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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 tapes, LPs or minidiscs 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

License

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