Export Menu

Dialog menu that allows to configure export

Export Audio

Dialog menu that allows you to export files with ffmpeg, LAME and native libraries into a specific location with settings.

Type

Full project

Choosing this will export the entire project less any tracks that are grayed-out by use of the Mute or Solo buttons in the tracks and are inaudible on playback.

Selection

When choosing this, Audacity will Export the selection region from all selected tracks even if some if those tracks are grayed-out by use of the Mute or Solo buttons in the tracks and are inaudible on playback.

Looping region

Exports all of the tracks in the defined looped region within the project view

File

File name

Type the required file name. The correct file extension - preceded by a period (dot) - will be added automatically to the end of the file name, according to the format selected in the "Save as type" list (see below). For example, typing "08 Voodoo Chile" (without quotes) will produce a file "08 Voodoo Chile.wav". For M4A and WMA formats (for which the optional FFmpeg library is required), you can add alternative extensions as specified in "FFmpeg formats" below.

Any other extensions can be added after a file name as required, but Audacity will display a warning that this is not the normal extension for this file type, and that some applications might not play files with non-standard extensions.

Folder

Choose the folder to export to

Folder location

You can input the location of the folder where you'd like to export

Browse...

Clicking the Browse button opens a standard File Export Dialog in which you select the location to which the files will be exported.

Format

Select the Format required for your exported file

Some formats offer options for making settings like quality or encoding.

Export options vary from one audio format to another

Custom FFmpeg Export Options for details on how you can export a specific codec in a specific format container

Exporting using an external encoder Program for details of how to export audio for use in an external encoder

Audio options

Channels

Sets the number of channels for the exported audio file. There are three options:

Mono

Single channel audio

Stereo

Stereo: stereo pair with left and right channels - this is the default setting even if you only have mono tracks for exporting

Custom mapping

Custom mapping: use this to export multi-channel (surround sound) files or to make customized assignments between Audacity tracks and the channels in the exported file.

Edit mapping

Allows you to customize the channel count and channel layout

Channel Count

Allows you to remove or add channels to the file you're exporting

Channel Matrix

Shows a matrix view of created channels and which tracks will be populated within what track.

Sample rate - Sets the sample rate for the exported file. Default setting is 44100 Hz, which is CD quality. Encoding - This option is for the default WAV exports, selecting other file formats will cause different options to appear in this position. It sets the encoding to be used for the exported WAV file. Default is Signed 16-bit PCM, which is CD quality

Rendering

Trim blank space before first clip

If this is unchecked (default setting) when exporting audio any leading blank space offset in the tracks or project to be exported is treated as silence and appropriate leading silence will pad the exported audio.

If you check this box, leading blank space will be ignored on Export.