<story><title>Audacium has officially merged with Tenacity</title><url>https://github.com/Audacium/audacium/commit/709c098bdc2968c12fcf9b7092af12d11f309101</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Retr0id</author><text>IIUC both were projects spawned after Audacity added telemetry to their release builds.&lt;p&gt;The telemetry in Audacity is behind both a build flag, and a runtime opt-in setting (although it was originally going to be opt-out, hence the uproar (I need to go fact-check this, it&amp;#x27;s been a while)).&lt;p&gt;So, if you install Audacity through your distro&amp;#x27;s package manager, you&amp;#x27;re probably not getting any telemetry, opt-in or otherwise.&lt;p&gt;With that in mind, I&amp;#x27;m not sure I understand why these forks exist exactly. If I was a windows or macOS user, I might be interested in telemetry-free builds, and I&amp;#x27;d be very thankful for anyone providing them, but I&amp;#x27;m not sure why a whole fork is needed to do that.&lt;p&gt;Looking at the git tree, it&amp;#x27;s clear that these forks have diverged significantly from upstream Audacity (simply from looking at commit counts and screenshots etc.), so it&amp;#x27;s apparently not a simple build-config-change and rebrand. However, the marketing blurb on &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;tenacityaudio.org&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;tenacityaudio.org&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; does not make it clear which features are distinct from upstream.&lt;p&gt;Edit: You can read about the telemetry options currently present in Audacity here: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.audacityteam.org&amp;#x2F;about&amp;#x2F;desktop-privacy-notice&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.audacityteam.org&amp;#x2F;about&amp;#x2F;desktop-privacy-notice&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Audacium has officially merged with Tenacity</title><url>https://github.com/Audacium/audacium/commit/709c098bdc2968c12fcf9b7092af12d11f309101</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>CharlesW</author><text>Audacity is audio&amp;#x2F;sample editor¹ that&amp;#x27;s popular as a My First Editor™ for podcasters, etc. For anyone wondering why the Audacium&amp;#x2F;Tenacity forks exist: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.zdnet.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;audacity-reverses-course-on-plans-to-add-opt-in-telemetry-after-outcry&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.zdnet.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;audacity-reverses-course-on-pl...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Apparently, Audacity telemetry is now restricted to a self-hosted Sentry error reporting service, and to sending version info an IP address (anonymized to the first 3 octets) on update checks.&lt;p&gt;¹ It&amp;#x27;s a so-called &amp;quot;destructive&amp;quot; audio editor², and so is different than modern, &amp;quot;non-destructive&amp;quot; audio editors like GarageBand, Reaper, Descript, etc.&lt;p&gt;² &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;projects.iq.harvard.edu&amp;#x2F;files&amp;#x2F;hks-communications-program&amp;#x2F;files&amp;#x2F;ho_2_kgagne-audacity_10_30_17.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;projects.iq.harvard.edu&amp;#x2F;files&amp;#x2F;hks-communications-pro...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>