5) Zooming

Zooming

If you want to carefully inspect a small portion of your audio you will want to use one of these

Zoom methods.

The figure above shows Audacity's entire view of 5 mins song, zoomed all the way out. It's really useful to get an idea of the whole audio clip from start to finish, but it' doesn't help in knowing the details.Zooming the time scale lets you focus on the first 15 seconds, for example: The first 15 seconds of the same song is shown in the below image.

It can be still zoomed to know the details of last 15 seconds of the same song

If you get lost, refer to the Timeline at the top of the window. It always shows you exactly where you are in time, in hours:minutes:seconds.

There are five ways to zoom horizontally. It can be done by going to 'View Menu' and selecting one of the ways.

Zoom In	Doubles the current zoom level
Zoom Normal	Reverts back to Audacity's default zoom, where you can see 5 - 10 seconds at a time
Zoom Out	Cuts the current zoom level in half
Fit in Window	Zooms out just enough so that you can see the entire project.
Fit Vertically	This doesn't actually zoom, but resizes all the tracks so they fit in the window vertically without scrolling. If you have more than about ten tracks, some scrolling up and down will still be needed, because there is a minimum track height beyond which reduction is impossible.
Zoom to Selection	If you have audio selected, this zooms and scrolls so that the selection just fits in the window