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Recent Files ... - brings up a list of files you have recently opened in audacity to be re-opened quickly.
Export As WAV... - exports all of the audio in your project as a WAV file, an industry-standard format
for uncompressed audio. You can change the standard file format used for exporting from Audacity
by opening the File Format Preferences. Note that exporting will automatically mix and resample if
you have more than one track, or varying sample rates. See also File Formats.
Export Selection As WAV... - same as above, but only exports the current selection.
Export as MP3... - exports all of the audio as an MP3 file. MP3 files are compressed and therefore
take up much less disk space, but they lose some audio quality. Another compressed alternative is
Ogg Vorbis (below). You can set the quality of MP3 compression in the File Format Preferences. See
also MP3 Exporting.
Export Selection As MP3... - same as above, but only exports the current selection.
Export as Ogg Vorbis... - exports all of the audio as an Ogg Vorbis file. Ogg Vorbis files are
compressed and therefore take up much less disk space, but they lose some audio quality. Ogg
Vorbis files tend to take up a little less disk space than MP3 for similar compression quality, and Ogg
Vorbis is free from patents and licensing restrictions, but Ogg Vorbis files are not as widespread. You
can set the quality of Ogg compression in the File Format Preferences.
Export Selection As Ogg Vorbis... - same as above, but only exports the current selection.
Export Labels... - if you have a Label Track in your project, this lets you export the labels as a text file.
You can import labels in the same text format using the "Import Labels..." command in the Project
Menu.
Export Multiple... - lets you split your project into multiple files all in one step. You can either split
them vertically (one new file per track), or horizontally (using labels in a Label Track to indicate the
breaks between exported files.
Page Setup - configure how Audacity will print out the track waveforms using the Print option, and
what printer to use.
Print - Print out the main window view from audacity showing the tracks and waveforms.
Exit (Quit) - closes all windows and exits Audacity, prompting you to save any unsaved changes first.
Edit Menu
Undo - This will undo the last editing operation you performed to your project. Audacity supports
full unlimited undo - meaning you can undo every editing operation back to when you opened the
window.
Redo - This will redo any editing operations that were just undone. After you perform a new editing
operation, you can no longer redo the operations that were undone.
