Audacity Forum

I'm only importing and playing the file inside Audacity, not exporting anything. I had assumed it got imported as an MP3, but you're right it only says "Stereo, 44100hz 16-bit PCM". However, I do know that when I imported it, it used FFMPEG because it didn't work before the FFMPEG library ...

I installed the ffmpeg libraries and pointed audacity at them so I could import an MPEG AAC (mp4a) audio stream from an mp4 video file. However, the default settings yield a very poor quality hissing/crackling mp3. I tried running ffmpeg from the command line using a much higher bitrate (256kb/s) an...