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kozikowski wrote:I still don't remember that step.

It's in the manual at Locating the FFmpeg library manually.

You've never seen that step because your FFmpeg libraries are in the standard location and Audacity automatically detects them

-- Bill

... just showed up and started working. Screen Shot 2017-10-06 at 4.30.41 PM.png These always made me crazy. Isn't this supposed to say "I found FFMpeg here." "Want to look for another one?" Koz

Following up on my earlier post. If you use the DMG installer, it will install the FFmpeg files in /Library/Application Support/audacity/libs which is where Audacity automatically looks for the files. You should only use the ZIP file if the DMG install fails. When ...

OK, first, yes it does. Attached m4a pink noise sound file from an almost identical machine. 5.selected 'libavcodec.55.dylib' and opened it I don't remember that step at all. My install looks like this. Screen Shot 2017-10-06 at 3.42.27 PM.png I'm not the installer whiz, but somehow I did this over ...

Why are you using the ZIP instead of the DMG?

-- Bill

the same reconfiguration message appears.

What is the message?

Koz

Good afternoon, I'm currently on a Mac OS X version 10.9.5 and using Audacity 2.1.3 I'd like to export an audio file to M4A and have: 1.downloaded 'ffmpeg-mac-2.2.2.zip' 2.extracted the files onto a recognisable file on my desktop 3.opened Preferences and Library 4.browsed and found the file 5.selected ...

Trebor wrote:

Gunther426 wrote: I am getting a skip after the first second or 2 ... Any ideas I can try on this?

You may have to install something called FFmpeg into Audacity to play some media files.

Ha, this actually fixes the root cause. Thank you!!

... on your computer, you can probably open it in Audacity, rather than record the output of a media player. You may have to install something called FFmpeg into Audacity to play some media files.

... added when I installed the Lame for Audacity package), I get the error message that tells me that Audacity can't load the file, try installing ffmpeg (already installed), or to use file -> import -> raw data for uncompressed audio. So my question is simple, is there any way to setup a chain ...