Audacity Forum

I know this is an old thread, but came across when I was facing this issue myself. I found another application that uses its own FFmpeg plugin was conflicting. It put in an entry in the Environment Variables (Computer > System Properties > Environment Variables) The application is called ...

The file is corrupted - "Moov atom not found" according to FFmpeg. This "moov atom" should be at the end of a .3gP file. I don't see why the file should work on Android either, unless the file got corrupted in the transfer to PC. Have you ...

The file is corrupted - "Moov atom not found" according to FFmpeg. This "moov atom" should be at the end of a .3gP file. I don't see why the file should work on Android either, unless the file got corrupted in the transfer to PC. Have you ...

... 09:44:50: Audacity 2.1.2 09:44:50: Warning: Critical Nyquist files could not be found. Nyquist effects will not work. 09:44:51: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries... 09:44:51: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries from default path, '/Library/Application Support/audacity/libs/libavformat.55.dylib'. ...

... supports a limited number of audio formats (including WAV, AIFF, MP3 (import only), OGG and FLAC). * Audacity is able to use suitable versions of FFMpeg to read many other file formats, including reading the audio data from many video file formats. (See here for how to install FFMpeg: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/faq_installation_and_plug_ins.html#ffdown) ...

... Why would you record a file? Is it crippled with Digital Rights Management (DRM) restrictions so that Audacity cannot import it? If you install FFmpeg then you can import unprotected WMA files directly into Audacity. If you must record the WMA file, in what application exactly is that file playing, ...

... but we're waiting to see if that is enough to override that folders are external to the app and that Audacity can use external LAME and FFmpeg libraries (which we can't bundle for licensing reasons). Gale

... the drive (it was fine), fixed permissions (long overdue), deleted the audacity settings folder in the library, and updated to Sierra (Lame & ffmpeg working fine, phew). I look forward to 2.1.3. If I have any more insights into what happened (or the problem recurs), I will share. Cheers. 8-)

... (see http://www.audacityteam.org/download/mac/#sysreq ) - though at the moment there are problems on some machines that plugins and/or LAME and FFmpeg are blocked by Gatekeeper. Gale

... for extreme sluggishness after about the 5th edit (which is why I would prefer not to edit on this system). It's not quite identical since the ffmpeg library is not installed and I'm loading the source off a network drive rather than the local HD (and yet, no lost files...). Hm. Here's another ...