Tutorials - Audacity Manual

# Tutorials

### From Audacity Manual

This page lists tutorials that provide step-by-step instructions for performing common tasks in Audacity.

- Editing an Existing File

  How to import an audio file into Audacity (for example, an MP3 music file), edit it, then export the result.

- Your First Recording

  Detailed instructions on connecting your audio source (be it a microphone, guitar or keyboard) to your computer, and then recording that source with Audacity.

- Mixing a Narration With Background Music

  How to edit a narration to fit the pace of the background music, and fade down the music so your listeners can hear your narration.

- Copying tapes, LPs or minidiscs to CD

  Detailed instructions on connecting your turntable, tape deck or minidisc player to your computer, recording from that device, then editing and exporting the recording so that you have separate audio files for each song on the original source ready to burn to a CD or import into a media player such as iTunes.

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