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As you can tell, I'm not very computer literate! Thank you! I selected the FFmpeg format but got the same popup that it doesn't recognize it.

I have a request in to FTR support to see if they have suggestions on how to group these into one file.

... that I need that contains the WAV files, then when I select one of them, I get the popup box about not recognizing the audio and to download the FFmpeg. These are audio files from court for my work. FTR is a software that the courthouse uses to record. I am a court reporter and report some of ...

By default, Audacity will attempt to import WAV files using its built-in PCM importer. If you have FFmpeg for Audacity installed, then you can force Audacity to use FFmpeg rather than its built in importer. To do that: "File > Import > Audio" Then in the import ...

... files into one WAV file. When I try to import the audio via Import/Audio, I get a message saying it doesn't recognize it and to either download FFmpeg or Import/Raw Data. I downloaded the FFmpeg but don't see that it's doing anything and have located it. When I import Raw Data it imports the ...

... Raw data import is only good from uncompressed audio. Most A/V files are compressed. Depending on the format you'll probably download and install ffmpeg-win-2.2.2.exe .

Fasix wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 22, 2018 8:35 am

But why vanish?

I'm pretty sure that is not intended. My guess is that FFmpeg is crashing, which is then taking down Audacity. I may be able to discover a little more when I get chance to try this on Windows.

... extension), are be imported normally. i had try to rename .ogg in .opus but no luck. i have installed from Audacity site both library, LAME and FFMPEG. But why vanish? instead to show an error message for unsupported file format for example?

... : Front: C Sampling rate : 16.0 KHz Compression mode : Lossy Writing library : libopus unknown-fixed Audacity does not natively support Opus. If FFmpeg is installed, Audacity will attempt to use FFmpeg for importing Opus files. On Linux (Xubuntu 16.04), FFmpeg handles the file with no problem ...

Download and install the LAME MP3 Encoder.

(FFmpeg is for all the "other" formats.)

I am new to audacity as of last night and am trying to export a prerecorded file to itunes. I have already downloaded the FFmpeg. It says Audacity need the file lame_ec.dll but it is listed next to Browse. When I push OK it says it cannot open MP3 encoding library. I don't know what ...