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Add a short section on normalization to 'Exporting sessions'

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## Export it!
To export a session, use the top menu: `Session > Export > Export to Audio File(s)...`. This will open up a dialogue box with a number of options.
To export a session, use the top menu: `Session > Export > Export to Audio File(s)...`. This will open up a dialog box with a number of options.
![export session dialog](en/ardour7-exporting-settings.png)
![Export Session dialog](en/ardour7-exporting-settings.png)
**Preset**
: This is *NOT* where you write the file name. Don't worry about this field now.
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**Mute** or **Solo** buttons engaged, this will also affect which tracks will be heard in the exported file.
{{% /notice %}}
## Advanced Options
## Normalization
Click on the tabs _Time span_ and _Channels_ in case you need to access advanced exporting options.
Sometimes the rendered audio is either too loud or too quiet to match demands imposed by various popular streaming services like YouTube or Spotify. Ardour
provides a tool called _Loudness Assistant_ to help with that.
In layman terms, it analyzes everything that goes through the _Master_ bus,
estimates how loud the signal is, and then suggests correcting it upwards or
downwards so that overall loudness would be just about right for this or that
popular streaming service.
While you can apply loudness (gain) correction directly to the _Master_ bus's
output and benefit from having more manual control over the result, the most
convenient way is to apply normalization at the exporting stage. You can do
that two ways:
1. Just pick a popular service in the drop-down list under _Formats_. Ardour has presets for Apple Music, Deezer, Spotify, YouTube etc.
2. If the service is not listed in the presets, click the **Edit** button to
open a dialog with advanced exporting settings, enable _Normalize_, choose
_Loudness_ rather than _Peak_, and then set the desired LUFS value.
{{< figure src="en/ardour7-edit-exporting-format.png" alt="Edit the exporting format" >}}
## Continuing