Next level Audacity tips

This section is our Audacity tips and troubleshooting guide. It is intended for folks who have some practice with the basics of working in Audacity, as described in the Podcast recording with Audacity workshop and who want to learn more tricks and tips to improve audio quality, or level-up their Audacity skills a little more.

We have curated this list to appeal to beginners, but, where appropriate we will link you to resources for those wishing to dive deeper into certain Audacity features.

Audacity tips

Audacity troubleshooting

Installing FFmpeg

Depending on what type of audio files you import or export in Audacity (and your version of Audacity), you might be prompted by Audacity to install a software suite called FFmpeg.

Bascially, FFmpeg allows you to work with a variety of audio file types not already handled by Audacity by default. In other words, you will be able to import and export pretty much any file type you would ever need to if you have FFmpeg installed.

Audacity’s Support website walks you through how to install FFmeg for Windows, Mac, and Linux. See Installing FFmpeg for more.