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... extracted files include avcodec-55.dll, avformat-55.dll, and a bunch of other dlls? Yes. According to the log you posted, you were able to load FFmpeg: 23:24:57: FFmpeg libraries loaded successfully. According to the log I posted, I wasn't able to open an AAC-coded file like it should.

According to the log you posted, you were able to load FFmpeg:

Zom-B wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 19, 2019 9:38 pm

23:24:57: FFmpeg libraries loaded successfully.

whykai wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 19, 2019 11:30 pm

Why is that so ?

Purely a matter of human resources. Audacity's development team is very small, and there's a lot of competing priorities.

Hi, I wonder why Audacity does not use more recent ffmpeg versions. Presently ffmpeg is at version 4.1.3. I have been using Audacity 2.1.2 Portable for some time, it insists on using avformat-55.dll of ffmpeg-2.2.2. Just installed Audacity 2.3.2 hoping, ...

ps: Is there an Audacity release that comes bundled with ffmpeg so it works out-of-the-box? There "may" be a version in the future. The problem, as described by DVDdoug is that there may be license / patent issues with some of the codecs. If ...

... the extracted files include avcodec-55.dll, avformat-55.dll, and a bunch of other dlls? ps: Is there an Audacity release that comes bundled with ffmpeg so it works out-of-the-box? No. LAME is now included, but I believe there are "licensing issues" with FFmpeg. It's probably illegal ...

... either the normal or 'alternative zip' link, both with lead incidentally to the Lame chapter of the loaded page. Scrolling a bit down I found the ffmpeg section where I chose the 'recommended zip' option ( this ). I extracted it somewhere, pointed Audacity to it (which works as seen in the logs) ...

That Audacity version takes a different FFMpeg. That's the software you need for formats other than MP3 and WAV. Audacity has been able to open MP3 files forever and the latest version will export MP3 without any additional software. You should ...

hello team Today I bring you a fault that I have not been able to solve for more clean installations and Download FFmpeg Libraries. For more than 1 year Audacity no longer allows me to import the video files and format .m4a and .wma, Although I have located and download new libraries ...

And, there are some "difficulties" setting the bitrate with FFmpeg. (I don't remember the details at the moment, but I think there is a work-around. That is this bug whivch we are hoping to get fixed for the next release https://bugzilla.audacityteam.org/show_bug.cgi?id=344 ...