6 Mar
2025
6 Mar
'25
11:20 p.m.
On Thursday 06 March 2025 05:54:30 E. Liddell via tde-users wrote:
On Thu, 6 Mar 2025 02:01:16 -0800
William Morder via tde-users <users(a)trinitydesktop.org> wrote:
In my brief search for non-snooping replacements for Audacity, I found
Rosegarden (which apparently is KDE), for which there is a Trinity version,
rosegarden-trinity.
This looks interesting, and seems to have a lot of similar features, but the
interface is rather cluttered (at least, at first glance); also, it seems to
be specifically for midi instruments, most likely keyboards. As it happens, I
do have a keyboard, though I don't use it much. But Audacity works with any
instruments through my much better mixing device. If I can plug in an
instrument or microphone, Audacity works.
My new little toy is just a USB microphone, and I don't intend to use it for
anything but quick and dirty acoustic recordings. If I recall, there is
somehow that I can use tools that are already in my system (maybe, in TDE?)
for simple sound recording with a microphone, but haven't found it yet.
If I could go all TDE, all the time, for everything I do, that would be best
of all.
Bill
Also, over the past couple years I've been
reading various complaints
about the new "privacy" policies of Audacity: that it now snoops on
users, even when it's not running, if it's installed on a system. I would
like to find a better fork that respects our privacy, but so far I have
found nothing to compare with it in GNU/Linux programs.
The telemetry features embedded in Audacity can be disabled at
compile-time. I'd assume that any sane linux distro is building it with the
appropriate configuration. Having them present at all isn't good policy,
granted, but having them not-mandatory means that there's limited interest
in forking the codebase.
Just make sure that any prebuilt binaries you install do *not* come from
the Audacity development team, and you should be okay.
E. Liddell