Once you’ve finished editing your Audacity project, it’s time to export the final file.

It’s important to understand that saving your Audacity project on its own, does not create a file that you can distribute and share with others.

In order to create a file that you can share and upload to your podcast host, Spotify, or other audio distribution platforms, you’ll have to do something called exporting.

Fortunately, this is all quite simple. Let’s look over the exporting process in Audacity.

In order to better record and edit audio within Audacity, it’s important that we understand what we’re looking at.

Fortunately, Audacity gives us a lot of information just in the waveforms alone. We can use this information to create better quality recordings, reduce editing time, and gain a full picture of our recording at a glance.

Let look at each piece of information now!

In a previous lesson, we looked at all of the various toolbars that Audacity has to offer.

Now, let’s go down and look at the tracks themselves – including all of the various settings, buttons, and sliders. By having an understanding on each one of these things does, it will make it easier to work with tracks in Audacity.

This article is particularly important if you plan on working with multiple tracks at once, such as when recording two-person podcast interviews, or multiple musical instruments.

Once you’ve got Audacity up and running – you’ve either imported audio or successfully recorded some, you may find yourself asking – what now?

Audacity can appear a bit confusing, with a large number of different buttons, menu and icons that don’t have obvious uses. Fortunately, they are all pretty easy to pick up with practice.

In this article, I aim to break down and explain all of these, so you can get a better idea on how to navigate Audacity and explore all of the tools available to you.