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audacity(1)							   audacity(1)

NAME
       audacity - Graphical cross-platform audio editor

SYNOPSIS
       audacity -help
       audacity -version

       audacity [-blocksize nnn] -test
       audacity [-blocksize nnn] [ AUDIO-FILE ] ...

DESCRIPTION
       Audacity	 is a graphical audio editor.  This man page does not describe
       all of the features of Audacity or how to use it;  for  this,  see  the
       html documentation that came with the program, which should be accessi‐
       ble from the Help menu.	This man page describes the Unix-specific fea‐
       tures, including special files and environment variables.

       Audacity currently uses libsndfile to open many uncompressed audio for‐
       mats such as WAV, AIFF, and AU, and it can also be  linked  to  libmad,
       libvorbis,  and libflac, to provide support for opening MP2/3, Ogg Vor‐
       bis, and FLAC files, respectively.  LAME, libvorbis, libflac and	 libt‐
       wolame provide facilities to export files to all these formats as well.

       Audacity	 is  primarily	an interactive, graphical editor, not a batch-
       processing tool. Whilst there is a basic batch processing  tool	it  is
       experimental  and  incomplete. If you need to batch-process audio or do
       simple edits from the command line, using sox or ecasound driven	 by  a
       bash script will be much more powerful than audacity.

OPTIONS
       -help	 display a brief list of command line options

       -version	 display the audacity version number

       -test	 run  self  diagnostics	 tests	(only  present	in development
		 builds)

       -blocksize nnn
		 set the audacity block size for writing files to disk to  nnn
		 bytes

FILES
       ~/.audacity-data/audacity.cfg
	      Per user configuration file.

       /tmp/audacity-<user>/
	      Default  location	 of Audacity's temp directory, where <user> is
	      your username.  If this location is  not	suitable  (not	enough
	      space  in	 /tmp, for example), you should change the temp direc‐
	      tory in the Preferences and restart  Audacity.   Audacity	 is  a
	      disk-based  editor,  so the temp directory is very important: it
	      should always be on a fast disk with lots of free space.

	      Note that older versions of  Audacity  put  the  temp  directory
	      inside  of  the  user's  home directory.	This is undesirable on
	      many systems, and using some directory in /tmp  is  recommended.
	      Open the Preferences to check.

SEARCH PATH
       When  looking  for  plug-ins,  help files, localization files, or other
       configuration files, Audacity searches the following locations, in this
       order:

       AUDACITY_PATH
	      Any  directories	in the AUDACITY_PATH environment variable will
	      be searched before anywhere else.

       .
	      The current working directory when Audacity is started.

       ~/.audacity-files

       <prefix>/share/audacity
	      The system-wide Audacity directory, where	 <prefix>  is  usually
	      /usr   or	  /usr/local,  depending  on  where  the  program  was
	      installed.

       <prefix>/share/doc/audacity
	      The system-wide Audacity documentation directory, where <prefix>
	      is  usually  /usr	 or /usr/local, depending on where the program
	      was installed.

       For localization files in particular  (i.e.  translations  of  Audacity
       into other languages), Audacity also searches <prefix>/share/locale

PLUG-INS
       Audacity	 supports  two	types  of plug-ins on Unix: LADSPA and Nyquist
       plug-ins.  These are generally placed in a  directory  called  plug-ins
       somewhere on the search path (see above).

       LADSPA  plug-ins	 can  either be in the plug-ins directory, or alterna‐
       tively in a ladspa directory on the search path if you choose to create
       one.   Audacity	will  also  search  the directories in the LADSPA_PATH
       environment variable for additional LADSPA plug-ins.

       Nyquist plug-ins can either be in the plug-ins directory,  or  alterna‐
       tively  in a nyquist directory on the search path if you choose to cre‐
       ate one.

VERSION
       This man page documents audacity version 1.3.5

LICENSE
       Audacity is distributed under the GPL, however some of the libraries it
       links  to are distributed under other free licenses, including the LGPL
       and BSD licenses.

BUGS
       For details of known problems, see the release notes and	 the  audacity
       wiki:
       http://www.audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Known_Issues

       To report a bug, see the instructions at
       http://www.audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Reporting_Bugs

AUTHORS
       Project	leaders	 include  Dominic  Mazzoni, Matt Brubeck, James Crook,
       Vaughan Johnson, Leland Lucius, and Markus Meyer, but dozens of	others
       have contributed, and Audacity would not be possible without wxWindows,
       libsndfile, and many of the other libraries it is built upon.  For  the
       most  recent  list of contributors and current email addresses, see our
       website:

       http://audacity.sourceforge.net/about/credits/

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