Subject Index

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Audacity 1.4 User Manual

• Audacity for the Impatient (all you need to know in one page)
• Editing for Beginners - Cut, Copy and Paste
• Editing for Beginners - Introduction
• Editing for Beginners - Silence, Duplicate and Split
• Editing for Beginners - Splitting and Submixes
• Sample rates (may be a candidate for a technical appendix or similar later)
• Theme Preferences
• Transcription Toolbar disabled
• What's New in Audacity 1.3.2
• Batch Preferences - this Preferences tab no longer exists.

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 full description of noise removal more briefly described in Effect Menu or only a link to it Effect Menu ??? and including splitting into multiple tracks)

Using Audacity

Foundations

• Digital Audio
• Audacity Tracks and Clips
• Audacity Selection
• Audacity Setup and Configuration
• What is an Audacity Project?
• Playing and Recording
• Zooming
• Undo, Redo and History

Help with Advanced Issues

• Working with Audio CDs Audacity cannot import or burn to CDs itself, but read how to work with them here
• Recording Quality (/// this should be expanded or better, incorporated in the recording tutorial///)
• Recovery (if Audacity crashes or if you lose part of an Audacity project)///must include advice on what to do if recovery fails///
• Batch Processing (converting multiple files at once)
• Customization (keyboard shortcuts, adding plug-ins and more)
• Simplifying Audacity
• Accessibility (Audacity for the visually impaired)

Wanted Topics

• Spectrogram Analysis (or one or more better titles, cover tracking down clicks, square wave as-a-spectrum, beat frequencies).

Reference

Menu Bar: all commands for importing, recording,
manipulating and exporting audio

• Menu Bar overview
• File

• Metadata Editor for editing information tags in exported files
• File Export Dialog including help on which format to export to
• Export options for:

WAV, AIFF and uncompressed types, MP3*, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, MP2 and Command line export   *MP3 export requires the LAME MP3 encoder

• Advanced Mixing Options dialog for exporting multi-channel files

• Edit

• Editing Help: Cut, Paste and More

• View
• Tracks
• Generate

• Effect

• Detailed help for some of the more complex built-in effects:

Auto Duck, Compressor, Equalization, Noise Removal

• Help with VST effect plug-ins

• Analyze
• Help

Toolbars: buttons and controls for playback,
recording and editing

• Toolbars overview

• Tools

• Extra help with Envelope Tool for controlling amplitude changes smoothly, and Multi-Tool (combining all tools in one)

• Control
• Edit
• Mixer
• Meter
• Transcription
• Selection

Project Window:

• Timeline
• Tracks overview
• Audio Tracks

• Track Drop-Down Menu
• Mixing Audio Tracks

• Label Tracks
• Time Tracks

Preferences:

• Preferences overview
• Audio I/O
• Quality
• Import / Export
• Interface
• Spectrograms
• Directories
• Keyboard

• List of all keyboard shortcuts

• Mouse

Miscellaneous

Index, Glossary and Frequently Asked Questions:

• Glossary of Terms with links to Wikipedia and/or main Wiki including audio file formats.
• Frequently Asked Questions

Credits, License and Media/Developer Information:

• Credits
• License
• Information for Developers - how to join our developer community
• Audacity Project Format