Which is basically Russia, USA and the EEA zone:Īll your personal data is stored on our servers in the European Economic Area (EEA). It states for example that it can hand any user data to state regulators where it is located: The updated privacy policy page (which was uploaded 2 days ago) for Audacity includes a wide range of data collection mechanisms. While Audacity is nothing more than a desktop program, its developers want to make it phone home with various data taken from users’ machines. The parent company is a multi-national company and it has been trying to start a data-collection mechanism in the software. The same company owns other projects in its portfolio such as Ultimate Guitar (Famous website for Guitar enthuisasts) and MuseScore (Open source music notation software).Įver since, Audacity has been a heated topic.

One solution, suggested by some users, is to have several programmable macro plugins that could be called upon in different situations.The famous open source audio manipulation program was acquired by a company named Muse Group two months ago. If the new version of Audacity is aiming for full digital audio workstation (DAW) functionality it wouldn’t be too difficult to automate this area. This will progressively remove the noise, as long as you can find a section with just that noise. You can then repeatedly click ‘noise reduction’. Within the app itself noise removal and repair allows you to clean up audio by selecting a piece with only the noise you want removed to get the ‘noise profile’. This only works for spoken-word recording, however. The ‘get more effects’ for noise removal and repair takes you to NVIDIA Broadcast which only works on Windows machines with a NVIDIA RTX GPU.

Good clean-up tools, which show potential for automation.Noise Reduction takes out unwanted background, as long as you can separate it (Image credit: Audacity)

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