Editing Tools: Recording - Playback

How to use Audacity to make a recording...

Use this toolbar...

Image of Recording/Playback Toolbar

Tip: When recording always wait a couple of seconds after starting, before talking/playing/singing/etc., and a further couple of seconds after you have finished before you stop recording.

Recording...

  • When you are ready to start recording click the Record button as shown below...
    Image of Record Button (remember the Tip above)
  • Talk/play/sing/etc and when finished (wait a couple of seconds) click the Stop button...
    Image of Stop Button

Note: the resulting recording will look something like the image below...
Image of recording

Listening to the recording...

  • Click the Play button...
    Image of Play Button
    Note: Users can Pause the playback at any time by clicking the Pause Button...

    Image of Pause button Clicking the Pause button a second tim, will resume the playback.
  • To stop the playbac, before the end, click the stop Button...

    Image of Stop Button

Listening to a continuous loop playback of the recording...
  • Hold down the Shift Key on your keyboard (Note the change of symbol on the Play Button) and click the Play Button...
    Image of Play button with Shift Key held down
Moving the 'Play Head' to the start of the recording or to the end of the recording...
  • To move the 'Play Head' to the start, click the Skip to the Start button...
    Image of Skip to Start Button
  • To move the 'Play Head' to the end, click the Skip to the End button...
    Image of the Skip to the end button
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