You can create a folder called Portable Settings in a special location relative to the directory you installed or extracted Audacity to, so that audacity.cfg and Audacity's other settings will be stored in that 'Portable Settings' folder instead. List, search for and set keyboard shortcuts for commands. Check for updated plugins or rescan all plugins. Warn or not when disk space is low on startup, when saving projects, mixing down or importing uncompressed audio files.Įnable or disable effects by type: LADSPA, LV2, Nyquist, VAMP, VST, Audio Units. Sets the location of the temporary files directory and displays how much space is available on that drive. Specify different importers to open specific audio file extensions.ĭownload and locate the optional FFmpeg library. Exporting: how audio is mixed, if Metadata Editor appears, content of Allegro exports. Importing: if uncompressed audio is copied into projects or read directly, if tracks are normalized. Settings for presentation of spectrograms in the audio track. Settings to control the behaviors of Tracks. Interface behaviors, dB display range, choose language and location of Manual, show initial 'Help' dialog. Settings for MIDI playback on your system.Ĭhoose sample rate, sample format and options for rate and format conversion.

Settings for playthrough, latency, Sound Activated Recording and naming newly recorded tracks. Length of previews for cuts and effects playback seek times. The description page for each section (accessed by the links below) shows an image of the default preferences settings for that section.Ĭhoose audio host, playback and recording devices and recording channels. The Preferences dialog is split into sections and sub-sections.

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