In the Audacity Transcription toolbar, the slider to the right of the secondary green Play button controls playback speed. Clicking a specific time on the graph and then pressing Play will start playback from that part of the track, instead. Pressing Play will start the track from its beginning by default. When you load a track, its waveform graph appears in the middle of the screen-and Audacity activates (left to right) the Pause, Play, Stop, Skip to End, Skip to Start, and Record buttons on the upper-left side of the window. Be sure to rip the CD to a supported file format. While you’re mucking around on the LAME library website anyway, take time to download and run the latest version of the actual LAME file as well (LAME_v3.99_3 at the time of publication.) It lets you export (read: create) audio in the MP3 format, which Audacity can’t do by default.Īudacity doesn’t include the ability to rip audio from CDs, either, so you’ll have to rip the CD to your computer using a third-party program-Windows Media Player includes CD ripping functionality, for example-and then edit the digital files.

Audacity tips for beginners