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Highlight your audio then Edit menu > copy.

Choose the Selection tool in the Tools Toolbar.Open a blank track - this will be your working pallet.Use Tab on your keyboard to select forwards to the next label, and SHIFT+Tab to select backwards to the previous label.Edit > Labels > Add Label at Selection (cmd+B).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 WMA files can also be imported with the FFmpeg libraries installed. Audacity can import WAV, AIFF, AU, IRCAM, MP3 and OGG files.If Audacity opens a warning screen click the option that says "Make a copy of the files before editing (Safer)" and click OK.and navigate to the audio file that you want to import. Then copy the entire project folder to a server or external drive. When you are done working save the project and quit Audacity.Give the project a meaningful name in the Save As box.Give the folder a meaningful name (your name, name of subject etc) and click Create.

On the left of the Save window click Desktop.

Save the project before doing anything with Audacity.

When moving the project between computers always keep the project file and data folder together.

For 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.

aup extension and a folder ending with _data.

Inside your folder there will be the Audacity project file with a.

Always make a folder to save your Audacity project in.Audacity has a specific file structure that needs to be maintained.Hardware I used in this video: (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying Amazon purchases.Open Audacity from the applications folder. This is a great way to make backups of your project at critical points in your editing because it give you a convenient way to go back to a version of the project before changes were made, if needed. You can give your backup copy it’s own name and save it in any folder. Project backups are identical to your working project but are essentially a snapshot of your working project at the moment in time that you create it.

Project backups were introduced in Audacity version 3.0.0 and are a convenient way to backup your work, keeping the backup copy separate from your working copy.

Audacity tutorials how to#

In this short tutorial I show you how to make a backup copy of your working Audacity project file.