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... by Audacity do not have the Album Artist or Album Year fields set even though they were entered into Audacity AAC (.M4A) encoding is done by FFmpeg rather than by Audacity. This seems to be a problem / limitation with FFmpeg exports and is logged on the Audacity bug tracker. Interestingly, ...

FYI I have confirmed that the problem with losing the Album Artist and Album Year metadata when creating M4A (AAC) files was not fixed in version 2.2.3. This may be a bug in the FFmpeg library rather than Audacity itself.

... metadata, it seems to me this is truly a bug, and a bug that was not corrected in the recent 2.2.3 update). It seems to me the bug may be in the FFMpeg add-on rather than Audacity itself.

The part about FFmpeg is a red herring. That only happens because the final check when trying to open a file and failing, says: "If all else fails, suggest FFmpeg". What would normally happen is that on pressing the "Recover ...

... did not recognize the type of file C:\Users\my user name\AppData\Roaming\Audacity\AutoSave\54 - 2018-12-04 19-49-16 N-53.autosave. Try installing FFmpeg. For uncompressed files, also try File>import>raw data." (FFmpeg already installed on my computer) I select "ok" and the message ...

Trebor wrote: ↑

Thu Dec 06, 2018 11:38 am

[ I don't think you have to install ffMPEG to get those WAV encoding options ]

I can confirm, you don't. 24-bit WAV is natively supported by Audacity in the way described in your post.

... files ", then you get a menu with the 24-bit WAV option ... If you want to save as 24 bit WAV.gif [ I don't think you have to install ffMPEG to get those WAV encoding options :?: ]

... I select "Recover projects" Message appears, "Audacity did not recognize the type of file (see above path). Try installing FFmpeg. For uncompressed files, also try File>import>raw data." (FFmpeg already installed on my computer) I select "ok" and the message ...

LEDDO wrote: ↑

Thu Dec 06, 2018 1:18 am

It is when I select recover, I get a message that tells me Audacity does not recognise the .autosave file that it created, and I need to add ffmpeg to help recognise it, which it doesn't.

Take me through it, step by step, exactly what are you doing?

... time. It is when I select recover, I get a message that tells me Audacity does not recognise the .autosave file that it created, and I need to add ffmpeg to help recognise it, which it doesn't. In other words, Audacity created the .autosave file and both Audacity and I know exactly where it is, ...