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Navigation
Contents
Using Audacity
Tour Guide
Getting Started
Preferences
Menu Bar
Toolbars
Effects
Shortcuts
Tutorials
Tips
Reference
Digital Audio Audacity 2.1.3 Manual
Glossary
Subject Index
FAQ New features in this release
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) - most common questions are answered in the FAQ
Search the Wiki for extra tips and tutorials Visit the Forum for technical help Using Help Resources
Useful External Links
Forum Guide to the Audacity Project Window
Wiki
Latest Release

1 Menu Bar
 
2 Transport Toolbar
 
3 Tools Toolbar
 
4 Recording Meter Toolbar
 
5 Playback Meter Toolbar
 
6 Mixer Toolbar
 

7 Edit Toolbar
 
8 Transcription Toolbar
 
9 Device Toolbar
 
10 Unpinned Play/Recording Head
 
11 Timeline
 
12 Scrub Ruler
 

13 Track Control Panel
 
14 Audio Track
 
15 Label Track
 
16 Selection Toolbar
 
17 Status Bar
 

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Additional Menus on Mac Additional Track types

Audacity Time Tracks
Window Note Tracks

Tutorials
Editing an Audio File - Import the file, edit and export it Copying tapes, LPs and other media to CD or computer
Your First Recording - Record microphone, guitar, keyboard Click and pop removal techniques
Mixing Voice with Background Music - For podcasts Splitting a recording into separate tracks
Recording Multi-track Overdubs - Record over other tracks Burning Audio CDs and How to import CDs
Vocal Removal and Isolation Sample workflow for LP digitization and Sample workflow for tape
Looping - make an audio loop with Audacity digitization
Making Ringtones and IVR messages - For your cellphone or IVR system Exporting to iTunes and Importing from iTunes
Recording streaming audio playing on the computer Sample workflow for exporting to iTunes
Recording 78 rpm records

Using Audacity
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Quick Help Editing with Audacity

Getting Started - Recording, Importing, Editing, Exporting... Selecting audio and Spectral Selection
Audacity Tour Guide - quick tour of selected features of Audacity Clips - individual sections within an Audio Track
Installing and updating Audacity on Windows, Mac or Linux Splitting and Joining Stereo Tracks
Installing plug-ins for Audacity on Windows, Mac or Linux Zooming
Effects, Generators and Analyzers
Audacity Foundations Creating a Crossfade
Managing Audacity Projects - Audacity's internal workspace Mixing Audio Tracks
Audacity Setup and Configuration Undo, Redo and History
Preferences - changing your settings and reset to default
Toolbars Overview - including how to arrange Toolbars Help with Advanced Topics
Audio Tracks, Waveform view and Spectrogram view Accessibility - Audacity for the visually impaired
Label Tracks Latency when recording overdubs
Playing and Recording, Quick-Play, Scrubbing and Timer Recording Adding plug-ins & other customization, Scripting and Simplifying Menus
Importing audio and Exporting audio files - For use in other applications Chains - for batch processing and effects automation
LAME MP3 export and FFmpeg import/export libraries for more formats Sync-Locked Track Groups
On-Demand Loading of uncompressed files Time Tracks - used for varying speed control
Metadata Editor Crash Recovery
Navigation Tips, Playback Tips and Audio Alignment Tips
Keyboard shortcuts

Index, Glossary and More

Subject Index Audacity License
Glossary of Terms Information for Developers - join our developer community
Credits

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Screenshots: Unless otherwise stated, screenshots in this Manual are of Audacity running under its default settings on the Microsoft Windows 10® operating system.
Representative images of Audacity running on Mac and Linux are also included.
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