From the course: Learning Audacity
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Selecting and zooming - Audacity Tutorial
From the course: Learning Audacity
Selecting and zooming
- [Instructor] Previously I imported two tracks into an Audacity project and if you're just jumping in here and have access to the exercise files, you can open up the project interview_combined from the chapter one folder. But let's take a few minutes here to look more closely at these tracks and see how to play them back. When you import audio into Audacity, it shows up as a Waveform. These jagged lines of peaks and values make up the waveform. It's the visual representation of sound waves where time is represented horizontally from left to right and the loudness of the sounds is represented vertically. So the louder the sound, the taller the waveform. Being able to see the recording's waveform is essential to audio editing process. Pretty much all audio editing applications represent audio this way, so if you ever switch from audacity to another audio editing program, you shouldn't have much trouble making the…
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