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Did you determine that the Audacity FFMpeg was damaged or defective, or are you just assuming it can't be any good? You can use your own FFMpeg through the File > Export system. File > Export > Export Audio > (external program) Select the program ...

... to be a generic reply rather than any actual answering of my questions. Are you saying that it's impossible to entirely use an external version of FFmpeg for all purposes in Audacity, due to the APIs? If this is the case, then can it at least be made so I can specify which version of Ffmpeg I want ...

... despite the seemingly small number of changes I made to the data, exporting the finished product using the external command option and the command ffmpeg -i - -c:a copy "%f" (i.e. passing through the audio codec), the resulting audio file is a massive 3.3GB. More importantly, I can't ...

It's actually a bit more complicated than this, but to give a general idea of the problem: Audacity uses the FFmpeg library via its API, rather than the standalone version of FFmpeg via the command-line. If you wish to use the command-line version for exporting files, you can ...

... is a bug or whether the feature just doesn't exist, but Audacity doesn't allow me the option of using my own local, up-to-date installation of FFmpeg (which is in my PATH) unless I rename or delete the "FFmpeg for Audacity" folder from Program Files (I'm using Windows 7 , and Audacity ...

... to be having. I dig out the links and paste them here if I can. I am compiling and running the 32 bit version because of some issues with 64 bit ffmpeg compatibility but this may have been fixed now. Apart from the executable you just need the dll files but you may need to install VC runtime ...

23:29:53: Audacity 2.3.0 23:29:53: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries... 23:29:53: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries from system paths. File name is 'avformat-55.dll'. 23:29:53: Looking up PATH environment variable... 23:29:53: PATH = 'C:\Program Files ...

... and I know it didn't have this warning before as I would have gotten on it then like I am now. I did notice in every log that the files loaded in ffmpeg failed to load initially. I uninstalled ffmpeg, re downloded it then reinstalled it...to no avail. Then to add insult to injury I decided to ...

... and this page that it links to: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/wma_export_options.html Note that you have to have the optional FFmpeg library installed in order to do this - see: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/installing_and_updating_audacity_on_windows.html#winff For Import, ...

... direct from Microsoft here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-ie/download/details.aspx?id=48145 To import audio from VOB files, you need to install FFmpeg for Audacity, in addition to a working installation of Audacity. Do the Windows update first, and ensure that Audacity 2.3.0 runs correctly. ...