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Audacity 3.3 Manual
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) - most common questions are answered in the FAQ
■ Visit the Forum for technical help ■ Using Help Resources ■ Check out written guides and video tutoria
Guide to the Audacity Project Window
1 Menu Bar 2 Transport Toolbar 3 Tools Toolbar 4 Edit Toolbar 5 Audio Setup Toolbar
6 Share Audio Toolbar
7 Recording Meter Toolbar 8 Playback Meter Toolbar
9 Unpinned Play/Recording Head 10 Timeline 11 Track Control Panel 12 Vertical Scale
13 Audio Track 14 Label Track 15 Selection Toolbar 16 Time Toolbar 17 Play-at-Speed Toolbar
18 Status Bar
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Help buttons Additional Menus on Mac
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Using Audacity
Quick Help Editing with Audacity
Searching the Manual - tips on how to Search the Audacity Manual Selecting audio
Getting Started - Recording, Importing, Editing, Exporting... Navigating and identifying audio for editing
Audacity Tour Guide - quick tour of selected features of Audacity Track focus
Installing and updating Audacity on Windows, Mac or Linux Audio Alignment
Updating from Audacity 2.x to Audacity 3.x (changed project Copy and Paste a section of audio
structure) Clips - individual sections within an Audio Track
Installing plugins for Audacity on Windows, Mac or Linux Splitting and Joining Stereo Tracks
Changing language Zooming Overview and Vertical Zooming
Connecting audio equipment - Microphones, instruments, USB devices... Effects, Generators and Analyzers
Creating a Crossfade
Audacity Foundations Mixing Audio Tracks
Undo, Redo and History
Managing Audacity Projects - Audacity's internal workspace Spectral Selection and Editing
Audacity Setup and Configuration
Preferences - changing your settings and reset to default Help with Advanced Topics
Toolbars Overview - including how to arrange Toolbars
Audio Tracks Macros - for batch processing and effects automation
Waveform view Mixer Board - Analogous to a hardware mixer board
Spectrogram view Accessibility - Audacity for the visually impaired
Multi-view Latency when recording overdubs or using Punch and Ro
Track Control Panel and Vertical Scale Sync-Locked Track Groups
Label Tracks Time Tracks - used for varying speed control
Playing and Recording Crash Recovery
Playback Portable Audacity
Recording Multi-channel Recording - recording more than two sepa
Quick-Play channels of audio
Looping Note Tracks (MIDI) - these contain data from MIDI (and
Scrubbing Allegro) files
Timer Recording LOF Files for Importing sets of audio files
Punch and Roll Recording
Importing audio and Exporting audio files - For use in other applications Customizing Audacity
FFmpeg import/export libraries for more formats
LAME MP3 export - only required for Linux Adding plugins & other customization and Creating Nyq
Metadata Editor plugins
Keyboard shortcuts
Themes - learn how to select your preferred Audacity loo
feel
Scripting
Tutorials
Editing an Audio File - Import the file, edit and export it Recording streaming audio playing on the computer
Your First Recording - Record microphone, guitar, keyboard Copying tapes, LPs and other media to CD or computer
Mixing Voice with Background Music - For podcasts Sample workflow for LP digitization and Sample
Recording Multi-track Overdubs - Record over other tracks workflow for tape digitization
Vocal Removal and Isolation Recording 78 rpm records
Looping - make an audio loop with Audacity
Making Ringtones and IVR messages - For your cellphone or IVR Click and pop removal techniques
system Splitting a recording into separate tracks
Punch-in repair of recording fluffs Burning Audio CDs and How to import CDs
Exporting to Apple Music/iTunes and Importing from Ap
Music/iTunes
Sample workflow for exporting to Apple Music/iT
Index, Glossary and More
Subject Index Audacity License
Glossary of Terms Privacy Notice
Credits Information for Developers - join our developer commun
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