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Understanding Categories

• Categories provide one way of searching this wiki.
• You can get a comprehensive list of all categories from Special:Categories. This list has the advantage that as well as naming the categories it shows the number of articles in each category too.

Search Strategies

Most people arriving at this page are searching for something. The box below gives some tips on searching the Wiki in various ways. The list of categories follows.

Category Intros

Each category has a brief introduction. At this current moment some of those intros are as follows:

For Users

This category is for pages that are relevant to using Audacity.

For Developers

Pages in this category are likely only to be of interest to developers.

For Editors

This category has pages with information for anyone wanting to edit this Wiki, and also some information for editors of our Wiki-based Manual. On this Wiki only the most basic help on editing can be given. The current main page on editing is: Audacity Wiki editing.

Community

This category contains online resources for users to meet each other, read our developer news or contact our Team. These pages are more about the social, organizational and psychological side of Audacity and only indirectly about technology.

Google Summer of Code

Google Summer of Code  (GSoC) is Google's program for promoting Open Source Software development. Audacity was a mentoring organization for five students for Google Summer of Code 2008, and mentored two students in 2009.

Ideas for GSoC projects, 2021:

• GSoC Ideas 2021

Internationalization

This category contains foreign language material about Audacity. It is also for pages about how the Audacity program, documentation and web sites are translated, and about how this process can be extended and improved.

Feature Planning

This category is for pages about ideas for future changes to Audacity. These pages include our current Roadmap and ideas for Google Summer of Code projects.

This is how we get from ideas to new releases of Audacity Feature Requests   -->   Proposals   -->   Projects   -->   Releases

• More details of how we plan at the The Feature Requests Pipeline
• This table comes from the Feature Requests page.

Feature	Votes	Category	Status
Improvements to the "Macros" (batch processing) feature - many high-rated requests, total as shown	224	Automation	Some enhancements (Automation Project) Many more possibilities.
Real-time effects	166	Effects	Basics (Effect-Preview button). Full feature.
Multi-channel playback	84	Playback Enhancements
PDF version of Manual	82	Interface Modifications	Draft Experimental PDF for 2.2.0 available. Offers of help to improve on this are welcome!
Punch-in and punch-out" recording	79	Recording Enhancements
Synchronize recorded/played back tracks automatically	71	Playback Enhancements
BPM and beat timecode automatic detection and beat matching	66	Effects
Support lyrics and album art in metadata tags	62	Imports and Exports
Allow direct MIDI editing/playback and incorporate MIDI sequencer	60	MIDI	Playback. It's in 2.2.0. Sequencer.
Sound Activated Recording pre- and post-roll:	56	Recording Enhancements
Choose which of multiple channels to record	54	Recording Enhancements
Too utilitarian/outdated/generic in appearance/hard to customise	51	Interface Modifications	Themes and Custom Theming available in 2.2.0. More ongoing work on appearance at Dark Audacity.
Bind particular parameters of effects to buttons or keyboard shortcuts	51	Interface Modifications	Achievable via Macros now. could be slicker.
Effects Categorization	49	Effects	Work started on blocks-based interface for configuring effects menu.
Include Audacity's own virtual driver to record stereo mix	46	Recording Enhancements
Assign different colors to individual tracks, clips or regions	46	Interface Modifications	It's in Audacity 2.2.1 release. Originally written for Dark Audacity.
Better ability to update	45	Recording Enhancements
Import/play video for synchronized soundtrack editing	47	Imports and Exports
Global shortcuts that operate Audacity if it does not have focus	46	Interface Modifications
Panning envelope editing	42	Editing Enhancements
Timestamp metadata	42	Imports and Exports
Export to directory from which original .aup or audio file loaded	41	Imports and Exports
Import Appended	39	Imports and Exports
Record from multiple sound devices at once	39	Recording Enhancements
Let the Timeline display time signature and bars/beats	37	Interface Modifications
Repair: vastly increased length of track to be worked on/works when zoomed out	37	Effects
Dynamically adjust loop playback when selection boundaries move	36	Playback Enhancements
Markers on Waveform	36	Interface Modifications
Control Audacity from command line	33	Automation	Was part of the Automation Project, for Audacity 2.3.0.
User-customised waveform colors for RMS and background to improve contrast	33	Interface Modifications	Can be achieved using the custom theming feature. An easier UI for this is also planned too.
Disable "Save Changes?" on exit - Simple option, even if the file has been edited.	32	Interface Modifications
Timer Record Multi-event scheduler	32	Recording Enhancements
One-step way to avoid clipping on multiple tracks	30	Interface Modifications
Smaller-sized and/or more unified project storage	29	Improved Resource or Project Management
Grid lines: Horizontal- and also in spectrogram view	29	Interface Modifications
Selection Toolbar: Microseconds [µs]	26	Imports and Exports
Control Audacity by a foot pedal	25	Automation
Make Scripting (mod-script-pipe) available after enabling it in Preferences	26	Automation
Reinstate 78 RPM EQ curves from Audacity 1.2	25	Effects
More Context Menu (right-click or CTRL-click) functionality	23	Interface Modifications
Non-destructive (non-linear) editing	22	Editing Enhancements
CD Rip and Burn	22	Unclassified Feature Requests
Preference for monitoring on by default	22	Interface Modifications
Sound Activated Recording: segment each recording event:	21	Recording Enhancements
Normalization Replay Gain (RMS)	20	Effects
Store metadata for each imported file	20	Other Import/Exports

