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Thank you Steve, I solved it, I had to install "Lame and FFmpeg for Windows" to Audacity and it can read the files now

... packages. I have run the configure script as you state with the same result: sh ../configure --with-lib-preference="local system" --with-ffmpeg="system" --disable-dynamic-loading with similar poor results. It seems like my installation is messed up, but I cannot figure out how ...

... of PortAudio and PortMidi. The configure command that I generally use is: ../configure --with-lib-preference="local system" --with-ffmpeg="system" --disable-dynamic-loading See also the updated information in the Audacity INSTALL file: https://github.com/audacity/audacity/blob/master/INSTALL

... If libsndfile says it does not recognise / support the file type, then it tries QuickTime (if available) and FFmpeg (if available) - I don't know off hand which order it tries them. In this case, the format is supported by libsndfile, so that's as far as it ...

... imports as a Note track, then you can export it as a MID file. If the MUS file imports as an audio track, then either that website is wrong, or FFmpeg is reading it as a MOD (tracker) file. Tracker files are similar to MIDI files but usually they contain audio samples that are then used to render ...

... dpkg -s audacity Version: 2.2.0-1build1~ubuntu16.04 Depends: audacity-data (= 2.2.0-1build1~ubuntu16.04), libasound2 (>= 1.0.16), libavcodec-ffmpeg56 (>= 7:2.4) | libavcodec-ffmpeg-extra56 (>= 7:2.4), libavformat-ffmpeg56 (>= 7:2.4), libavutil-ffmpeg54 (>= 7:2.4), libc6 (>= 2.15), libexpat1 ...

You will need to install FFmpeg: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/installing_and_updating_audacity_on_windows.html#winff Matroska (MKV) is a container format, so it is not guaranteed that FFmpeg will be able to decode the contents, ...

... This is what happens when you try to play a sound file in Audacity encoded with an advanced technology (M4A, AAC) and don't install the FFMpeg software that knows what those formats are. Audacity by itself has no idea and plays them as if they were uncompressed, plain sound files. They're ...

... to make one. Little known production facts. http://www.audacityteam.org/download/windows/ Scroll down. You might install the FFMpeg software, too. That's needed to make and read MP4, AAC and other advanced sound formats. You should take test3 and see if you can shepherd it ...

It works, thanks for your help!