Audacity updates and news

[Ted]

Those features really do look useful.

BTW: I use an optimization and maintenance tool on my Mac (developed by a Ukranian company), and it flagged Audacity as "Suspicious." That gave me pause. I vaguely remembered the concerns over Audacity from a couple of years ago. I have largely overcome any minor hesitation about using it.

Apparently some forks of Audacity sprang up in 2021 (Tenacity, Audacium) after the main app was accused of being "spyware," but none of these forks built up any momentum. But it seems that the forking was somewhat effective as a protest.

What are your thoughts, 64G? Is that a good interepretation?

• "Muse Group formed to support MuseScore, Ultimate Guitar; acquires Audacity". Scoring Notes
• "Audacity 3.0 called spyware over data collection changes by new owner". AppleInsider.
• "Actions we propose to take on PR #835 #889". GitHub.
• "Apologetic Audacity rewrites privacy policy after 'significant lapse in communication'". The Register.

[64Guitars]

I haven't trusted Audacity since The Muse Group acquired it. However, all of my concerns are based on its use of the internet. So I just turn off my modem before I open Audacity. Or I can also turn off my wired internet connection in Ubuntu's system menu:



I did a quick search to see if the Mac has something similar and found this page:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1792330

I assume that there is also a control to switch off a wireless internet connection.

Audacity doesn't need internet access and it never had it before The Muse Group acquired it. So just don't let it access the internet by switching your connection off before opening Audacity and it should be perfectly safe to use.

[64Guitars]

Audacity 3.4 was released today (November 2, 2023).

https://support.audacityteam.org/additional-resources/changelog/audacity-3.4

https://www.audacityteam.org/download/



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgdYuSHdkso