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Hi Gale! To force FFmpeg to import the file rather than LIBMAD, you have to click File > Import > Audio and select "FFmpeg-compatible files" in the "Files of type" dropdown. After that you can drag the files in if you prefer and the FFmpeg library will be used to import them. Thanks for the tip! Hmm...

Have the problem files come from one particular application? IIRC, I used Media Player to convert some CD tracks to MP3 and used Mp3tag to add the tags. The odd thing is that all files have ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags, with basically the same contents, but just a few have problems - and the problems appea...

It seems that Audacity reads the ID3v2 tags as part of the audio data. There's a characteristic audio glitch at the beginning of the problematic MP3s when they are played in Audacity. Every time I remove the ID3v2 tags the file is imported correctly... when I add an ID3v2 tags back to the file, the ...

To help to identify the problem more accurately, I tried a couple of things with Mp3tag (v2.42b). I tested 3 files with the problem, and when I removed just the "extended tags" from those MP3s, Audacity imported them just fine! So, the problem doesn't seem to be with the ID3 tags, but only the "exte...

I guess I just found out where the bug lies...

I removed the ID3 tags and the MP3 file was correctly imported!

I still have the original file if someone from Audacity team wants to check it out, just let me know and I'll send you one.

Hi Koz! Thanks for replying. <<<I also searched the forum but couldn't find anyone reporting a similar problem...>>> Which is why this probably isn't a bug. Not all bugs are popular, and for every bug there's always a first report. Also, I'm the kind of user that finds bugs in the least expected pla...

Hello, world! First of all, I want to thank all the Audacity team and everyone that helps to make Audacity such a great open source software! And now, to my bug report. From time to time I found a MP3 file that Audacity can't import correctly: a stereo file is imported as mono and/or the sample rate...