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Audacity adds AI audio editing capabilities thanks to free Intel OpenVINO plugins (www.notebookcheck.net)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago (3 children)

What? You must be joking. Really? The entire thing was about opt-in error reporting?

.... seriously, that can't be it, can it?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Not really that simple, it was an apparent change to the privacy policy that vaguely anticipated collection of arbitrary user data, which shook the confidence of the open source community on the project. The fact this happened right after audacity was sold was the cherry on top.

https://github.com/audacity/audacity/issues/1213

Changes were eventually reverted or revised.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

yep... really just that...

i've used it forever with a very restrictive firewall and i've never seen it do anything unexpected... or any phoning home at all...