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Audacity ® is free, award-winning  open source software for recording and editing sound. It runs on 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 for help with Wiki editing. Please help us maintain the Wiki by restoring broken links or damaged pages, and alerting us to abandoned or duplicated pages Multilingual information/ Multilingue/ Mehrsprachig Community Get help and meet others on our Forum Hang out on the Audacity Irc channel Join our developers Wiki Keep up-to-date with all recent changes and those on your watched pages! Index of all pages List of categories containing related pages Users' pages  [ ALT SHIFT . ] to view yours! Our most popular pages Most searched for - help us write new or better pages on the subjects users want to know about. Please tell us what you like about the Wiki or how we could improve it! About Audacity Brief overview of Audacity Audacity features in detail Release Notes for stable and Beta versions Audacity in the wider world Audacity sellers - advice if you've bought or want to sell Audacity Audacity bundled with commercial products Educating the young - how Audacity teaches about music and sound Music and other audio created with Audacity Link exchange - If you recommend us on your site, list your site here! Developing Audacity Anyone can suggest new features for future Audacity versions! Developer Guide - Overview of developing Audacity including compilation instructions Roadmap of current development plans Contribute to Audacity as developers or helpers! Summer of Code 2008 - Audacity's planned role in Google's Open Source program Built with Audacity - Variants of Audacity with special features Ensuring Quality - Coding standards, testing, submitting patches and... Found a bug in Audacity? Here's how to report it to our developers Using Audacity Tutorials including digitizing records and tapes, splitting recordings into separate tracks, multi-track mixing , podcasting, making ringtones, removing vocals, exporting to iTunes or iPod Anleitungen Tutoriales Tutoriels Уроки Tips - Effects, navigating and aligning tracks, selecting audio, playback, changing languages, file management, installing LAME for MP3 export, sending audio to others ... Recording Tips and troubleshooting recording problems Mixer Toolbar help Recovering data after a crash Keyboard shortcuts and help for blind users Portable Audacity - on your USB Flash Drive! Technology Operating systems and Audacity - information for Windows (including Vista), Mac, Linux and OS/2 DMA mode for faster data processing Digital audio basics including ASIO, bit depth, sample rates ... Sound Devices - information on using specific recording devices or sound cards with Audacity, including USB turntables Plug-ins - LADSPA, Nyquist, VST... plus how to develop your own plug-in Audio Formats CDs - guides on importing and burning CDs Lossless formats - WAV, AIFF, FLAC Lossy formats - MP2, MP3, OGG Apple formats - how to import files from iTunes including M4A/M4P Other audio software Software for specific tasks such as creating drum tracks, audio restoration or post-processing Recommended audio software for Windows, Mac and Linux/Unix, plus comparisons with Audacity Multilingual Multilingual information/ Multilingue/ Mehrsprachig Read and write about Audacity in other languages!  عربي  Ελληνικά  Português Brasileiro  Bahasa Indonesia  Español  Русская  Česky  Français  Svenska  中文(台灣)  Italiano  Deutsch  Nederlands