Audacity Forum

For spoken word the MP3 file format will be more than adequate. Your grandson could import them into iTunes to play them. Audacity has no provision to provide "chapter markers" within an audio file (similar to chapters on a DVD). The easy solution is to provide a separate MP3 file for each chapter (...

In 2.4.2 we tightened up error reporting when importing MP3 files. This is what you're seeing. LAME and ffMPEG have nothing to do with importing - they are for exporting audio files from Audacity. You could try installing the VLC Media Player. You could then load the files into VLC and save them as ...

By "default location for Audacity" I meant "/Library/Application Support/audacity/libs/"

Yes, you can have many installations of ffMPEG. I still suggest you download and run the recommended PKG installer.

-- Bill

You can either point Audacity to the location where you installed ffMPEG, or you can use the installer linked-to from here, which will put the correct version of ffMPEG into the default location for Audacity.
-- Bill

1brajesh wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 05, 2020 10:50 pm

I already have ffmpeg 4.3.1 installed via home-brew.

Where did you install it?

-- Bill

Audacity 2.4.2 is a 64-bit application and requires 64-bit plug-ins. None of the MDA plug-ins show up for me in Audacity 2.4.2.

-- Bill

"USB PnP Audio Device" is the telltale sign. Both of you probably have the same device under a different name - a small portable cassette deck with a USB port. Mac users have been complaining for years about exactly the symptoms you see - the device shows up then disappears and Audacity reports bein...

In the Device Toolbar, change the recording channels to 2 (Stereo)
OR
Instead of creating a new stereo track, create a new mono track.

-- Bill

Audacity supports a limited set of metadata which does not include art work.

If you're looking for an open-source metadata editor, try kid3.

-- Bill

You may be getting no input from the internal microphone if Audacity does not have permission to access the microphone. Go to System Preferences > Security and Privacy, then the Privacy tab. In the list on left, click on "Microphone". Audacity should show up in the list on the right with a checkmark...