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Audacity’s new owner is in another fight with the open source community

Enlarge / MuseScore (the website) offers access to hundreds of thousands of sheet music arrangements. MuseScore (the application) allows easy editing and modification, MIDI playback, and more. (credit: Muse Group) Muse Group—owner of the popular audio-editing app Audacity—is in hot water with the open source community again. This time, the controversy isn’t over Audacity—it’s about […]

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No, open source Audacity audio editor is not “spyware”

Enlarge / Familiar to many an at-home podcaster. (credit: Jim Salter) Over the fourth of July weekend, several open source news outlets began warning readers that the popular open source audio editing app Audacity is now “spyware. ” This would be very alarming if true—there aren’t any obvious successors or alternatives which meet the same […]

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