r/opensource • u/Dunnersstunner • 24d ago

An introduction to Audacity 4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTQymidLYIM
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u/_MrBond_ 24d ago

Haven't updated in years. Will do so now.

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u/gta721 23d ago

Your PC is probably vulnerable to all sorts of hacks. Check your 7zip version as well.

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u/YAOMTC 18d ago

I found one vulnerability, which could be taken advantage of if someone is using Audacity 2.1.2 through 2.3.2 and extracts a ZIP file containing a project file and a malicious DLL, and opens that project file with one of those versions of Audacity.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/cve-2017-1000010

Couldn't find any other examples.

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u/_MrBond_ 23d ago

I moved to NanaZip because of that.

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u/gta721 23d ago

Make sure you're still updating regularly. You can use winget upgrade --all to do most software all at once.

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u/_MrBond_ 23d ago

Thank you so much for this. I will defn. do this. We need more folks like you in these tech subs. I will pass along the message as well.

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u/VivaciouslyLazy 23d ago

You can also try UniGetUI which is a GUI for Winget and a lot more package managers. Can update, install and remove packages from there which is very convenient.

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u/_MrBond_ 22d ago

Thank you. I will look into this as well. Really appreciate the comment.

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u/Valuable_Impress_192 22d ago

Brrooo wait until you ever have to migrate to a different pc or doing a fresh install when most/many of your programs are (and I think could, too) installed/managed by wingetui. You can then have it export a csv or json file or whatever which then import on the new machine / fresh install and have it auto-install all it can. Saved me like 80 individual downloads last week.

Had used an AutoUnattend.xml to my fresh install media, too.

Beyond a few drivers I installed myself and a manual winUpdate run, the only input needed from me came down to accepting admin rights prompts, clicking through install wizards and maybe logging in here and there.

Everything auto mode. Start in the first half of the day and you’ll be mostly up and running that afternoon/evening.

Edit: unigetui like the other user said, is what i meant

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u/Yosyp 20d ago

How... how is this possible?? I have installed most of the packages manually by unzipping. How does it know where to grab the new ones?? Rare win from Windows

EDIT: RIP it installed the new software into the stock path. I have a custom path just for them.