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Audacity® is the free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems. This is the Audacity Wiki, a public resource containing tips, tricks and information about Audacity and digital audio. Anyone can edit pages to make them more useful or relevant. Click here if you need help on Wiki editing. If you see a spammed page and need help restoring it, click here If you see a broken link, please repair it, or report it to our Help-list If you see a page that appears to be abandoned or redundant, please report it here You can browse an alphabetical index of all pages here Multilingual information Community Meet others and get help on our Forum Hang out on the Audacity Irc channel Join our hard-working developers now! Popular pages Recording Tips Current Features Tutorials - how to perform common tasks in Audacity Lame Installation for MP3 encoding Recent changes on this Wiki (a page generated by the system) Feature Requests Release Notes for stable and unstable versions MostPopularSearches - Want to contribute to the Wiki? These are the things people want to know about. Problems Mixer Toolbar Issues USB turntables Windows Issues - Including 98,XP and Vista, and Group Policy Installation Mac Issues - Also OS/2 Linux Issues MP3 - Lame Installation for MP3 encoding how to import files from iTunes including M4A/M4P Crash Recovery Beyond Audacity Other Programs that may be useful in conjunction with Audacity (sound creation, post-processing and others) and comparisons to other programs with similar features. Portable Audacity - Audacity on your USB key. AudacityVendors - Audacity and Ebay, and advice for people who've bought or want to sell Audacity SitesThatRecommendAudacity VendorsThatBundleAudacity - Including USB turntables. CreatedUsingAudacity - links to music and other audio created using Audacity Audacity in Education - how Audacity teaches young people about music and sound Using Audacity Tutorials - how to perform common tasks in Audacity. Some foreign language tutorials are available. Specific Tasks - creating drum tracks, audio restoration, tips on effects, navigation, selecting audio, aligning audio, playback, using other languages, file management, sending audio to others Recording Tips and Troubleshooting Mixer Toolbar Issues KeyboardLayouts Audacity for blind users Technology Plug-ins - Ladspa, Nyquist & VST CD Audio importing, burning FLAC ASIO Audio Interface DMA mode Recommended sound devices - information on using specific recording devices or sound cards with Audacity General Audacity Topics User Pages About Audacity Current Features Release Notes for stable and unstable versions Developing Audacity Contribute - How developers and others can help us improve Audacity Summer of Code 2008 - Google's program for sponsoring Open Source. Developer Guide - Overview of developing Audacity including compilation instructions Ensuring Quality Built with Audacity - Variants of Audacity with special features. Multilingual MultiLingual - Read and write about Audacity in other languages: Brazilian Portuguese Information Chinese(Taiwan) Tutorials (中文(台灣)) Czech Information (Cesky) Dutch Information French Information & Tutorials (Francais) German Information Greek Tutorials (Ελληνικά Άρθρα) Italian Tutorials Russian Tutorials (Русская помощь) Spanish Information Swedish Tutorials