Audacity Forum

Not done yet. (Rolling up sleeves) I just did a fresh install of Audacity 2.3.2 on my High Sierra 10.13.6 and installed the recommended FFMpeg. Now the video opens correctly in both 2.3.0 and 2.3.2. I would have put money on the new install crippling the older Audacity, but no. Both live. I am openi...

Just to do it, I opened 2.3.0 on two different machines and the video opens and plays perfectly.



With honey crystals and brown rice......

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Koz

It "opens" in audacity...but it create the screeching garbled audio To back up a bit. I mean the little .m4a that I posted. We know yours have problems. Mine should be a short, mellow, 400Hz broadcast test tone. Is it? Not sure if hiding filename/extensions affects how audacity sees the f...

I have desktop machines with theatrical surround sound and those are a good deal wackier. Consult your instructions.

Koz

If you do have a desktop, your soundcard is actually a card and should look lot like that. http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/soundCardFinal2.jpg From the top: Stereo Out (Headphone Out), Stereo In (the one you want) and Microphone In with 5 volt computer phantom power. Your adapter cable should...

Computers haven't had good stereo connections in years. Even Macs gave up. I use a Behringer UCA-202 stereo adapter. It's designed to connect older analog equipment to your computer. http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/peaveyUCA202Lenovo-650.jpg That also gives you a convenient place to plug in y...

you should be able to navigate to the microphone and disable it. Unless another application really, really wants to use it such as Skype, who likes to take over control of your sound services without telling you. Worse if you leave Skype or other chat or conference program running in the background...

How is that easier than just opening up the file in Audacity and lopping off the trash at each end? If you install the FFMpeg software, Audacity will open up many different audio and video files.

MP4 to MP3

Picking up compression distortion at each step. Any thought to minimizing that?

Koz

It's not Audacity's problem. Computers naturally want to play sound files, movies or internet shows to the speakers [pause] and record the internal microphone or other USB sound device. There is no recording the internet or playback of a file. That requires a connection between Playback and Record s...

Does that open in your Audacity? If not, you have the wrong FFMpeg.

Koz