Tutorial

This page is a collection of Tutorials giving step-by-step guidance on performing various tasks using Audacity. These complement our official Tutorials in the Manual. Most tutorials are now in the Audacity Manual - there are a few residual ones that remain here in the Wiki. Also see our list of Tips to enhance your day-to-day experience of Audacity.

Audacity Manual Tutorials

Peter 2Oct14: I have enhanced this section with links to all the current tutorials in the Manual. As in the Manual I have roll-over hover-texts.

See our Tutorials in the Manual for step-by-step instructions for performing the most common tasks in Audacity.

• Editing an Audio File

• Your First Recording

• Mixing Voice with Background Music

• Recording Multi-track Overdubs

• Looping

• Copying tapes, LPs and other media to CD or computer

• Recording streaming audio playing on the computer

• Splitting a recording into separate tracks

• Vocal Removal and Isolation

• Making Ringtones

• How to import CDs

• Burning Audio CDs

• Exporting to iTunes

• Importing from iTunes

• Sample workflow for LP digitization

• Sample workflow for exporting to iTunes

• Recording 78rpm records

• Click removal using the Spectrogram view

• Recording with USB turntables and cassette decks

Peter 16Dec18: At some stage is released add:

• links to new Manual pages (yet to be transferred) "Audacity for teachers..." and for "Recording Church Services"
  • Audacity for Teachers - Installation and Basic Editing
  • Recording Church Services

Audacity Wiki Tutorials

Most tutorials are now in the Audacity Manual - these few residual ones remain in the Wiki.

Tips

Our Tips pages comprise tips on particular aspects of working with Audacity and your hardware. Following these will greatly enhance your day-to-day experience of using Audacity.

Complete alphabetical list of Tips pages (autogenerated)

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Troubleshooting

This category is for pages about troubleshooting problems with Audacity. An important page is that about troubleshooting recording problems.

Work in Progress

The Work in Progress pages are used by subscribers to audacity-devel mailing list. All these pages, and this category page itself, should only be modified by subscribers to that list. All pages in this category have a prominent header noting this.

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Category:Category

This page is for searching the Wiki by category. Towards the end of the page is an automatically generated alphabetic list of categories in the Wiki.

Adding Categories to Pages

If you want to add a category to a page, look at an existing categorised page to see how it is done. The category is added as a link at the foot of the page. The order matters. Generally we try to have the wider categories first and the narrower categories later. There is a fuller explanation here.