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.Errors, including errors from the sqlite3 engine, as we need to debug corruption issues reported on the Audacity forum.Universal Google Analytics is used to track the following events: To implement the network layer libcurl is used to avoid issues with the built-in networking of the wxWidgets. This request provides the basic telemetry for Audacity. In a pull request on Github headed ' Basic telemetry for the Audacity', project contributor Dmitry Vedenko said: One complaint points out that the move will not only involve using 'closed source telemetry providers that are well known to data mine', but also that 'the telemetry is not that useful considering that basically no Linux build will include it enabled'. On top of this, the team says it is hard to know how many users there are, what types of users are affected by specific problems, and whether or not it is safe to raise minimum system requirements.īut despite trying to sweeten the bitter pill of telemetry, the response remains overwhelmingly negative. Attempting to soften the blow of telemetry, the team says that while Audacity is widely used across several platforms, they have no information on the application stability. The development team stresses that telemetry is disabled by default and is optional, but there has been a vocal response from opponents to the move on GitHub. The sharing of data with Google and Yandex has not gone well. The development team stresses that telemetry exists solely to 'identify product issues early', but there has already been quite a backlash.

Now, open-source audio editor Audacity has taken the decision to add such data capture into the software.

Whatever the reasons behind it, the inclusion of telemetry collection in software never goes down well - as Microsoft knows all too well from the reaction to Windows 10 telemetry.

Audacity audio editor