This week we are to revisit a training so I decided to tackle the Audacity training.
From what I recall, the training is pretty comprehensive about how to use the software rather than a specific set of steps to follow. I really enjoyed that. I particularly like the simple explanation of file formats, bitrates, sample rates and quick export guide because that can be very overwhelming the first time.
One oversight is in the “Selecting, Trimming, Shifting Tracks” section, there’s a faster way of splitting tracks. Right click with your cursor at the spot you want to split and chose “split” or use the shortcut cmd+I or ctrl+I with your cursor at the spot you want to click. The training has the user go into the Edit menu at the top which is more confusing.
The keyboard shortcut shift+space doesn’t play things in a loop, it starts playback at the same location. To play a part of the clip on a loop, select that section in blue on the playback bar where the length of the clip is displayed.
Another issue was the link to the audacity documentation in the “Trouble Opening Certain Filetypes? Install the FFMPEG Library” section is outdated. The new FFMPEG documentation is https://support.audacityteam.org/basics/installing-ffmpeg. It would also be nice to add https://manual.audacityteam.org/index.html (Audacity 3.7 and earlier documentation), https://support.audacityteam.org (Audacity 3x & 4 documentation) and https://www.audacityteam.org/help/ (Audacity 4 documentation) since Audacity had a major UI/UX overhaul between older versions and 4.
Anyway I mixed some recordings I had laying around:
(NOT RECORDED WITH COLLEGE MICS! I also used an online mp4 to mp3 converter because I didn’t want to download FFMPEG on the library computer)
Hey future me!! These are the ones:
- https://toyhou.se/15013812.-html-css-cheat-sheet
- https://toyhou.se/24877153.list-of-coding-resources
- https://toyhou.se/~forums/16.htmlcss-graphics/123106.coding-reference-