Pending website changes

FAQs


Suggested change

Insert after:

"See also: Why can't I play MIDI files?"

the following:

"How do I import a track from an audio CD?"

which is at



Current text

"It is legal to sell Audacity, as long as the seller makes the program and source code available under the GNU General Public License.

Some vendors try to trick customers by selling the software under a different name. If you bought a product and later found out it was Audacity, we encourage you to ask for a refund or file a complaint if you feel you did not get a fair deal. We ask vendors to give proper credit to the Audacity project, and allow users to make an informed choice."

Suggested replacement

"It is legal to sell Audacity, as long as the seller makes our program and source code available under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It is also legal to sell Audacity under another name, although we strongly discourage this.

Sellers may also offer modified copies of Audacity, as long as they make their modified program and its source code available under the same GPL, and call the program something other than Audacity.

If you have purchased Audacity not knowing that it is free, or purchased a program that you later found out to be Audacity, we encourage you to work with the seller to ask for a refund. You can examine the text of the product listing to see if any guarantee is offered. If you are unable to resolve the issue with the seller, you can usually raise a dispute with the payment service provider (for example, Paypal or your credit card company).

We also encourage you to inform the seller if you have concerns that the source code was not offered with the product or that a copy of the GPL was not included. If they don't respond adequately, you might want to approach their internet registrar, internet service provider or their advertising sources. Practically, there is little the Audacity Team can do to chase GPL violators with our current volunteer resources, except in the case of a seller stealing the Audacity trademark."

Nyquist plug-ins page
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/nyquistplugins

The contents of this page are spasmodically being updated on the Wiki Download Nyquist Plug-ins page. When the update for new plug-ins/new versions is complete, the main site will still host the plug-in pages, zip files and MP3 clips, but the page itself on the main site will then be removed.


 * Gale Jan 2012: Update of Download Nyquist Plug-ins is complete. After 2.0, http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/nyquistplugins should lose all individual plug-in links and instead link to Download Nyquist Plug-ins or sections thereof. It just needs a little care to ensure that older  versions of plug-ins that may be needed for 1.x versions of Audacity are still available as legacy links on Wiki.

dox


Change needed: Should be completely updated then an automated system put in place to keep it updated.

Needs discussing

 * RA has suggested our License page:


 * Consider extending FAQs to include more real life how-tos, linked to articles in the Manual or Wiki

Done

 * http://audacity.sourceforge.net/community/donate moved to its own tab at http://audacity.sourceforge.net/donate (Jan 2012).


 * http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/faq?s=files&i=split (Jan 2011) - add "Alternatively, Audacity can attempt to detect the silences between tracks and label them automatically."
 * Remove (04 Mar08) as it is now entirely duplicated on the  which is easier to keep up-to-date (and has a much wider range of tutorials anyway). Link to Wiki  and  in the Sidebar.
 * (24 Feb08) Add explanation of “public mailing list.”
 * (24 Feb08) change “Your email address will normally be removed from published archives for your privacy" to “always be truncated”.
 * (24 Feb08) Remove "for a fee" comment
 * (24 Feb08) Add installation instructions
 * (24 Feb08) Add link to Windows_Vista_OS
 * (24 Feb08) Add installation instructions
 * (24 Feb08) Add link to Windows_Vista_OS
 * (24 Feb08) Add viable links to packages
 * (24 Feb08) Add viable links to packages
 * (24 Feb08) and Add links to Wiki compilation instructions
 * (24 Feb08) Add links to Mac LADSPA effects installer and Nyquist Generate Prompt
 * (10Feb08) - minor tidy and typo
 * (10Feb08) - minor tidy and typo plus more information on using CVS and submitting patches
 * (10 Feb 08) - rewrite for new -feedback list to replace -help list, and explain what a "public mailing list" means
 * (Autumn 2007) - moved up the announcements list subscription box to be underneath the yellow download box, so more people will see it.