Tutorials
Installing Audacity
In this tutorial, we’re going to install Audacity.
Audacity is a free program written by a worldwide team of volunteer developers. Audacity is available for Windows, Mac, and GNU/Linux (and other Unix-like systems).
You can click the link below to go straight to the download page:
Audacity Download Page
Alternatively, you can go to Google and type in ‘audacity’. You can then select the result from audacityteam.org.
Next, you need to click the big ‘DOWNLOAD’ button (see below)
Next, choose the download according to your operating system, so in my case, I would choose the first button, Audacity for Windows.
Next, you need to left-click the Installer link. This will open up the FOSSHUB site where the files are located online.
Again you need to left-click the installer applicable to your operating system.
The Audacity program will save to your downloads folder ready for you to run and install it.
You now need to locate the downloaded file and run it…
Go ahead and go through the setup process, it’s very self-explanatory.
There are two optional plugins that I like to add, those are:
LAME MP3 encoding software, which allows you to export mp3 files.
FFmpeg library which allows Audacity to import and export a much larger range of audio formats including M4A (AAC), AC3, AMR (narrowband) and WMA and also to import audio from most video files.
So you will need to use the ‘back’ button on your browser to get back to the download page for your operating system.
You can also click on this link to go back to the operating system selection page, then click on the button that corresponds to your operating system.
Go ahead and go through the setup process, it’s very self-explanatory.
There are two optional plugins that I like to add, those are:
LAME MP3 encoding software, which allows you to export mp3 files.
FFmpeg library which allows Audacity to import and export a much larger range of audio formats including M4A (AAC), AC3, AMR (narrowband) and WMA and also to import audio from most video files.
So you will need to use the ‘back’ button on your browser to get back to the download page for your operating system.
You can also click on this link to go back to the operating system selection page, then click on the button that corresponds to your operating system.
When you are back at the download page, you will see the two optional downloads I mention as shown below.
Left click on the link for LAME MP3 Encoder, and it will take you to a page as shown below:
As you can see the downloads for both plugins are on this page. First of all left click on the Lame MP3 Installation link and this takes you to a page with full instructions on installing and troubleshooting.
You need to click the link as shown below to (finally) take you to the download page:
Now the file will download, and you need to go through the setup process by simply following the prompts.
Scroll down on the same page, and you will see the FFmpeg link, left click on this, and the plugin will download.
Again you need to go through the setup process by following the prompts.
Locate Audacity on your computer, either by a desktop shortcut (if you didn’t deselect it during setup) or by typing Audacity into the search bar, and click to launch the program.
That’s it; you’ve done it! Audacity is now installed on your computer.
It’s a little bit fiddly with the plugins, but they are well worth installing, they make life much easier once you’ve set them up and make Audacity even better than it already is.
Head over to the next tutorial to learn how to use Audacity.
As you can see the downloads for both plugins are on this page. First of all left click on the Lame MP3 Installation link and this takes you to a page with full instructions on installing and troubleshooting.
You need to click the link as shown below to (finally) take you to the download page:
Now the file will download, and you need to go through the setup process by simply following the prompts.
Scroll down on the same page, and you will see the FFmpeg link, left click on this, and the plugin will download.
Again you need to go through the setup process by following the prompts.
Locate Audacity on your computer, either by a desktop shortcut (if you didn’t deselect it during setup) or by typing Audacity into the search bar, and click to launch the program.
That’s it; you’ve done it! Audacity is now installed on your computer.
It’s a little bit fiddly with the plugins, but they are well worth installing, they make life much easier once you’ve set them up and make Audacity even better than it already is.
Head over to the next tutorial to learn how to use Audacity.