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audacity(1) General Commands Manual 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. /var/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 /var/tmp, for example), you should change the temp di- rectory 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 (local) disk with lots of free space. Note that older versions of Audacity put the temp directory in- side of the user's home directory. This is undesirable on many systems, and using some directory in /tmp is recommended. On many modern Linux systems all files in /tmp/ will be deleted each time the system boots up, which makes recovering a record- ing that was going on when the system crashed much harder. This is why the default is to use a directory in /var/tmp/ which will not normally be deleted by the system. 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-data/Plug-Ins _prefix_/share/audacity The system-wide Audacity directory, where <prefix> is usually /usr or /usr/local, depending on where the program was in- stalled. _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 en- vironment 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://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Known_Issues To report a bug, see the instructions at http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/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 wxWidgets, 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://www.audacityteam.org/about/credits/ audacity(1)
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