Audacity Alternatives

Reviews and mentions

• Whats up with the audacity bash and privacy problems?
  reddit.com/r/audacity | 2021-09-17
• alternatives for adobe programs
  reddit.com/r/coolguides | 2021-09-12

  Where are you getting the idea it's closed source? Latest release includes its source code

• How to start a podcast for free
  dev.to | 2021-09-10

  If you need to edit your podcast audio, cut out extra audio or a cough etc. I would recommend Audacity, which is an open source piece of software you can download and use to listen or edit your audio on. There has been a lot of controversy around Audacity so I am recommended it on the basis that you do your own research and understand their latest privacy policies changes.

• I think audacity is taking the piss
  reddit.com/r/audiophile | 2021-08-30

  I don't see if this is FOSS. At least in Audacity we get some kind of audits. A few months ago, there was a huge shitstorm for a PR, that should add telemetry (https://github.com/audacity/audacity/pull/835). Now, afaik all telemetry is opt-in, which is actually not that bad and imho way better than Ocenaudio.

• SixtyFPS cross platform GUI library agrees to guarantee FOSS licensing in their CLA
  reddit.com/r/rust | 2021-08-25

  Wow, I hadn't heard about the Audacity takeover mentioned there as incentive for the push, what a shame

• is it possible to install older versions of audacity from the offical website?
  reddit.com/r/audacity | 2021-08-19
• progress update on Tenacity, the Audacity fork
  reddit.com/r/linux | 2021-08-18

  It is not just this. More importantly to me, MuseGroup imposed a CLA on a 20 year old GPL project which gives them unilateral authority to use contributions in proprietary software. They have not reversed this. It is very unlikely they will reverse that; it seems to be essential to whatever business strategy they have planned to monetize Audacity.

  reddit.com/r/linux | 2021-08-18

  No, you're jumping to conclusions without reading the relevant code. Take a look at the code reviews on https://github.com/audacity/audacity/pull/835/files

  reddit.com/r/linux | 2021-08-18
• Someone can handle the installer for 64bits windows 3.0.2?
  reddit.com/r/audacity | 2021-08-16

  that can be found here: https://github.com/audacity/audacity/releases/tag/Audacity-3.0.2

• 86GB project file for a 12hr audiobook recording, what's going on?
  reddit.com/r/audacity | 2021-08-10

  Got a bit of an update to you: We've come to the conclusion that this actually is something which might warrant a fix sooner rather than later, especially since the functionality already has been programmed to a large extend. It now is a question of designing/communicating it in a good way. I can't promise any specific date or release, but you can subscribe to the bug on Github to get updates: https://github.com/audacity/audacity/issues/1452

  reddit.com/r/audacity | 2021-08-10
• Godot > Unity3D
  reddit.com/r/Unity3D | 2021-08-09

  If you're referring to the whole "It's spyware" thing, the PR #835 was opt-in telemetry that has been dropped. The data they're collecting is designed to support error reporting and checking for updates and they swapped to self hosting the data.

• Dark Audacity
  reddit.com/r/audacity | 2021-08-06

  As for collecting personal info: https://github.com/audacity/audacity/discussions/1353 TL;DR: Audacity sends some very basic information about your system when checking for updates and a little bit more when you choose to send a crash report. You can opt out of automatic update checking and just not send crash reports.

• AudMonkey: Audacity 3.0.3 fork without telemetry(spyware), this fork also provides appimage, exe, dmg for easy install
  reddit.com/r/linux | 2021-08-05

  See also distros sometimes carrying PortAudio patches just for Audacity.