I don’t know when it happened, but earlier in the week a non-tech member of staff, who was trying to install Audacity, called me really confused because it was asking about installing and then saving to some sort of cloud storage that was being pushed during the installation process. I personally haven’t used Audacity for a couple of years, so the cloud storage stuff added in 2024 is new to me showing up during install. It appeared again in the choice of save locations even after rejecting it during install and I have no interest in someone calling me in two years asking where their files are after the cloud storage shuts down or gets paywalled. For 95% of casual users looking to just split/combine/trim/etc some basic audio files, I’m just gonna tell them to use Ocenaudio.
I think Musehub.com is a sister project within Muse Group that helps mitigate the cost of paying professional developers to work on Audacity and MuseScore.
In the case of Muse Score it also provides a marketplace for third parties.
I don’t use it but I can see why it exists…ordinary folks expect cloud services these days. And if I had a different use case, it would help me get stuff done.
But for what it’s worth with Audacity I don’t see it pop up as a location on my computer.
Yes. And ?
A lot of projects propose cloud storage without trying to force it on you. More the How than the What which is questionable here.
Like I said for many people, it is a benefit not a detriment.
Add in all the people who just don’t care and there is only a relative handful of people who are bothered.
Now filter out the people who don’t use the software from that relative handful and there’s an actual handful of users who might have to find something else because everything isn’t for everyone.
There were some forks of the original at the time that are still simple like https://tenacityaudio.org/ but I'm not sure how healthy any of them are.