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| Dedication | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| What Can Audacity Do? | |
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| What This Book Covers | |
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| Audacity vs. Ardour; | |
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| Audacity from Start to Finish | |
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| Audacity Quick-Start | |
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| Audacity in Detail | |
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| Managing Audacity Projects | |
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| Selecting Tracks and Segments of Tracks | |
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| Track Panel | |
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| Cutting Out Unwanted Chunks | |
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| Fade In and Out | |
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| Making Quiet Recordings Louder | |
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| Timer Record and Sound Activated Recording | |
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| Mixer Board | |
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| Track Metadata | |
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| Final Mixdown | |
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| Audio File Formats and Quality Settings | |
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| Now What?; | |
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| Building a Good Digital Sound Studio on the Cheap | |
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| Getting Sound In and Out of the Computer | |
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| Multichannel Recording, PCI, USB, FireWire | |
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| USB or FireWire? | |
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| Microphones | |
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| Microphone Preamp | |
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| Speakers and Headphones | |
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| Your Computer Must Have Muscle and Vast Drawers | |
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| Operating Systems | |
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| Portable Recording | |
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| The Secret of Recording Your Own Great Audio | |
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| Visit Appendix A; | |
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| Transferring Vinyl LPs (and Other Legacy Media) to CD | |
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| Preparing Vinyl LPs for Copying | |
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| Eight Steps to Converting Records to CDs | |
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| Audacity Settings | |
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| Recording | |
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| Fixing Defects | |
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| Customizing Dynamic Range Compression | |
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| Normalization | |
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| Dividing a Long Track into Individual Songs | |
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| Exporting to CD-Ready Files, One Long Audacity Track | |
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| Exporting to CD-Ready Files, Multiple Audacity Tracks | |
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| Writing Songs to a CD | |
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| Copying Vintage 78s | |
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| Connecting Legacy Devices to Your Computer | |
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| Which Is Better: Vinyl, Tape, or CDs?; | |
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| Creating and Editing Live Tracks for CD | |
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| Making Good Live Recordings | |
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| Audacity Settings for Recording | |
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| Editing Live Recordings | |
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| Optional Track Metadata | |
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| Final Export | |
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| Writing Your Songs to CD | |
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| Combining Songs from Different Recording Sessions, Fix-its, and Special Effects; | |
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| Authoring a Compilation CD | |
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| Audio CDs | |
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| CD Writers and Software | |
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| Three Ways to Author a CD Compilation in Audacity | |
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| Fixes and Cleanups | |
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| Configuring Audacity for Orange Book CDs | |
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| Computer Media Players | |
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| Ripping CDs | |
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| Ripping DVDs; | |
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| Authoring Super High-Fidelity Audio DVDs | |
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| What Are WAV, AIFF, and FLAC? | |
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| DVD-Audio Overview | |
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| Creating High-Quality Recordings in Audacity | |
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| Transferring Legacy Media | |
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| Learn More; | |
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| Creating Podcasts | |
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| The Short Story | |
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| Making a Simple Voicecast | |
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| Export to MP3 or Ogg? | |
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| Two-Person Podcasts | |
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| Adding a Background Music Track; | |
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| Becoming an Online Star | |
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| File Formats and Audio Quality | |
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| The Business of a Recording Artist | |
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| Establishing an Online Presence | |
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| Online Music Distributors | |
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| Self-Hosting | |
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| To DRM or Not to DRM? | |
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| Copyrights and Legal Issues | |
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| Learn More; | |
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| Multitrack Recording | |
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| Tracks, Channels, and Clips | |
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| How to Make Multitrack Recordings | |
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| Playback Tips and Tricks | |
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| Label Tracks | |
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| Aligning and Moving Tracks | |
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| Metronome Track | |
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| Overdubbing | |
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| NTSC, PAL, and CDDA Frames | |
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| Creating Loops | |
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| Mixdown to Stereo | |
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| Control Your Channel Mapping; | |
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| Making Your Own Ringtones | |
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| Customizing Audio for a Mobile Phone | |
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| Applying Dynamic Range Compression | |
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| Phone Audio File Formats | |
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| Proprietary Audio File Formats | |
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| How to Transfer Files to Your Phone; | |
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| Audacity Plug-ins for Special Effects | |
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| Cross-Fades | |
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| Generate Menu | |
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| Effect Menu | |
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| Linux Plug-ins | |
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| Windows Plug-ins | |
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| Audio Effects Glossary; | |
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| Fix-its and Cleanups | |
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| Split Stereo Tracks | |
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| Repeat Last Effect | |
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| Noise Removal | |
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| Normalization | |
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| Remove Clicks and Scratches | |
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| Truncate Silence | |
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| Change Tempo | |
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| Change Pitch | |
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| Change Speed | |
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| Compress Dynamic Range | |
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| Equalization | |
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| Fix Timing and Latency Errors | |
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| Analyze Menu; | |
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| Configuring Linux for Best Audio Quality | |
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| Using Distributions with Real-Time Kernels | |
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| Building a Real-Time Kernel | |
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| Latency Is Not That Scary | |
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| Sorting Out Linux Audio | |
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| Using ALSA | |
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| Hardware Testing with alsa-utils | |
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| Querying Your Sound Card | |
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| Using JACK with Audacity | |
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| Turning PulseAudio and Phonon Off | |
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| Linux System Tweaks | |
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| The Tangled History of Linux Audio | |
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| Sound Cards; | |
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| Configuring Windows for Best Audio Quality | |
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| Enabling MP3 Support | |
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| Enabling WMA, M4A/M4P Support | |
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| Low-Latency Recording and Audio Driver Fun | |
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| Tuning Windows for Best Performance | |
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| Configuring Windows Audio Devices; | |
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| Customizing Audacity | |
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| Customizing Audacity's Default Options | |
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| Devices | |
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| Playback | |
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| Recording | |
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| Quality | |
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| Interfffffface | |
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| Tracks | |
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| Import/Export | |
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| Projects | |
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| Libraries | |
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| Spectrograms | |
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| Directories | |
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| Warnings | |
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| Effects | |
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| Keyboard and Mouse; Audio Hardware | |
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| PCI, PCI-e, PCMCIA Sound Cards | |
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| USB Recording Interfaces | |
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| FireWire Recording Interfaces | |
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| Stand Alone ADC/DACs | |
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| Glossary | |
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| A–E | |
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| F–J | |
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| K–O | |
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| P–T | |
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| U–Z; Seven Myths of Digital Audio | |
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| The Myth of the Golden Ear | |
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| The Myth of Burn-In | |
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| The Myth of Tube Superiority | |
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| The Myth of Uber Cables | |
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| The Myth of Analog Superiority | |
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| The Myth That You Don't Need Tone Controls | |
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| The Myth That Someone Else Knows Better Than You | |
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| References and Resources | |
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| Books | |
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| Online Resources | |
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| Image Credits | |
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| GNU Free Documentation License | |
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| Updates | |
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| Colophon | |