The Book Of Audacity

Contents

• Dedication
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• What Can Audacity Do?
• What This Book Covers
• Audacity vs. Ardour
• Chapter 1: Audacity from Start to Finish
• 1.1 Audacity Quick-Start
• 1.2 Audacity in Detail
• 1.3 Managing Audacity Projects
• 1.4 Selecting Tracks and Segments of Tracks
• 1.5 Track Panel
• 1.6 Cutting Out Unwanted Chunks
• 1.7 Fade In and Out
• 1.8 Making Quiet Recordings Louder
• 1.9 Timer Record and Sound Activated Recording
• 1.10 Mixer Board
• 1.11 Track Metadata
• 1.12 Final Mixdown
• 1.13 Audio File Formats and Quality Settings
• 1.14 Now What?
• Chapter 2: Building a Good Digital Sound Studio on the Cheap
• 2.1 Getting Sound In and Out of the Computer
• 2.2 Multichannel Recording, PCI, USB, FireWire
• 2.3 USB or FireWire?
• 2.4 Microphones
• 2.5 Microphone Preamp
• 2.6 Speakers and Headphones
• 2.7 Your Computer Must Have Muscle and Vast Drawers
• 2.8 Operating Systems
• 2.9 Portable Recording
• 2.10 The Secret of Recording Your Own Great Audio
• 2.11 Visit Appendix A
• Chapter 3: Transferring Vinyl LPs (and Other Legacy Media) to CD
• 3.1 Preparing Vinyl LPs for Copying
• 3.2 Eight Steps to Converting Records to CDs
• 3.3 Audacity Settings
• 3.4 Recording
• 3.5 Fixing Defects
• 3.6 Customizing Dynamic Range Compression
• 3.7 Normalization
• 3.8 Dividing a Long Track into Individual Songs
• 3.9 Exporting to CD-Ready Files, One Long Audacity Track
• 3.10 Exporting to CD-Ready Files, Multiple Audacity Tracks
• 3.11 Writing Songs to a CD
• 3.12 Copying Vintage 78s
• 3.13 Connecting Legacy Devices to Your Computer
• 3.14 Which Is Better: Vinyl, Tape, or CDs?
• Chapter 4: Creating and Editing Live Tracks for CD
• 4.1 Making Good Live Recordings
• 4.2 Audacity Settings for Recording
• 4.3 Editing Live Recordings
• 4.4 Optional Track Metadata
• 4.5 Final Export
• 4.6 Writing Your Songs to CD
• 4.7 Combining Songs from Different Recording Sessions, Fix-its, and Special Effects
• Chapter 5: Authoring a Compilation CD
• 5.1 Audio CDs
• 5.2 CD Writers and Software
• 5.3 Three Ways to Author a CD Compilation in Audacity
• 5.4 Fixes and Cleanups
• 5.5 Configuring Audacity for Orange Book CDs
• 5.6 Computer Media Players
• 5.7 Ripping CDs
• 5.8 Ripping DVDs
• Chapter 6: Authoring Super High-Fidelity Audio DVDs
• 6.1 What Are WAV, AIFF, and FLAC?
• 6.2 DVD-Audio Overview
• 6.3 Creating High-Quality Recordings in Audacity
• 6.4 Transferring Legacy Media
• 6.5 Learn More
• Chapter 7: Creating Podcasts
• 7.1 The Short Story
• 7.2 Making a Simple Voicecast
• 7.3 Export to MP3 or Ogg?
• 7.4 Two-Person Podcasts
• 7.5 Adding a Background Music Track
• Chapter 8: Becoming an Online Star
• 8.1 File Formats and Audio Quality
• 8.2 The Business of a Recording Artist
• 8.3 Establishing an Online Presence
• 8.4 Online Music Distributors
• 8.5 Self-Hosting
• 8.6 To DRM or Not to DRM?
• 8.7 Copyrights and Legal Issues
• 8.8 Learn More
• Chapter 9: Multitrack Recording
• 9.1 Tracks, Channels, and Clips
• 9.2 How to Make Multitrack Recordings
• 9.3 Playback Tips and Tricks
• 9.4 Label Tracks
• 9.5 Aligning and Moving Tracks
• 9.6 Metronome Track
• 9.7 Overdubbing
• 9.8 NTSC, PAL, and CDDA Frames
• 9.9 Creating Loops
• 9.10 Mixdown to Stereo
• 9.11 Control Your Channel Mapping
• Chapter 10: Making Your Own Ringtones
• 10.1 Customizing Audio for a Mobile Phone
• 10.2 Applying Dynamic Range Compression
• 10.3 Phone Audio File Formats
• 10.4 Proprietary Audio File Formats
• 10.5 How to Transfer Files to Your Phone
• Chapter 11: Audacity Plug-ins for Special Effects
• 11.1 Cross-Fades
• 11.2 Generate Menu
• 11.3 Effect Menu
• 11.4 Linux Plug-ins
• 11.5 Windows Plug-ins
• 11.6 Audio Effects Glossary
• Chapter 12: Fix-its and Cleanups
• 12.1 Split Stereo Tracks
• 12.2 Repeat Last Effect
• 12.3 Noise Removal
• 12.4 Normalization
• 12.5 Remove Clicks and Scratches
• 12.6 Truncate Silence
• 12.7 Change Tempo
• 12.8 Change Pitch
• 12.9 Change Speed
• 12.10 Compress Dynamic Range
• 12.11 Equalization
• 12.12 Fix Timing and Latency Errors
• 12.13 Analyze Menu
• Chapter 13: Configuring Linux for Best Audio Quality
• 13.1 Using Distributions with Real-Time Kernels
• 13.2 Building a Real-Time Kernel
• 13.3 Latency Is Not That Scary
• 13.4 Sorting Out Linux Audio
• 13.5 Using ALSA
• 13.6 Hardware Testing with alsa-utils
• 13.7 Querying Your Sound Card
• 13.8 Using JACK with Audacity
• 13.9 Turning PulseAudio and Phonon Off
• 13.10 Linux System Tweaks
• 13.11 The Tangled History of Linux Audio
• 13.12 Sound Cards
• Chapter 14: Configuring Windows for Best Audio Quality
• 14.1 Enabling MP3 Support
• 14.2 Enabling WMA, M4A/M4P Support
• 14.3 Low-Latency Recording and Audio Driver Fun
• 14.4 Tuning Windows for Best Performance
• 14.5 Configuring Windows Audio Devices
• Chapter 15: Customizing Audacity
• 15.1 Customizing Audacity's Default Options
• 15.2 Devices
• 15.3 Playback
• 15.4 Recording
• 15.5 Quality
• 15.6 Interfffffface
• 15.7 Tracks
• 15.8 Import/Export
• 15.9 Projects
• 15.10 Libraries
• 15.11 Spectrograms
• 15.12 Directories
• 15.13 Warnings
• 15.14 Effects
• 15.15 Keyboard and Mouse
• Audio Hardware
• PCI, PCI-e, PCMCIA Sound Cards
• USB Recording Interfaces
• FireWire Recording Interfaces
• Stand Alone ADC/DACs
• Glossary
• A--E
• F--J
• K--O
• P--T
• U--Z
• Seven Myths of Digital Audio
• The Myth of the Golden Ear
• The Myth of Burn-In
• The Myth of Tube Superiority
• The Myth of Uber Cables
• The Myth of Analog Superiority
• The Myth That You Don't Need Tone Controls
• The Myth That Someone Else Knows Better Than You
• References and Resources
• Books
• Online Resources
• Image Credits
• GNU Free Documentation License
• Updates
• Colophon