Under the View menu, select "Show Clipping." Clipping occurs when you record at too high a level. This is when your recording was too loud and the sound has been "clipped" to fit within the volume capacity of a digital player. Make sure that Audacity is set to show you clipping in your audio. (You can also right click on most audio files, including AUP, MP3, and WAV, and select "Open with," then select Audacity, to open them directly from Explorer). Browse to the file you want open, and open it as you would any other file. If you have a newer computer with an SSD drive, that will noticeably speed things up.įrom Audacity, select File -> Open…, or Press Ctrl-O.
These may appear complicated, but once you're familiar with this, and if you have a modern computer, the whole process should only take about a minute per file of your time, plus maybe another minute or two (depending on the length of your chapters) exporting the file to MP3. While this guide doesn't cover everything that Audacity can do, if you worked through all of the steps under Getting Everything Ready to Record with Audacity and Recording with Audacity and you complete this section, you will have gained a good working knowledge of the program. AUP in Windows) or are importing a WAV file from the Zoom, the steps to normalize the audio for distribution and export to MP3 are the same.
Whether you've recorded your file with Audacity and saved it as a project (Audacity projects end in.
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