

Label tracks and take notes of your project Highlight a portion of audio using your Selection Tool Helps you make accurate selections of your waveform.

Listen to your project hit the spacebar on your keyboard to Stop or Play Spectogram view:the horizontal axis represents time, the vertical axis is frequency a third dimension indicating the amplitude of a particular frequency at a particular time is represented by the intensity or colour of each point in the image. Waveform view: vertical axis represents amplitude or loudness and the horizontal axix represents time. this track allows you to add markers or regional markers to the whole project or individual tracksĬlick on the black arrow to view a pull down list of options for each track - allows you to rename the track, provides sample information, waveform view, spectrogram view, mute or solo the track, increase volume and pan left-right function. Stereo tracks can be split into two mono tracks. this is one audio file with a left and right track recorded with a stereo microphone. this is one audio file recorded with one microphone Tracks > Add new > Audio track, Stereo track, Label track, or Time track Mono track cut, copy, paste, trim, silence, undo, redo, sync-lock, zoom plays audio at a slower or faster speed, affecting the pitch controls the mixer settings of the sound card displays levels for playback and recording chooses various tools for selection, volume adjustment, zooming, time-shifting of audio and a multi-function tool If Audacity opens a warning screen click the option that says "Make a copy of the files before editing (Safer)" and click OK. WMA files can also be imported with the FFmpeg libraries installed. Audacity can import WAV, AIFF, AU, IRCAM, MP3 and OGG files. aup extension and a folder ending with _data.įor example, inside the folder called interview if the project was named October there would be a file called p and a folder called October_data.Īlways keep the project file and data folder together.įile > Import > Audio navigate to the audio files that you want to import. Inside your folder there will be the Audacity project file with a. This folder will contain all your audio files and edit information. (preferrably after every edit) File > Save navigate to your hard drive and create a project folder.

Open Audacity found in the applications folder.
