Audacity
Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for download here for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems.
What's it for?
This is a Wikiversity learning resource placed here to help folks with:
- Getting started with sound recording
- Creating music with your PC
- Wiki Campus Radio
- Topic:Audio Engineering
- Topic:Learning Objects (The kind that can be heard)
- Topic:Internet Audio
- ...
- Converting to OGG for Wikiversity
- One of the most important uses for Audacity at Wikiversity is to convert WAV and AIFF files to OGG files.
- Wikiversity only uploads OGG files. Attempts to upload other file formats gets a very vague error message so you must use a program like Audacity to do the conversion.
- To do this, start a new page in Audacity. Then IMPORT your WAV or AIFF file. Trim and export to OGG. Very easy!
Getting started
Audacity article at Wikipedia
Main menu
The main menu of audacity contains:
- File - New, Open, Close, Save Project, Save Project As, Export... (8 export options), Page Setup, Print, Preferences, Exit
- Edit - Undo, Redo, ... Move Cursor, Snap to...
- View - Zoom In, Zoom Normal, Zoom Out, ... Float Mixer Toolbar, Float Meter Toolbar
- Project - Import Audio, Import Labels, ... Add Label at Playback Selection
- Generate - Silence, Tone, White Noise, ... Plugins 1 .. 32
- Effect - Amplify, BassBoost, ... Reverse, WahWah
- Analyse - Envelope Tracker, ... Peak Monitor
- Help - Online Help, About Audacity
See also
Wikibooks
Wikiversity
- Wiki Campus Radio - wiki & radio
- Wikiversity Reports - webcasts
External links
- Audacity at flossmanuals.net
- Audacity Wiki
- Sound editing tutorial by Daveydweeb
- Audacity tutorial
- #audacity at FreenodeIRC
- Audacity-JACK Integration (columbia.edu/pipermail post)
- The Audacity of it! (pdf)
- Using Audacity (WikEducator)
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