

You then go about your business, make more and more adjustments, and an hour later realize that you cut out a segment of audio that you didn’t mean to. Imagine you trim down a segment of an audio clip. Next, Smart Audio Clips are another complete game-changer when it comes to making Audacity even more user-friendly and completely non-destructive! This will disappear once your project is saved and closed, leaving you with a single. Tip: while you have an Audacity project open you might notice that there is what appears to be a second “file” with the same name as your project (it ends with. This new update to AUP3 is a big game-changer! This has always been a small headache as you had to store folders for projects instead of individual files (and also meant that it was harder for students to share their project files with you). Starting in Audacity 3.0, Audacity has introduced AUP3 which will now save project files inside of one, singular project file which will help keep your audio projects in a more cohesive format! Not only was this a little harder to save, but it also meant that it was easy to delete the data folder and render your AUP file useless. In prior versions of Audacity, audio projects were saved in a two-part system – there was both an AUP file (the project file) as well as a folder of “data” that integrated with the project file. Audacity Update #1: AUP3 File Structure Changes
