User:Billw58/Working with Audio Tracks

Peter 3Dec11: There seem to be two classes of information here. The first two entries "The Waveform Display" and "Audio Tracks" do seem rightly to belong to "Understanding Audacity". But the remaining five entries are about using Audacity rather than just understanding the basics amd thus possibly would reside more correctly under "Tutorials". If we did move them to tutorials then I would still support using this page but with the first two entries "The Waveform Display" and "Audio Tracks" removed (leaving these in "Understanding Audacity" - I agree with an earlier comment by Bill that Audio Tracks deserves a duplicate entry under "Understanding Audacity" in addition to its current entry in the "Reference" section under "Project Window".

• Bill 03Dec11: Peter, see my comments on the Audio Tracks page. Perhaps this page could be the "read more" page linked to at the end of the Audio Tracks page, and thus would lose the first two sections and possibly the "Mixing" section.
  Under that scheme, the "Understanding Audacity" section of the front page might look like this:
  • Digital Audio
  • What is an Audacity Project?
  • Audacity Setup and Configuration
  • Playing and Recording
  • Audacity Waveform
  • Audio Tracks
  • Working with Audio Tracks
  • Mixing Audio Tracks
  • Undo, Redo and History
    • Peter 3Dec11: Yup,that menu structure for "Understanding Audacity" would work well for me. And yes I would support your idea of linking to this page from the end of Audio Tracks page. Also, on third thoughts, I agree with you about not shunting this over to tutorials.

Working with Audio Tracks

It is likely that most of the work you will be doing with Audacity will involve recording, editing and otherwise manipulating audio tracks. The following pages give information about specific aspects of audio tracks and how to use the features that Audacity provides.

Pretend these sections do not exist!

The Waveform Display

Audacity Waveform shows how Audacity displays audio waveforms in an audio track.

Audio Tracks

Audio Tracks gives details on what is displayed in an audio track, and the controls associated with an audio track.

Audio Selection

Audacity Selection talks about the special characteristics of audio selection, the methods for selecting audio in a track, and the features Audacity provides to help you make exactly the selection you need.

Splitting and Joining Tracks

User:Billw58/Splitting_and_Joining_Tracks shows how to use commands in the Track Drop-Down Menu to split a stereo track into two single-channel tracks, and how to join two single-channel tracks into a one stereo track.

Clips

Audacity Tracks and Clips introduces the concept of clips within an audio track, and how to create, merge and move clips.

Sync-Locked Tracks

Sync-Locked Tracks describes this feature which allows you to keep tracks in sync with each other when performing editing operations on one track.

Zooming

Zooming explains how to zoom in and out to see less or more of the audio waveform.