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LWinterberg
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About LWinterberg
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Comment #38157144
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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Comment #38157068
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,…
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Comment #38134059
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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Comment #38131942
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 t…
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Comment #38131565
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 te…
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Comment #38131235
Feel free to! View > Toolbars > Share Audio toolbar disables it. Compiling from source has it disabled by default.
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Comment #38126502
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…
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Comment #38126493
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 ei…
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Comment #38125888
As you can see in https://github.com/audacity/audacity/pull/835 , the telemetry was never added.
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Comment #38125878
Audacity will switch to Qt/QML for version 4 because wxWidgets just keeps getting in the way.
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Comment #38125845
> - 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 b…
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Comment #38125807
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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Comment #32983507
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 so…