Tracks

Anthing that is added to your audacity project will be placed inside a track, which sits on the timeline of your project. You can have an unlimitted number of tracks in a project, subject only to the speed and power of your computer to manipulate the data. Each track will have a Track Panel at the left-hand end with the name and information about the track. You can click on the track name to access the Track Pop-Down Menu and alter various parameters of the track.

Audio Tracks

Audio tracks contain digitally sampled sounds. They can be stereo (with either joined or split left and right channels), or single channel mono, left or right. All tracks can be given their own gain, muted or made solo, panned left or right and mixed, and can have their own sample rate and bit depth. The track display itself offers spectrum and pitch views as well as two waveform views. All these features can be controlled on the Track Panel and its Pop-Down Menu.

Note Tracks

Note tracks are only available in the development builds of Audacity. They display data loaded from a MIDI file. They are currently not editable or playable.

Time Tracks

A special track that can be used to speed up and slow down playback over the course of the project, according to the range (upper and lower) that is set via the Time Track dropdown menu. This affects all tracks in the project.

Label Tracks

Label Tracks are where you can define and name specific points and regions (spaces between points) along a projects timeline in order to perform edits and/or export functions. For more details refer to Label Tracks