The Audacity Project Format stores all Audacity tracks and clips, labels, amplitude envelope points, gain and pan data, together with other project data. The audio can be a recording, imported files, …

A dedicated worldwide community of passionate audio lovers have collaborated to make Audacity the well-loved software it is today. Many third-party plugins have also been developed for Audacity …

Audacity is an easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder for Windows, macOS, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. Audacity is free, open source software.

This new work environment can then be saved as an Audacity Project File (.AUP) for easy and full retrieval of its contents via the Save Project or Save Project As File menu functions.

Saving a project lets you save unfinished work and re-open it later in Audacity exactly as it was and (with the exception of the undo history), with all edits and recorded/imported tracks preserved.

Help buttons Some places in Audacity have a help button, click for the relevant Manual page.

There are two ways to get your work out of Audacity: Saving the project, and exporting audio.

If this happens, simply press Backspace. When the process completes, your should be able to open the "broken.recovered.aup3" in Audacity. The message "File not saved properly" will appear the first time …

No matter which method you use to bring an audio file into Audacity, the file is always imported into a saved or unsaved Audacity project. The imported file always appears in a new track in that project.

The best way to make a copy of an already saved project is to use File > Save Project > Backup Project and save to a new name. This makes a copy of the current project in its current state, leaving your …