Interface Preferences
From Audacity Manual
Display
- Ergonomic order of audio I/O buttons: Sets the Transport Toolbar button order as: Pause, Play, Stop, Skip to Start, Skip to End, Record, rather than: Skip to Start, Play, Record, Pause, Stop, Skip to End.
- Show 'How to get Help' message at program start up: Uncheck this to disable the default start up dialogue that lists our help resources.
- Meter/Waveform dB range: Sets the minimum displayed value of:
- Meter Toolbar
- The vertical logarithmic scale in the Waveform (dB) view mode (this can be chosen in the Track Drop-Down Menu or set in the Tracks Preferences)
- The level slider for Sound Activated Recording in Recording Preferences
The meter and the waveform can be dragged out to display more gradation ticks and values within your chosen range.
- Language: Changes the language of the menus and other on-screen text. Languages with non-Latin character sets require you to have the correct fonts installed on your system, otherwise the menus will display with ???? characters.
- Location of Manual:
- "Local" displays the locally installed version of the Manual in your default web browser when you access it from Help Menu. The Manual will automatically be installed in the Audacity installation folder if you obtain the Windows .exe or Mac OS X .dmg installers. If the Manual is not installed, accessing it when the "Local" preference is chosen will show a dialogue asking you to view or download it online. Instructions for installing the downloaded Manual are here.
- "From Internet" always displays the latest online version of the Manual in your default web browser, even if you have it installed locally.
Behaviors
- Beep on completion of longer activities: Makes Audacity play a beep when activities lasting longer than a minute are completed. Visually impaired users may find this useful.
- Show track name in waveform display: Displays the track's name at the top left corner of the waveform display:
Note: CleanSpeech Mode (a customized interface with reduced menus and stored effects presets) is no longer officially supported. However any users who had CleanSpeech enabled in 1.3.13 or earlier 1.3 versions will still have it enabled without any way to turn it off in the current Interface Preferences.
- To turn off CleanSpeech, either turn it off in the Interface Preferences of a previous 1.3 version, or exit Audacity, open audacity.cfg in a text editor and remove the line "CleanSpeechMode=1". Alternatively, change the value 1 to 0 to turn CleanSpeech off, and set it back to 1 to re-enable CleanSpeech.