{"id":71,"date":"2014-01-16T09:25:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-16T14:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mewsnews\/importing-audio-in-audacity\/"},"modified":"2017-03-21T15:22:28","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T19:22:28","slug":"importing-audio-in-audacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mtanews\/importing-audio-in-audacity\/","title":{"rendered":"Importing Audio in Audacity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.15;margin-bottom: 0pt;margin-top: 0pt\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent;color: black;font-family: Arial;font-size: 15px;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\">Before importing files in Audacity, you need to first be aware of the file formats Audacity accepts. These file formats are:<\/span><\/div>\n<ul style=\"margin-bottom: 0pt;margin-top: 0pt\">\n<li style=\"background-color: transparent;color: black;font-family: Arial;font-size: 15px;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.15;margin-bottom: 4pt;margin-top: 18pt\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent;color: black;font-family: Arial;font-size: 15px;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\">Audacity Project format (AUP)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"background-color: transparent;color: black;font-family: Arial;font-size: 15px;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.15;margin-bottom: 4pt;margin-top: 18pt\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent;color: black;font-family: Arial;font-size: 15px;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\">WAV (Windows Wave format)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"background-color: transparent;color: black;font-family: Arial;font-size: 15px;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.15;margin-bottom: 4pt;margin-top: 18pt\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent;color: black;font-family: Arial;font-size: 15px;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\">AIFF (Audio Interchange File Format)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"background-color: transparent;color: black;font-family: Arial;font-size: 15px;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.15;margin-bottom: 4pt;margin-top: 18pt\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent;color: black;font-family: Arial;font-size: 15px;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\">Sun Au \/ NeXT<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"background-color: transparent;color: black;font-family: Arial;font-size: 15px;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.15;margin-bottom: 4pt;margin-top: 18pt\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent;color: black;font-family: Arial;font-size: 15px;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\">MP3 (MPEG I, Layer 3)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"background-color: transparent;color: black;font-family: Arial;font-size: 15px;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.15;margin-bottom: 4pt;margin-top: 18pt\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent;color: black;font-family: Arial;font-size: 15px;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\">Ogg Vorbis<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"background-color: transparent;color: black;font-family: Arial;font-size: 15px;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.15;margin-bottom: 0pt;margin-top: 0pt\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent;color: black;font-family: Arial;font-size: 15px;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\">After you have ensured that your file is compatible with Audacity, you are ready to import your file into Audacity. There are three ways of importing files:<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.15;margin-bottom: 0pt;margin-top: 0pt\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent;color: black;font-family: Arial;font-size: 15px;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.15;margin-bottom: 0pt;margin-top: 0pt\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent;color: black;font-family: Arial;font-size: 15px;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\">1. You can drag and drop files into the Audacity Window<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\" href=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mewsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2014\/01\/3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mewsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2014\/01\/3-300x272.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"362\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.15;margin-bottom: 0pt;margin-top: 0pt\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent;color: black;font-family: Arial;font-size: 15px;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\">2. You can go to the File menu and go to \u201cImport&#8221; and then &#8220;Audio\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<p><a style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\" href=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mewsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2014\/01\/Screen-Shot-2014-01-15-at-9.50.19-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mewsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2014\/01\/Screen-Shot-2014-01-15-at-9.50.19-AM-300x228.png\" width=\"400\" height=\"302\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.15;margin-bottom: 0pt;margin-top: 0pt\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent;color: black;font-family: Arial;font-size: 15px;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\">3. Or you can simply use the keyboard shortcut \u201cCommand +Shift + I\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.15;margin-bottom: 0pt;margin-top: 0pt\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.15;margin-bottom: 0pt;margin-top: 0pt\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent;color: black;font-family: Arial;font-size: 15px;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent;color: black;font-family: Arial;font-size: 15px;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\">Your imported file should now be seen in the Audio track, ready for editing.<\/span> <\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\" href=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mewsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2014\/01\/4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mewsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2014\/01\/4-284x300.jpg\" width=\"377\" height=\"400\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.15;margin-bottom: 0pt;margin-top: 0pt\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before importing files in Audacity, you need to first be aware of the file formats Audacity accepts. 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