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Thanks Gale, I appreciate the detailed reply. Unfortunately, I was affected by various bugs in 1.3.8 and earlier releases that were subsequently fixed in 1.3.9 and 1.3.10, so rolling back is not an option for me. While I would love to be able to import multiple files using FFmpeg, it's not a critica...

Thanks Steve, I appreciate it. I have used the extension rename trick in the past using a bulk renaming utility, and it worked just fine. I just prefer to leave the file extension in its native form, and since I deal with hundreds of files per day, even using a bulk renaming utility it does get a bi...

Thanks for the reply, Steve. That is odd that you see the opposite results I do. On my machine, it takes approximately 20 seconds to import a 10.5 MB mp3 with the built-in importer, compared to 10 seconds using FFmpeg. I agree that the built-in importer should be the default, but it just doesn't mak...

I much prefer to import mp3 files using FFmpeg rather than Audacity's built-in mp3 importer using the "Files of type: FFmpeg-compatible files" option. This works fine when importing a single mp3 file at a time, however if you select multiple mp3's for import, only the first one correctly imports usi...