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Gale 17Jun13: Modules Preferences were made experimental in r12363, so assuming they remain so, they will not be in 2.0.4.

• Peter 20Aug13: Every page for the individual Preferences has an image map which contains "Modules Preferences"
• Peter 25Aug13: I removed the Modules entry from this page and from all the individual Preferences pages and removed the attendant P1s.

Preferences let you change most of the default behaviors of Audacity. The Preferences dialog can be accessed using the Edit Menu (or by using the shortcut CTRL + P). On a Mac, Preferences is under the Audacity Menu (shortcut CMND + ,).

A janela das Preferências está dividida em 16 secções. A página da descrição para cada secção (acedida em baixo através das hiperligações) mostra uma imagem das definições das preferências predefinidas para cada secção.

Secção	O que é que esta controla
Dispositivos	Choose audio host, playback and recording devices and recording channels.
Reprodução	Length of previews for cuts and effects; playback seek times.
Gravação	Settings for playthrough, latency and Sound Activated Recording.
Qualidade	Choose sample rate, sample format and options for rate and format conversion.
Interface	Interface behaviors, dB display range, choose language and location of Manual, show initial "Help" dialog.
Faixas	Tracks display and behavior; behavior of the Solo button.
Importar / Exportar	Importing: if audio is copied into projects, if tracks are normalized. Exporting: how audio is mixed, if Metadata Editor appears, Allegro exports.
Importar Estendida	Specify different importers to open specific audio file extensions.
Projetos	Whether to copy in dependent audio files when saving projects, or ask.
Bibliotecas	Download and locate the optional LAME and FFmpeg libraries.
Espetrogramas	Settings for presentation of spectrograms.
Diretorias	Location of the temporary files directory.
Avisos	Warn or not when disk space is low on startup, when saving projects, mixing down or importing uncompressed audio files.
Efeitos	Enable or disable effects by type: LADSPA, LV2, Nyquist, VAMP, Audio Units, VST. Control display of Audio Units and VST effects.
Teclado	Keyboard shortcuts for commands.
Rato	Mouse shortcuts for commands.

Nota: Escolha do formato de exportação (WAV, MP3 e outros) é efetuado no momento da exportação nas janelas de Exportar Áudio ou Exportar Múltiplos, selecionado o formato de exportação necessário e depois clica no botão Opções ....

Onde estão guardadas as Preferências?

Audacity Preferences are stored in a configuration file called audacity.cfg. It is a text file saved on each clean exit of Audacity and can be edited with any text editor. The file is stored inside Audacity's folder for application data:

• Windows 2000/XP: Documents and Settings\<user name>\Application Data\Audacity
• Windows Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8: Users\<user name>\AppData\Roaming\Audacity\
• OS X: ~/Library/Application Support/audacity/
• Linux: ~/.audacity-data/

In order to see audacity.cfg on Windows, Linux and OS X 10.7 or later, you need to show hidden files and folders. See instructions for all versions of Windows and OS X 10.7 and later.

However if you create a folder called "Portable Settings" in the same directory as the Audacity executable, "audacity.cfg" will be stored there instead. If you copy this "Portable Settings" folder to a USB stick or CD this lets you take your current Audacity settings with you if you use Audacity on another computer.

Resetting Preferences

Resetting preferences to factory defaults by initializing the audacity.cfg settings file to its original contents can sometimes fix freezes, crashes or unexplained behavior.

1. Exit Audacity.
2. Open audacity.cfg in a text editor such as Notepad and remove all the content except the line NewPrefsInitialized=1 (you can find this at or near the top of the file when you open it).
3. Save the changes to audacity.cfg and restart Audacity.

Reset Preferences using Windows installer

Windows users may alternatively run the .exe installer from http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/windows which has an option to reset preferences.

• To reset preferences, navigate to the "Select Additional Tasks" screen then put a check mark in the "Reset Preferences" box. After completing installation, launching Audacity will display a dialog where you can confirm if you want to reset preferences this once, or not.
• If you run the installer but do not choose "Reset Preferences", the installation files will be replaced with correct copies just as when choosing to reset preferences, but the Audacity settings will remain as before. This is unlikely to correct most Audacity problems.

Deleting audacity.cfg

If you have never previously run a legacy 1.2 version of Audacity on your computer, you can reset preferences more simply by deleting audacity.cfg while Audacity is closed.

However if you have ever used 1.2, merely deleting audacity.cfg will not completely reset Preferences. Any 1.2 Preferences which still apply to Audacity 2.0.x will revert to their current 1.2 settings, which may not solve any problems you were trying to fix.

If you wish to reset the 1.2 settings as well, you can delete the following.

• Windows: Registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Audacity\
• Mac OS X: the file "Users/<your user name>/Library/Preferences/audacity Preferences"
• GNU/Linux: the file ~/.audacity

Modifying the Windows Registry can be dangerous! Before modifying the Registry, always back it up, or set a System Restore point on Windows XP or later.