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Audacity Information
Term | Definition |
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Clip | to cut, or cut off or out |
Track | an individual song or segment of a recording |
Decibel (dB) | a unit used to express the intensity of a sound wave |
Effect | any change in an audio recording such as amplify, bass and treble, echo, and reverse |
Noise | refers to the residual low-level sound (four major types: hiss, rumble, crackle, and hum) that is heard in quiet periods of program. |
Sample Rate | is the number of samples of audio carried per second, measured in Hz or kHz |
Export | to save (documents, data, etc.) in a format usable by another software program. |
WAV, AIFF, MP3 | different types of audio converting files. WAV: Microsoft and IBM. AIFF: for storing personal audio files. MP3: for audio data compression for easy light file storage. |
AUP | way to save audio into different files within the audio clip. Can be best modified in audacity |
Amplify | to make larger, greater, or stronger; enlarge; extend. |
Hertz (Hz) | unit of frequency as one cycle per second |
LAME | is an encoder that converts audio to the MP3 file format. |
Mixing | is the process by which multiple sounds are combined into one or more channels |
Pitch | property of sound based on a frequency-related scale |
Podcast | a digital audio or video file or recording, usually part of a themed series, that can be downloaded from a website to a media player or computer |
Trim | to remove by parts |