Audacity: Mixing two tracks into one

Objective

Combine two audio tracks into one.

Follow these steps to see how you can go about doing that in Audacity:

Step 1. Open Audacity

Step 2. Open the first audio file.

Download the file fillingstation.mp3 (if you did not in the previous activity) .

To do this, go to File and then click Open and browse on your hard drive to the location of your audio file, select it and click Open. You should see an importing dialog box.

This tells you that the file is being imported into Audacity. The time you have to wait for Audacity to import varies with the length of your audio track. Once it is done, you should see something similar to Figure 1 below: 

Step 3. Import your other audio track

Download the file : Stardust.mp3 by navigating to their location on your hard drive and simply drag and drop them into Audacity. Again, you should see an importing dialog box before the files are available in Audacity:

Step 4. Use the Time Shift Tool to change when each audio track starts playing.

By default, when the audio tracks are first imported, they all start playing at the same time. In most cases, you would probably want to change the audio tracks' location in the timeline. Select the Time Shift Tool, go over an audio track that you want to move, hold down left-click and move left or right depending when you would like the audio track to start playing. Look at figures 2 and 3 for help: 

Step 5. Export the result to a file.

Once you are done moving things around and making sure that everything is the way you want it, save the resulting audio track by going to File and clicking Export as MP3.

You could also try Export as WAV, but this usually results in a larger file size. 

In the Save As dialog box, name your file, browse to the location where you want the file to be save and click Save.