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You have to install something called FFmpeg into Audacity before it can play some audio formats, & rip the audio from some types of video files, see ...
https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/ins ... html#macff

I'd kill my SSD within a year because audacity create 30-40gb file from my 500mb audio file which is craaaazy Probably not. There's an interesting article starts here: https://techreport.com/review/24841/introducing-the-ssd-endurance-experiment and results after 600 TB of writes are here: https://t...

audacity is great in editing but with big audio files around +3h from my cam it works pretty slow, when I scroll audio file (from left to right) audacity freeze (for about 5-20sec) HDD loads are about 5-8mb/s working on SSD is much more smooth but you know... I'd kill my SSD within a year because a...

audacity is great in editing but with big audio files around +3h from my cam it works pretty slow, when I scroll audio file (from left to right) audacity freeze (for about 5-20sec) HDD loads are about 5-8mb/s working on SSD is much more smooth but you know... I'd kill my SSD within a year because au...

I'm much more excited about why it's broken. Straight translation between formats doesn't do that. But to specifically answer you, If you install FFMpeg plugin, Audacity will open an M4A directly. Scroll down. https://www.audacityteam.org/download/windows/ I bet it's still broken. Can you make ...

... to import a WAV file with libsndfile, which should work for a valid WAV file, but that fails, so Audacity then attempts to import the file with FFmpeg, but when FFmpeg tries, it crashes, and takes Audacity down with it. As a workaround, perhaps you could export the sample from FL Studio as a ...

... MP3 patents have expired and at some point in the future LAME will be included with the default Audacity download/installation. (But, I assume FFmpeg will not.) Windows has native MP3 encoding (since WinXP I think?), why not use that? I'm pretty sure LAME is better and the Microsoft-supplied ...

... not do video, but it can play the audio from a video file (many common video formats). To import the audio from a video file, you need to have FFmpeg installed. Instructions are here: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/installing_and_updating_audacity_on_windows.html#winff By default, Audacity ...

... did I miss something at installation time?? Sounds like you forgot to install something called FFmpeg into Audacity, that's required to play WMA files, see ... https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/faq_installation_and_plug_ins.html#How_do_I_download_and_install_the_[b]FFmpeg[/b]_Import.2FExport_Library.3F

no lespaulplayer621, I was mistaken and evidently it’s a normal log from FFMPEG. See Steve’s last post. Well, back to square one as to any answer as to a cause. In any case, so far the workaround is to just click “OK” through all the error messages. Not the ...