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... downloaded the audio/video file you can open-import the audio with Audacity. Depending on the format you'll probably need the optional Audacity FFmpeg library to open it.

Thank you for the further suggestions :) . There are no plug-ins/add-ons apart from the Lame & ffmpeg libraries, so I shall ditch the settings folder in case (e.g.) there are some weird leftovers from a previous version. The drive verified fine but I also ran a permissions ...

... to wx3.0.x/wx-config> You might want to add after ./configure the option --disable-dynamic-loading. This makes it easier to build against FFmpeg, unless you want to add --without-ffmpeg to configure to build without FFmpeg support. Personally I always download wxWidgets 3.0.2 from https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/releases/download/v3.0.2/wxWidgets-3.0.2.tar.bz2 ...

What is the problem with choosing "Custom FFmpeg Export" and typing in the constant bit rate you require? Because unlike mp3 which I always have at 320bkps, with m4a I like it in itunes quality (around 256 +-) and writing the exact bitrate ...

What is the problem with choosing "Custom FFmpeg Export" and typing in the constant bit rate you require? Because unlike mp3 which I always have at 320bkps, with m4a I like it in itunes quality (around 256 +-) and writing the exact bitrate ...

What is the problem with choosing "Custom FFmpeg Export" and typing in the constant bit rate you require? I use Audacity to increase volume, cut length, edit and cut parts to make the song shorter, check volumes to compare stuff and tbh ...

... to the automatic settings I used to have? Also does Audacity reduces quality? :( ugh I've been using it for years. "If you want to compile FFmpeg 2.2.2 yourself without libvo_aac, then that would use FFmpeg's built-in AAC encoder instead and the slider would work, but then if you wanted ...

Thanks for letting me know the version of Audacity I used doesn't support FFmpeg 2.2.2. Audacity 2.0.6 and later (including 2.1.2) do support FFmpeg 2.2.2, but that version of FFmpeg 2.2.2 is built with a specific AAC encoder called "libvo_aac" that ...

Thanks for letting me know the version of Audacity I used doesn't support FFmpeg 2.2.2. I tried the custom FFFmpeg export but then I set myself a specific rate of kbps and I like when it does that automatic depending on each song. I also exported to WAV but I ...

Hello, the M4A quality slider doesn't work with the version of FFmpeg (2.2.2) that we recommend, as noted in the 2.1.2 Release Notes: ( http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Release_Notes_2.1.2#Imports_and_Exports_.28FFmpeg.29 ). You can use the workaround ...