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Audacity is a free and open source digital audio editing application currently being developed by Muse Group. Use for questions specific to Audacity.

Audacity is an extremely popular open source digital audio editor, as it's free and relatively easy to use. It's popular amongst amateurs, semi-professionals and students looking for a cheap and easy way to record and edit audio but also to get a feel for the sound-side of multimedia processing.

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How do I change the playback speed without changing the tempo?

I have a recording in Audacity that I want to slow down for editing purposes only. When I'm finished editing and I go to export the file, the file should have the original tempo. Yes, I can go to Effect > "Change Tempo" to change the tempo until the…
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How to move/seek long forward/backward using shortcuts in Audacity?

I have Audacity 2.1 on Osx. I want to move cursor forward/backward for one second with a single shortcut. I found that there is a shortcut named "Long seek right during playback". It's default keybinding is Shift+Right. But pushing these buttons…
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How do you shift a selection in Audacity?

When you've selected a slice of track in Audacity, how do you shift the selection window without shifting the content? I'm trying to preview the playback of specific slices of audio in exact lengths, and I want to shift my selection by a few seconds…
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why is there a delay when recording my second track ? they dont align

I would like to figure out why my second tracks hold a delay from the first track instead of being completely aligned?? when i record shouldnt the singing be aligned with the music without me ajusting it????
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How do I move an audio clip to a different track within the same project?

I have a project that represents an album of songs, and what I'd like to do is move one song into another song's track so the first song plays after the second song. Unfortunately, the Webpages and videos I looked at deal solely with moving clips to…
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Emphasize background conversation in Audacity

I have an audio file of a man talking and some conversation taking place in the background. I need to remove the main voice and emphasize the background conversation. Someone can help me?
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How to use effect on part of the track without introducing the crack/pop sound?

I have a sound effect (bell ring) and I would like to increase the speed at which it decays: The change I want is not linear though. I would only like to speed up the last two thirds of the sound's duration. I can use change tempo effect: But this…
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Audacity has all my audio, but blocks are repeated

I've just recorded about an hour of audio in Audacity. All the data appears to be there, but unfortunately it's all duplicated -- it seems that blocks of roughly three seconds are repeated, and the recording is twice as long as it should be. So if…
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audacity noise removal without using noise-only portion of the song

I cannot use the noise reduction tool built in audacity because it needs a portion of the song where there is only noise. In the songs I have (old tango recordings), there is no empty part before or after the song but during the song, there is a…
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Audacity - moving the waveform graph up/down

I'm working in Audacity. What I need to do is to move the entire waveform graph up by a certain value. So for example all points with a value of 0 are supposed to become 10, every 10 is supposed to become 20, every -10 should become 0 and so on, for…
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Insert / paste before cursor in Audacity?

Is there a way to insert / paste audio before the position of the cursor in Audacity?
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Audacity: calculate exact amplification

Imagine I have 2 audio files. They contain same audio but one of them was amplified using Amplify effect of Audacity. I don't know the value used. Is it possible to calculate exact dB value used to change one file comparing it with original? How?
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Audacity, settings revert when opening exported wav

I looked through 3 past years of "Audacity" questions here and this hasn't come up. I have a wav file encoded at a Rate of 22050 bps and a Sample Format of 32 bit float. I do the following: 1) Change the "Set Rate" setting to 44100 Hz. This makes…
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How do I save multiple selected tracks as separate files?

I have a bunch of tracks in an Audacity project, a few of which I would like to export. However, I want each track to reside in its own audio file. Export Multiple will (as far as I can tell) split the tracks, but will export every track in my…
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How do I time shift a single audio clip in Audacity 2.0?

I want to move an audio clip so that it starts at a different time. I've read about this "time shift" tool, but am unable to figure out how to use it. The documentation was of no help to me. I can't find the "time shift" tool. I'm on a Mac.
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