Audacity Forum

@ Gale,

Re your last, no I didn't. Will do though.

Sorry for omitting version info. Yes indeed, it was build from git source against ffmpeg 2.3.6, as before on Fedora 23. Sorry for any confusion.

Will attempt to rerun configuration and report back :0)

It seems to me that your sound problems lie almost entirely with a combination of your machine specs and SM Player. I looked up the specs for this Dell. According to their own data, this machine has NO support whatsoever for DTS, Dolby, or mult-channel audio. Likewise there are NO takeouts on the re...

Have been reading/learning about compiling from source. Having successfully installed a local build of a supported version of ffmpeg I set about grabbing Audacity source and building. It installed successfully but I still cannot import wma files - which is something that my Windows version does with...

Ah okay. Thanks :0)

So I can --enable-shared-library because it will still restrict it within usr/local? Nice.

Linux version Fedora 23; Audacity 2.1.2 built from source. Have read and followed all instructions elsewhere to successfully compile audacity from git, and have managed to understand the build config options. Like many people I have many different music formats in my library, and I need to be able t...