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.
brudgers|5 months ago
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.
ldng|5 months ago
A lot of projects propose cloud storage without trying to force it on you. More the How than the What which is questionable here.
totetsu|5 months ago