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... freezes. Audacity creates a .autosave file and offers to retrieve it after reboot, then claims it does not recognise it and advises to install ffmpeg, which has no effect on the problem. What am I missing? Is there anything I can do differently to retrieve the autosaved file?

... into Audacity ... Drag'n'drop audio-file into Audacity.gif To play some audio formats, (& audio in video files), you need to install FFmpeg into Audacity .

... but it's... not... here... Seriously I literally cannot find it here, so I downloaded the latest versions and reinstalled audacity, LAME, FFmpeg, and am about to put in a new version of Noisegate just in case. All of a sudden I get the attached error, which upon looking I have no clue ...

Electric_Dreamer wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 27, 2018 12:17 pm

Long ago I enabled in my Audacity a plugin which makes using recorded m4a files possible.
I don't remember the name of the plugin. Do you know the name?

FFMPEG , see ... https ://manual.audacityteam.org/man/faq_installing_the_ffmpeg_import_export_library.html

... that I don't have the right dylib file to enable the export. I've searched throughout my HD for the file in question and for the folder that has FFmpeg - no dice. I've reinstalled the software and used the zip instead of the first link - no difference. Thoughts?

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!! this has been driving me crazy!!!! I finally downloaded a working file!!! HAHHAHAHAHA
Thanks a bunch!

The file isn't an audio file. I presume that you tried to download an audio file from the Internet, and you got this file instead. The file extension ".htm" is a web page - you've downloaded the web page rather than the audio file. This can sometimes happen when you "Right click"...

This is all Mediaarea.net showed after I used the browser to upload a sound file:33987slowatmospheremusic.htm
File size : 24.6 KiB

That's it.
What on earth am I doing wrong??? I really thought I was better at computers than this. BTW...BIG THANKS for answering my post!

... sorry. Importing AAC into Audacity is something I don't do frequently. Apple Lossless (ALAC), however, is still affected by the bug. Note that the FFmpeg library is present, and that the extension is ".m4a" in both cases.

By default, Audacity uses libmad to decode MP3s. It is also possible to use FFmpeg or avconv if Audacity has been built appropriately, and a compatible version of FFmpeg / avconv is installed. To tell Audacity to use FFmpeg (or avconv) to import a file, select ...