Audacity Wiki Home Page

Welcome to the user-editable Wiki for Audacity ^® - a free, award-winning open source program for recording and editing sound. Audacity runs on Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux and other operating systems.

This Audacity Wiki is for the current version of Audacity. It is strongly recommended that you use the current version in conjunction with the current Audacity Manual.

• You can get help for any 2.0.x version by asking on the Audacity Forum.
• Find pages in this Wiki: by category, by popularity, all pages, user home pages

If you are using Audacity version 2.0.6 or earlier you will need to use the Legacy Wiki.

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For Users

Manuals

• Online Audacity Manual
• Downloadable Manual for Audacity
• Online Audacity alpha development Manual
• Online legacy Audacity 1.2 Manual (obsolete)

Help

• Frequently Asked Questions in the Audacity Manual
• Ask on the Audacity Forum
• The Audacity Community (summary)

Resources

• Audacity website
• Effects Plug-ins
• User-created music and more about music
• Books about Audacity (some obsolete)
• Legacy Wiki (for other than current Audacity)

Participation

• Report Bugs
• Suggest Features
• Help us with...
• Write Nyquist plug-ins

...Everything for Users

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Tips and extra Tutorials

The main set of Tutorials can be found in the Audacity Manual

Audio from...

• A microphone and Multi-track Overdub recording
• Audio CD
• Tapes or Records and USB turntables/tape decks
• Recording from Cassette Tape: some issues specific to cassettes
• Streaming audio ("stereo mix")
• Sound Devices and Interfaces
• iTunes
• Multichannel Recording recording more than two separate channels of audio at once
• Recording multi-track overdubs with specialist hardware

Audio to...

• MP3 using the LAME MP3 encoder
  • Lame Installation
• Audio CD
• Podcast
• Ringtones
• iTunes and iPod

Tips and Troubleshooting

• Audio file formats
• Recording Tips
• Recording Troubleshooter
• Changing the Audacity language
• Chris’ Dynamic Compressor for managing perceived loudness
• Managing Computer Resources and Drivers tips for recording without dropouts or clicks.

Operating System Help

• Windows 10,    Windows 8,    Windows 7,    Windows Vista
  • Mixer Toolbar Help for Windows users
  • Use the Windows system mixer to enable inputs
• Mac OS X
• Linux

...All Tutorials and Tips

For Developers

Developer Documentation

• Audacity Architecture
• Guide for New Audacity Developers
• Guide for Audacity Hackers
• Scripting

Quality Assurance

• Release Notes
• Bug Lists
• Wording
• Code Review
• Testing
  • Bugzilla marking of tested bugs
• Notes for Testers

Development Activity

• Next Release
• Roadmap
• Bug Lists
• Proposals
• Feature Requests
• Planning
• Experimental Features
• Experimental Modules
• Google Summer of Code 2008/9

...Everything for Developers