audacity
Graphical cross-platform audio editor
Synopsis
audacity
-help
audacity -version
audacity
[-blocksize nnn] -test
audacity [-blocksize nnn] [ AUDIO-FILE ]
...
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function audacity {
apt-get install -y audacity
}
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exec /usr/bin/audacity
"$@" &>/dev/null
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Where does Audacity keep a user's configuration files?
From the Audacity Manual
Audacity Preferences are stored in a configuration file called
audacity.cfg. It is a text file and can be edited with any text
editor. The file is stored at:
- Windows: Documents and Settings\user name\Application
Data\Audacity\audacity.cfg
- OS X: ~/Library/Application Support/audacity/audacity.cfg
- Linux: ~/.audacity-data/audacity.cfg
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 accessible from the Help menu. This man page
describes the Unix-specific features, including special
files and environment variables.
Audacity
currently uses libsndfile to open many uncompressed
audio formats 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 Vorbis, and FLAC
files, respectively. LAME, libvorbis, libflac and
libtwolame 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
directory 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
inside 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 recording
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.
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.
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
alternatively 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
alternatively in a nyquist directory on the search path if
you choose to create one.
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
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
version
This man page documents audacity version 1.3.5
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/