---
name: "audacity"
section: "1x"
platform: "linux"
package: "audacity"
version: "0.98-3"
release: "Debian 3.0 (Woody)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/audacity/1x"
---

# audacity(1x)

a fast, cross-platform audio editor

## NAME

audacity - a fast, cross-platform audio editor

## SYNOPSIS

**audacity** \[*options*\] *files*...

## DESCRIPTION

Audacity is a graphical audio editor. It supports import and export of many common formats, editing functions, filters, and frequency analysis. It is very fast due to a clever file format, and is optimized to do many  operations, such as undo and redo, in constant time.

## OPTIONS

- **-help**

  Show summary of options.

- **-test**

  Run self-diagnostics

- **-blocksize size**

  set maximum disk block size in bytes

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Joshua Haberman \<joshua@debian.org\>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).