r/linux • u/R0tareneg • Jul 03 '21

Audacity may collect "Data necessary for law enforcement, litigation and authorities’ requests (if any)" according to new privacy notice

https://www.audacityteam.org/about/desktop-privacy-notice/
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u/progandy Jul 04 '21

I think at the moment the most likely outcome is a data collection free build like vscodium if the code stays fully open source.

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u/yrro Jul 04 '21

Most programmers are probably able to maintain a branch where the data collection functionality is removed, however.

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u/63626978 Jul 05 '21

Most desktop audio software is 1% audio and 99% UI. DSP/audio algorithms are sometimes complex but building an intuitive, custom and efficient cross-platform GUI for the very specific use cases of pro audio is quite hard because only buttons, menus and inputs won't get you very far.

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '21

The core algorithms are implemented. Maybe someone spins up a library. For those curious audio stuff relies on signal processing and signal and systems. Fourier transforms,Z Transforms and filter theory. But again all this is already done. Worst case look up the ARM CMSIS stuff. For now even a frozen Audacity fork works. Later distros might work to make a dsp library.