Audacity Forum

... the problem into Apple's court. There are several different codecs for encoding M4A/AAC. Audacity uses an open source codec that is built into FFmpeg. Apple have their own codec for AAC. My guess is that they have made their latest version of iTunes compatible with AAC files encoded with their ...

... the problem into Apple's court. There are several different codecs for encoding M4A/AAC. Audacity uses an open source codec that is built into FFmpeg. Apple have their own codec for AAC. My guess is that they have made their latest version of iTunes compatible with AAC files encoded with their ...

This is probably and FFmpeg (or iTunes) issue so there may be nothing the Audacity developers can do...

Audacity will recognize many audio format on its own (WAV, AIFF, MP3, etc). It will deal with a lot more if you install the FFMpeg software. Note it's different software if you have Audacity 2.3.0 and before than if you have Audacity 2.3.1 and later. Scroll down to FFMpeg. https://www.audacityteam.org/download/mac/

... When trying to open or import a m4a file, I get the "not compiled with QT support" error. No error on Audacity launch. MacOSX 14.4.4 FFMpeg version in Preferences/linrariues : F(55.33.100),C(55.52.102),U(55.66.100) Selected fame file : /Library/Application Support/audacity/libs/ffmpeg.55.64bit.dylib ...

Hi I have the most updated version of the Audacity app and have downloaded both the LAME and FFmpeg plug ins and they're both available in my Libraries. When I go to download the ACX check plug in, it first says "There is no application set to open the document “Acx-check(7).ny” ...

The instructions are for FFmpeg are here . After you run ffmpeg-win-2.2.2.exe , FFmpeg should be installed to the correct location and Audacity should find it automatically. LAME is only for making (exporting to) MP3s. You don't need ...

Hello! I am trying to import an audio file that I recorded using the voice recorder on my pc (Windows 10) into Audacity to edit a podcast. I'm using Audacity 2.3.1. Since the file is .m4a, I wasn't able to import that and through googling found that I needed to install Lame as well. I followed the s...

First, Audacity 2.1.0 is very old. The latest version is 2.3.1. We recommend upgrading. Second, you have downloaded the LAME file, not the FFmpeg file. Third, you have downloaded the 64-bit LAME library. The 64-bit FFmpeg and LAME libraries are for use only with Audacity 2.3.1 and later. Fourth, ...

Hi. I'm using Mac OS High Sierra 10.13.6 and Audacity 2.1.0 I've tried to download ffmpeg libraries in various ways, following all available instructions on the Audacity pages, but my Audacity still doesn't find them. I've even tried the "Alternative zip download ...