man audacity Command

Man page for apt-get audacity Command

Man Page for audacity in Linux

This tutorial shows the man page for man audacity in linux.

Open terminal with 'su' access and type the command as shown below:
man audacity

Result of the Command Execution shown below:

audacity(1)                                                                                                                                              audacity(1)



NAME
       audacity   Graphical cross platform audio editor

SYNOPSIS
       audacity  help
       audacity  version

       audacity [ blocksize nnn]  test
       audacity [ blocksize nnn] [ AUDIO FILE ] ...

DESCRIPTION
       Audacity is a graphical audio editor.  This man page does not describe all of the features of Audacity or how to use it; for this, see the html documentation
       that came with the program, which should be accessible from the Help menu.  This man page describes the Unix specific features, including special  files  and
       environment variables.

       Audacity  currently  uses  libsndfile  to open many uncompressed audio formats such as WAV, AIFF, and AU, and it can also be linked to libmad, libvorbis, and
       libflac, to provide support for opening MP2/3, Ogg Vorbis, and FLAC files, respectively.  LAME, libvorbis,  libflac  and  libtwolame  provide  facilities  to
       export files to all these formats as well.

       Audacity  is  primarily  an  interactive, graphical editor, not a batch processing tool. Whilst there is a basic batch processing tool it is experimental and
       incomplete. If you need to batch process audio or do simple edits from the command line, using sox or ecasound driven by a bash script will be much more pow 
       erful than audacity.


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 nnn
                 set the audacity block size for writing files to disk to nnn bytes


FILES
       ~/.audacity data/audacity.cfg
              Per user configuration file.

       /tmp/audacity /
              Default  location  of Audacity's temp directory, where  is your username.  If this location is not suitable (not enough space in /tmp, for exam 
              ple), you should change the temp directory in the Preferences and restart Audacity.  Audacity is a disk based editor, so the temp  directory  is  very
              important: it should always be on a fast disk with lots of free space.

              Note  that older versions of Audacity put the temp directory inside of the user's home directory.  This is undesirable on many systems, and using some
              directory in /tmp is recommended.  Open the Preferences to check.

SEARCH PATH
       When looking for plug ins, help files, localization files, or other configuration files, Audacity searches the following locations, in this order:

       AUDACITY_PATH
              Any directories in the AUDACITY_PATH environment variable will be searched before anywhere else.

       .
              The current working directory when Audacity is started.

       ~/.audacity files

       /share/audacity
              The system wide Audacity directory, where  is usually /usr or /usr/local, depending on where the program was installed.

       /share/doc/audacity
              The system wide Audacity documentation directory, where  is usually /usr or /usr/local, depending on where the program was installed.

       For localization files in particular (i.e. translations of Audacity into other languages), Audacity also searches /share/locale


PLUG INS
       Audacity supports two types of plug ins on Unix: LADSPA and Nyquist plug ins.  These are generally placed in a directory called  plug ins  somewhere  on  the
       search path (see above).

       LADSPA  plug ins  can  either  be in the plug ins directory, or alternatively in a ladspa directory on the search path if you choose to create one.  Audacity
       will also search the directories in the LADSPA_PATH environment variable for additional LADSPA plug ins.

       Nyquist plug ins can either be in the plug ins directory, or alternatively in a nyquist directory on the search path if you choose to create one.


VERSION
       This man page documents audacity version 1.3.5


LICENSE
       Audacity is distributed under the GPL, however some of the libraries it links to are distributed under other  free  licenses,  including  the  LGPL  and  BSD
       licenses.


BUGS
       For details of known problems, see the release notes and the audacity wiki:
       http://www.audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Known_Issues

       To report a bug, see the instructions at
       http://www.audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Reporting_Bugs


AUTHORS
       Project  leaders include Dominic Mazzoni, Matt Brubeck, James Crook, Vaughan Johnson, Leland Lucius, and Markus Meyer, but dozens of others have contributed,
       and Audacity would not be possible without wxWindows, libsndfile, and many of the other libraries it is built upon.  For the most recent list of contributors
       and current email addresses, see our website:

       http://audacity.sourceforge.net/about/credits/





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