How we are building Audacity 4
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Re: How we are building Audacity 4
#2I know accessibility for low vision users was mentioned, but I wonder, with all these changes, whether version 4 will be accessible to screen reader users, and if so, whether any major features will nevertheless remain inaccessible.
Re: How we are building Audacity 4
#3I know accessibility for low vision users was mentioned, but I wonder, with all these changes, whether version 4 will be accessible to screen reader users, and if so, whether any major features will nevertheless remain inaccessible.
I would guess accessibility will be similar to the current version of MuseScore since the same company (Muse Group) is leading both open source projects. So maybe look at MuseScore.
Re: How we are building Audacity 4
#4Is it still controlled by the Russian WSM Group? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27728784
Re: How we are building Audacity 4
#5Is it still controlled by the Russian WSM Group? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27728784
The video addresses this and claims it's not.
Re: How we are building Audacity 4
#6Is it still controlled by the Russian WSM Group? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27728784
The code is GPL.
https://github.com/audacity/audacity
The application privacy policy is here
Re: How we are building Audacity 4
#7I don’t know when it happened, but earlier in the week a non-tech member of staff, who was trying to install Audacity, called me really confused because it was asking about installing and then saving to some sort of cloud storage that was being pushed during the installation process. I personally haven’t used Audacity for a couple of years, so the cloud storage stuff added in 2024 is new to me showing up during install. It appeared again in the choice of save locations even after rejecting it during install and I have no interest in someone calling me in two years asking where their files are after the cloud storage shuts down or gets paywalled. For 95% of casual users looking to just split/combine/trim/etc some basic audio files, I’m just gonna tell them to use Ocenaudio.
Re: How we are building Audacity 4
#8I don’t know when it happened, but earlier in the week a non-tech member of staff, who was trying to install Audacity, called me really confused because it was asking about installing and then saving to some sort of cloud storage that was being pushed during the installation process. I personally haven’t used Audacity for a couple of years, so the cloud storage stuff added in 2024 is new to me showing up during insta…
I think Musehub.com is a sister project within Muse Group that helps mitigate the cost of paying professional developers to work on Audacity and MuseScore.
In the case of Muse Score it also provides a marketplace for third parties.
I don’t use it but I can see why it exists…ordinary folks expect cloud services these days. And if I had a different use case, it would help me get stuff done.
But for what it’s worth with Audacity I don’t see it pop up as a location on my computer.
Re: How we are building Audacity 4
#9Is it still controlled by the Russian WSM Group? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27728784
The code is GPL. https://github.com/audacity/audacity The application privacy policy is here https://www.audacityteam.org/desktop-privacy-notice/
GPL doesn't guarantee you security in any way, shape, or form nor is a privacy policy.
Re: How we are building Audacity 4
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
The code is GPL. https://github.com/audacity/audacity The application privacy policy is here https://www.audacityteam.org/desktop-privacy-notice/
GPL doesn't guarantee you security in any way, shape, or form nor is a privacy policy.
Sure and I agree.
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