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Re: Audacity 4.0

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in the age of 500MB apps (thanks to electron); it is refreshing to see a sub-50MB app again.

Now that I look at it, why is the arm64 that much smaller then x86_64? 36 vs 47MB

Just an educated guess, but perhaps there are optional dependencies missing in the arm64 version. Some programs are still broken or perform badly on arm64.

Re: Audacity 4.0

#52
post #31

>> The following Audacity 3 features are not available in Audacity 4.0, but we're working on adding them in future releases. Time Tracks Note/MIDI tracks Mixer Macro Manager and the scripting pipe VAMP and LADSPA plugin hosting Play-at-speed Sync-Lock and the old tool modes were replaced by the workflows described above. >>Additionally, Audacity 4 ships with some missing exporting and rendering features, analyzers, a…

LADSPA sounds pretty critical; did they really ship with that missing?

Re: Audacity 4.0

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post #30
post #20

How's the telemetry situation nowadays? I haven't been updating my copy for a while.

I just started the appimage - it asks you to login to the "cloud" but also offers a prominent skip button, and then asks if you want a telemetry UUID or not.

So even after the intense backlash Tantacrul saw on the GH threads, they went ahead and stuffed it full of telemetry anyway. Incredible.

Re: Audacity 4.0

#56
Wasn't audacity taken over by a company sniffing for user data, some years ago?

I noted this down into a local .yml file back in 2021, when Muse Group took over and wanted to telemetry-sniff people. I didn't pay attention to audacity past that point.

Also, many accounts on hackernews act very suspiciously, with just raw promo as it if comes from an advertising account. I am noticing this increasingly, where people comment regular news with "this is great!!!!!". That makes no sense.

Re: Audacity 4.0

#59

Whatever happened with the post-telemetry fork debacle projects? Tenacity, Sneedacity, or something...

Someone mentions it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49549040

https://tenacityaudio.org

Seem like they have a few commit every week. 32 Issues closed in a year: https://codeberg.org/tenacityteam/tenacity/activity/yearly

Looks healthy?

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