Open source friends are upset as the popular app gets new management. This would not be a problem if the new administrators did not add some features to the popular telemetry data collection application.
Let's see what happened:
Audacity is a free audio and recording editor that lets you mix and edit any number of audio files. The program is written in C ++ and uses the wxWidgets GUI toolbox to provide the same graphical interface to different operating systems.
The open source Audacity audio software has been acquired by the Muse Group, which has appointed a new management team responsible for development and of course new features. A few days after the changeover, the new management decided to add some “essentials possibilities τηλεμετρίας” στο λογισμικό. Η ανακοίνωση έγινε αυτήν την εβδομάδα στο GitHub by Dmitry Vedenko, who among others, Reported that they use Google Analytics to track the following:
- Start and end the session
- Errors, such as those of sqlite3, as we need to troubleshoot issues mentioned in the Audacity forum
- Use effects, γεννήτριες ήχου, εργαλεία analysiss, so we can prioritize future improvements.
- Use file formats for import and export
- Operating system and Audacity versions
To detect session sessions, users receive a UUID that is created and stored on their computer. Developers also use Yandex Metrica to properly assess daily active users. The reason why a second service was used is not clear but they report that Google Analytics has very limited ratios. Of course, the name of the developer who announced the changes is Russian (Dmitry Vedenko), and maybe that is one of the reasons for choosing Yandex Russia.
Both services, however, record the IP from which the request originates.
According to the new management team, telemetry data collection is optional and configurable. The open source community, however, has not been thrilled with the news.
So if the new development team does not respect Audacity friends who have been using it for so many years, they will probably lose users, as the market has a lot of applications.
