How to use Audacity
From Audacity Development Manual
How To Use Audacity
Quick Help
- Getting Started - Recording, Importing, Editing, Exporting...
- Audacity Tour Guide - quick tour of selected features of Audacity
- Installing and updating Audacity
- Audacity Setup and Configuration
- Themes - learn how to select your preferred Audacity look and feel
- Installing plugins - you can download and install plugins to add extra functionality to Audacity
- Plugin Manager
- Changing language
- Resetting Audacity to default settings
- Connecting audio equipment - Microphones, instruments, USB devices...
- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
- most common questions are answered in the FAQ
Playing and Recording
Importing and Exporting Audio Files
- Importing audio and Exporting audio files - For use in other applications
- FFmpeg import/export libraries for more formats
- LAME MP3 export - only required for Linux
- Metadata Editor
Editing with Audacity
- Selecting audio
- Audio Alignment
- Copy and Paste a section of audio
- Clips - individual sections within an Audio Track
- Splitting and Joining Stereo Tracks
- Zooming Overview and Vertical Zooming
- Effects, Generators and Analyzers
- Creating a Crossfade
- Mixing Audio Tracks
- Undo, Redo and History
- Spectral Selection and Editing
Help with Advanced Topics
- Using realtime effects
- Macros - for batch processing and effects automation
- Mixer - analogous to a hardware mixer board
- Accessibility - Audacity for the visually impaired
- Sync-Locked Track Groups
- Crash Recovery
- Portable Audacity
- Multi-channel Recording - recording more than two separate channels of audio
- LOF Files for Importing sets of audio files
Customizing Audacity
