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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 - Editing an Existing File

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 : Built In Effects, LADSPA Effects, Nyquist Effects
• Analyze

Tool Bars:

• Tools : Select, Envelope, Draw, Zoom, Move, Multi
• Control
• Edit
• Mixer
• Meter
• Transcription

Project Window:

• Ruler
• Tracks : Wave Tracks, Label Tracks, Time Tracks
• Selection Bar

Preferences:

• Audio I/O : To select Audio devices and their properties.
• Quality : To select data rates and other trade offs between speed, size and quality.
• File Formats : How and when files are copied, how audio is mixed and preferred audio formats.
• Spectrograms : Presentation of spectrogram.
• Directories : Where temporary files are stored and how often to autosave.
• Interface : Interface bahaviour, hiding and showing of additional information, language and preferred dB display range.
• Theme : Used to customise colors and images in Audacity.
• Batch : Used for a chain of commands applied to a number of audio files.
• Keyboard : Keyboard shortcuts for commands.
• Mouse : Mouse shortcuts for commands.

Preference File : Where are your preferences stored?

Other

Frequently Asked Questions

Credits

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