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.

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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 forum
• IRC Channel
• The Audacity Community (summary)

Resources

• Books about Audacity
• User-created music & more about music
• Effects Plug-ins

Participation

• Report Bugs
• Suggest Features
• Help us with...

...Everything for Users

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Top Tutorials & Tips

Audio from...

• A microphone
• Multi-track Overdub recording
• Audio CD
• Tapes or Records
• USB turntables/tape decks
• Streaming audio ("stereo mix")
• iTunes

Audio to...

• MP3
• Audio CD
• Podcast
• Ringtones
• iTunes and iPod

Tips and Troubleshooting

• Recording Troubleshooter & Recording Tips
• How to split a recording into tracks
• Removing Vocals & Other Effects
• Changing the Audacity language

Operating System Help

• Use the Windows system mixer to enable inputs
• Windows 8
• Windows 7
• Windows Vista

• Mac OS X
• Linux

...All Tutorials & Tips

For Developers

Developer Documentation

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

Quality

• Release Notes
• Bug Lists
• Patch Tracker
• Code Review

Development Activity

• Planning
• Google Summer of Code

...Everything for Developers