Audacity Forum

... other day I wanted to take a piece of audio from the MP4 file. After watching a video on YouTube I then went through the process of installing the FFmpeg dll. For some reason, this was much harder than I thought it was gong to be. Audacity just would not recognise it. And I cannot actually remember ...

... fix I quoted above, I got the bug on Audacity launch very frequently. All plugins not shipped with Audacity disappear from the menus, and LAME and FFmpeg can't be accessed. My machine was bought new (a mid 2011 Mac Mini). Partitions that have been upgraded from earlier macOS and those having a ...

I agree that it would be better to leverage arbitrary ffmpeg executables rather than be tied to specific (now oudated) versions of shared libraries (DLL files) but we don't really have the resources to make that change right now. One possibility might ...

I installed FFmpeg, long before even looking at audacity. FFmpeg is actually installed on another drive entirely. What my question is "how does one tell audacity the FFmpeg folder (version 3.2.2) is on drive F:\ffmpeg-3.2.2\bin" ...

I installed FFmpeg, long before even looking at audacity. FFmpeg is actually installed on another drive entirely. What my question is "how does one tell audacity the FFmpeg folder (version 3.2.2) is on drive F:\ffmpeg-3.2.2\bin" ...

It might be best to run the FFmpeg for Audacity installer and install another copy. It might be a special compile. To "tell" Audacity where it is, go to Edit -> Preferences -> Libraries and click Locate . It's avformat-55.dll ...

Hello I installed FFmpeg, long before even looking at audacity. FFmpeg is actually installed on another drive entirely. What my question is "how does one tell audacity the FFmpeg folder (version 3.2.2) is on drive F:\ffmpeg-3.2.2\bin" ...

... about lossless WMA and I don't have any lossless WMA files to test. Assuming that your files are 16-bit lossless, any batch converter based on FFmpeg should be able to decode the files. There's a list of applications that use FFmpeg here: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Projects

... 8.1 Audacity 2.1.2 I installed it using "audacity-win-2.1.2.exe" also I installed "Lame_v3.99.3_for_Windows.exe" and "ffmpeg-win-2.2.2.exe" (as I needed to work on m4a files) The problem I am facing is that when I use the selection toolbar to select a portion of ...

... as M4A or MP3. Both require adding extra libraries for Audacity to use. Both fomats are lossy but should be acceptable enough for speech. FFmpeg to export M4A LAME to export MP3 . Gale