash reporting opt-out.

I do use Audacity here: my usb cassette digitizer runs a bit fast, and Audacity allows me to lock in a nice 78% speed reduction and a nice noise filter. For anything more professional I've got the Harrison Mixbus, but it's overkill for many smaller jobs.

Re: Audacity and Russian spies

Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2021 11:20 am
by richmond62
Thanks Mark: Хорошо!

Re: Audacity and Russian spies

Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2021 9:14 pm
by mwieder
Mind you, I'm not saying you shouldn't look for an alternative to Audacity, but I'm hanging onto mine, at least for now.

Re: Audacity and Russian spies

Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2021 7:35 am
by richmond62
I'm hanging onto mine, at least for now.
So am I, but I am not upgrading it.