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Creates a new empty project window.
Selecting Open presents you with a dialog where you
can choose a file to open. If the current project window
is empty, the new file will take over the current window,
otherwise a new project window will be opened.
The file formats recognized by Audacity are
WAV,
AIFF,
NeXT/AU,
IRCAM,
MP3,
Ogg Vorbis,
MIDI,
and the Audacity Project file format
(AUP).
In addition, Audacity can also attempt to open an audio file in
a different format, as long as it is uncompressed - to do this,
use the Import Raw Data command.
Closes the current project window.
Saves the current Audacity project (AUP)
file. Audacity projects are not intended to be read by other
programs, but they are extremely fast to load and save within Audacity.
When you are finished working on a project and you want to be able to
use it in another program, select one of the
Export commands instead.
Note that most of the audio data for an Audacity project is not
stored in the AUP file, but in a
directory (folder) with the same name as the project. For example,
if you save a project as chanson.aup, there will be a directory
called chanson_data created to store the actual audio tracks
of the project. For more information on the project file format,
see the file formats page.
Saves the current Audacity project (AUP)
file, allowing you to give it a different name or move it to a new location
if you have already saved it in one location.
Audacity projects are not intended to be read by other
programs, but they are extremely fast to load and save within Audacity.
When you are finished working on a project and you want to be able to
use it in another program, select one of the Export
commands instead.
For more information on the project file format,
see the file formats page.
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Exports the current Audacity project as a standard audio file format such as
WAV or AIFF.
You can change the format of exported files in the
Preferences dialog.
If there are multiple tracks of the same channel in your project,
they will be automatically mixed in the exported data. For more
information about mixing, see Quick Mix.
To export only a single track or part of a track,
use Export Selection.
This is the same as Export, but it only
exports the part of the project that is selected. This is very
useful if you want to save a small clip from part of a track as
a separate file.
Exports the current Audacity project as an MP3 file.
Audacity does not encode MP3 files directly, but instead
requires that you download a separate MP3 encoder.
See Exporting MP3 Files for
details.
To export only a single track or part of track,
use Export Selection as MP3.
This is the same as Export MP3, but it only
exports the part of the project that is selected. This is very
useful if you want to save a small clip from part of a track as
a separate file. See Exporting MP3 Files.
Exports the current Audacity project as an Ogg Vorbis file.
To export only a single track or part of track,
use Export Selection as Ogg.
This is the same as Export As OGG, but it only
exports the part of the project that is selected. This is very
useful if you want to save a small clip from part of a track as
a separate file.
If you have any Label Tracks, this
command will export them as a text file. This feature is commonly
used in Speech Recognition research to annotate a speech utterance
and export the annotation to be later processed by another program.
To import these labels into a different project later, use the
Import Labels command.
Opens a dialog window that lets you configure Audacity.
For more information on the different preferences, see
the section on Audacity Preferences.
Closes all project windows and exits Audacity.
It will ask you if you want to save changes to your project. It is not necessary for
you to save changes if you just exported your file as WAV or MP3 and
you are finished working with it. On the other hand, if you are
working on a mix and plan to continue where you left off, saving an
Audacity Project will let you restore everything as it is later.
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