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## Audacity 1.3.9 User Manual

- 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

- Tutorial - Editing an Existing File
- Tutorial - Your First Recording
- Tutorial - Mixing a Narration With Background Music
- Tutorial - Copying tapes, LPs or minidiscs to CD (including full description of noise removal more briefly described in Effect Menu or only a link to it Effect Menu ??? and including splitting into multiple tracks)

## Using Audacity

### Foundations

- Digital Audio
- Audacity Tracks and Clips
- Audacity Selection
- Audacity Setup and Configuration
- What is an Audacity Project?
- Playing and Recording
- Zooming
- Undo, Redo and History

### Help with Advanced Issues

- Working with Audio CDs Audacity cannot import or burn to CDs itself, but read how to work with them here

- Recording Quality (/// this should be expanded or better, incorporated in the recording tutorial///)
- Recovery (if Audacity crashes or if you lose part of an Audacity project)///must include advice on what to do if recovery fails///
- Batch Processing (converting multiple files at once)
- Customization (keyboard shortcuts, adding plug-ins and more)
- Simplifying Audacity
- Accessibility (Audacity for the visually impaired)

## Reference

### Menu Bar: all commands for importing, recording,
manipulating and exporting audio

- Menu Bar overview
- Audacity Mac only
- File

  - Metadata Editor for editing information tags in exported files
  - On-Demand Loading of uncompressed files
  - File Export Dialog including help on which format to export to
  - Export options for:
    WAV, AIFF and uncompressed types, MP3*, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, MP2 and Command line export *MP3 export requires the LAME MP3 encoder
  - Custom FFmpeg Export to apply customized codec and format options (development builds only)
  - Advanced Mixing Options dialog for exporting multi-channel files

- Edit

  - Editing Help: Cut, Paste and More

- View
- Transport
- Tracks
- Generate

- Effect

  - Detailed help for some of the more complex built-in effects:
    Auto Duck, Compressor, Equalization, Noise Removal, Repair
  - Help with VST effect plug-ins

- Analyze
- Window Mac only
- Help

### Toolbars: buttons and controls for playback,
recording and editing

- Control
- Device
- Edit
- Meter
- Mixer
- Selection
- Tools

  - Extra help with Envelope Tool for controlling amplitude changes smoothly, and Multi-Tool (combining all tools in one)

- Transcription

### Project Window:

- Timeline
- Tracks overview
- Audio Tracks

  - Track Drop-Down Menu
  - Mixing Audio Tracks

- Label Tracks
- Time Tracks

### Preferences:

- Preferences overview
- Audio I/O
- Quality
- Import / Export
- Interface
- Spectrograms
- Directories
- Keyboard

  - List of all keyboard shortcuts

- Mouse

## Miscellaneous

### Index, Glossary and Frequently Asked Questions:

- Index
- Glossary of Terms with links to Wikipedia and/or main Wiki including audio file formats.
- Frequently Asked Questions

### Credits, License and Further Information:

- Credits
- License
- Information for Developers - how to join our developer community

- Audacity Project Format
- Further Help

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