Audacity Forum

You can let Audacity play a lot of different sound files by adding the FFMpeg software. Scroll down. http://www.audacityteam.org/download/windows/ You can force Windows 7 to tell you what the file types are by setting it to un-hide file extensions. https://www.howtohaven.com/system/show-file-extensions-in-windows-explorer.shtml

Does this group have any suggestions of filters I can use for this purpose? If you install FFmpeg libraries into Audacity , you can use AMR (narrowband) codecs , as heard on mobile phones ... AMR (mobile-phone) codecs available in Audacity if FFmpeg is installed.png ...

... import my mp3 file using the raw data option. That means it almost certainly wasn't an MP3 file. Audacity understands those just fine. Install the FFMpeg software and Audacity will recognize many more different sound files. http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/installing_and_updating_audacity_on_windows.html#winff

Instructions for installing FFmpeg are in the manual: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/faq_installation_and_plug_ins.html#ffdown Installing FFmpeg according to the instructions will allow you to import "normal" M4A files, but ...

... wanted to import it into Audacity, however it recorded as an M4a file. When I attempted to open it I got a message: You can install the optional FFmpeg library to import a much larger range of audio formats including AC3, AMR(NB), M4A, MP4 and WMA That FFmpeg link doesnt go anywhere. Will this ...

m1maj wrote: I have switched to using the raw command line version of ffmpeg to transcode my MPEG-TS files.

What is the command that you are using?
Do you have an example file that we could try so that we can take a look at what may be going wrong?

If Audacity 2.1.3 is installed, and FFmpeg is installed in accordance with the instructions in the manual (http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/faq_installation_and_plug_ins.html#ffdown), then Audacity should find FFmpeg automatically. Manually ...

I know ffmpeg is on my computer, how do I load it into Audacity? Edit -> Preferences > Libraries -> Locate But, you may need the "Audacity version" of FFmpeg. Running the EXE installer has always worked for me, installing ...

I know ffmpeg is on my computer, how do I load it into Audacity?

... from http://lame.buanzo.org/#lamewindl ? Fmpeg can open almost anything, but It's kind-of hard to know if you've got a problem with your FFmpeg installation, or if there's something odd about the file. FYI - LAME isn't for importing. It's only for exporting to MP3.