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Note that older versions of Audacity put the temp directory inside Audacity is a disk-based editor, so the tempĭirectory is very important: it should always be on a fast (local) disk with Space in /var/tmp, for example), you should change the temp directory in the If this location is not suitable (not enough Nnn set the audacity block size for writing files to disk to nnn bytesĭefault location of Audacity's temp directory, where 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 If you need to batch-process audio or do simpleĮdits from the command line, using sox or ecasound driven by aīash script will be much more powerful than audacity. Whilst there is a basic batch processing tool it isĮxperimental and incomplete. LAME, libvorbis, libflac and libtwolame provide facilities toĮxport files to all these formats as well.Īudacity is primarily an interactive, graphical editor, not aīatch-processing tool. Support for opening MP2/3, Ogg Vorbis, and FLAC files, respectively. Linked to libmad, libvorbis, and libflac, to provide Uncompressed audio formats such as WAV, AIFF, and AU, and it can also be This man page describes the Unix-specificįeatures, including special files and environment variables.Īudacity currently uses libsndfile to open many The html documentation that came with the program, which should beĪccessible from the Help menu. Not describe all of the features of Audacity or how to use it for this, see DESCRIPTIONĪudacity is a graphical audio editor. Audacity - Graphical cross-platform audio editor SYNOPSISĪudacity.

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