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Audacity 1.3.2 User Manual

Audacity for the Impatient (all you need to know in one page)

What's New in Audacity 1.3.2

Foundations

Digital Audio

Audacity Projects

Audacity Tracks and Clips

Audacity Selection

Audacity Setup and Configuration

Playing and Recording

Tutorials

Tutorial - Your First Recording

Tutorial - Mixing a Narration With Background Music

Tutorial - Copying a Cassette or LP to CD (including noise removal and splitting into multiple tracks)

Advanced Concepts

Recording Quality

Audacity on Mac, Windows, and Linux

Spectrogram Analysis

Batch Processing (converting multiple files at once)

Customization (themes and keyboard shortcuts)

Accessibility (Audacity for the visually impaired)

Recovery (if Audacity crashes or if you lose part of an Audacity project)

Reference

Menu Bar:

• File
• Edit
• View
• Tracks
• Generate
• Effect
• Analyze

Tool Bars:

• Tools
• Control
• Edit
• Mixer
• Meter
• Transcription

Editing Tools:

• Select
• Envelope
• Draw
• Zoom
• Move
• Multi

Project Window:

• Ruler
• Tracks
• Selection Bar

Preferences:

• Audio I/O
• Quality
• File Formats
• Spectrograms
• Directories
• Interface
• Theme
• Batch
• Keyboard
• Mouse

Frequently Asked Questions

Credits

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