The inclusion of both Google Analytics and Yandex Metrica, along with the tracking specifics, set off an uproar in the update’s comments. In case of data sharing is disabled - all calls to the telemetry Report* functions are no-op.Īdditionally, this pull request comes with a set of libraries to help the future efforts on Audacity. Telemetry collection is optional and configurable at any time. We have to use the second service as Google Analytics is known to have some really tight quotas.īoth services also record the IP the request is coming from. We use Yandex Metrica to be able to correctly estimate the daily active users correctly. To identify sessions we use a UUID, which is generated and stored on the client machine. Usage of file formats for import and export Usage of effects, sound generators, analysis tools, so we can prioritize future improvements. Universal Google Analytics is used to track the following events:Įrrors, including errors from the sqlite3 engine, as we need to debug corruption issues reported on the Audacity forum To implement the network layer libcurl is used to avoid issues with the built-in networking of the wxWidgets. Keep in mind this is planned for the next version of Audacity (3.0.3): This request provides the basic telemetry for Audacity. Shortly after the acquisition (May 4, 2021) the following privacy policy update was announced. Muse Group was established this year (2021), and is a collection of software focused on musicians. Audicity Acquisition and Privacy Policy UpdatesĪ few months ago, Audacity was acquired by the Muse Group.

Not only is this not true, it seems like these articles are coming dangerously close to click bait. Recently, there’s been some discussion on some open-source websites with provocative headlines that claim Audacity has become spyware.

Audacity is a free and open-source multi-track audio editor that I’ve been using ( and talking about) for years.

Is audacity safe