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Welcome, Audacity manual editors!

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Audacity User's Manual


This manual is a work in progress. It relates to the current Beta release (1.3.12) not 1.2.5 or 1.2.6! Audacity Beta is the basis for our upcoming 2.0 stable release.

The Audacity Manual current at time of release is included in the Windows .exe or Mac .dmg Audacity installers.

To view the Manual, click Help > Manual (in web browser), or Help > Quick Help (in web browser) to access the "Getting Started" section of the manual. This will load the local Manual files in your web browser, without the need for an internet connection.

If you have obtained the zip version of Audacity or are on Linux, you can download and install the most current Manual here.

There are no complete translations of this Manual to other languages yet. Try here for help in other languages.

Can you help us complete the Manual, or translate it to other languages? If so, please e-mail Gale (gale_AT_audacityteam_DOT_org)


New users may want to look at:

  • Audacity for the Impatient - Schematic diagram of Audacity with quick links to the main parts of the interface.
  • Getting Started - Quick help to get you recording, importing files, editing and exporting your work in no time.
  • Tutorials - walk-throughs of common tasks in Audacity.


Using Audacity

Foundations

Help with Advanced Issues

Reference

Project Window

Menu Bar

Audacity* File Edit
View Transport Tracks
Generate Effects Analyze
Window* Help
Items with * for Mac only.
  • Submenus and Details

Toolbars

Control Device Edit
Meter Mixer Selection
Tools Transcription
  • Details for the Tools Toolbar

Preferences

Devices Playback Recording
Quality Interface Tracks
Import/Export Projects Libraries
Spectrograms Directories Warnings
Effects Keyboard Mouse
List of all keyboard shortcuts

Miscellaneous


Links: Most links are to other pages in this Manual. Bold italicized  links are to a description in our Glossary. Other italicised  links are to pages external to this Manual, for whose content we are not responsible.

Screenshots: Unless otherwise noted in the hover text of the image, all screenshots of Audacity in the Manual are of Microsoft Windows® operating systems.

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