Audacity Forum

You should be able to open an M4A file if you install FFMpeg. Pick your Audacity version and then scroll down to the add-ons. https://www.audacityteam.org/ (we need to be mobile so we can interview kids wherever they are in the school) I think I'm missing ...

... You didn't say what your install problem was, but after you get Audacity installed I recommend in installing the optional LAME MP3 Encoder and FFmpeg Import/Export Library .

... which does not have an audio / video export feature (always recorded together) What format does the video meeting software save in? If you have FFmpeg installed for Audacity, Audacity is able to directly import audio from many video formats. See: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/installing_and_updating_audacity_on_windows.html#winff ...

... have an audio / video export feature (always recorded together). If you have an audio/video file, what's the format? If you install the optional FFmpeg import/export library , Audacity can open/extract the audio from most audio/video files. I simply want a small MP3 of each meeting and Audacity ...

... thing happens with install version, portable version and portable apps version. Here's the log: 23:32:51: Audacity 2.1.2 23:32:51: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries... 23:32:51: mLibAVFormatPath ('C:\Program Files\FFmpeg for Audacity\avformat-55.dll') is not empty. Loading from it. 23:32:51: Looking ...

... 2-person audio conversations (sessions) on Zoom and the recordings I want to edit are in m4a format. I downloaded the latest versions Lame and ffmpeg and can easily open the audio files in Audacity, but they import as Mono: there's no way to split channels, which is important as part of my ...

... the file in Windows Media Player? Do you know the approximate playing time? If you know the playing time what is the file size? You don't need FFmpeg to open an MP3, but you might need it if it's actually some other format with an "MP3" filename extension. Also, importing the raw ...

... said this: Error Importing [ X ] Audacity did not recognize the type of the file 'C:\Users\(Username)\Downloads\(file name).mp3'. Try installing FFmpeg. For uncompressed files, also try File > Import > Raw Data. [ OK ] [ ? ] Can you help me?

... Ocenaudio and VLC and Windows Media Player play all wav files correctly as well as mp3, aac, flac, etc. I have installed latest Lame mp3 and ffmpeg drivers. Same problem. I am using Audacity 2.1.2. Can anyone help me solve this problem? Thanks.

... me what, if anything, I can do to fix the issue? Thanks and very much appreciated in advance. 01:51:16: Audacity 2.2.2 01:51:16: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries... 01:51:16: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries from system paths. File name is 'avformat-55.dll'. 01:51:16: Looking up PATH environment ...