Audacity Forum

... - compress all wav files with WavPack--generally the only one that accepts 32 bit float files. The files can be reimported into Audacity (with FFmpeg presumably) Theoretically, the files could directly exported in the WavePack format but the available export options seem to be buggy. I've tried ...

Audacity doesn't do video (it's an audio application), though if you have FFmpeg installed you can import the audio stream from many video formats into Audacity. Up till now, Ive created podcasts by recording in Audacity directly. So I now want to record into ...

Audacity doesn't do video (it's an audio application), though if you have FFmpeg installed you can import the audio stream from many video formats into Audacity. Im doing podcasts with audio files created in Audacity. I would like to mix several video clips of ...

... the audacity software.But when I play mp3 files,it is being played very fast.Some mp3 files,it is playing for it says some msg like(converting to ffmpeg compatible file").Can you help me to correct the issue.May I know whether I miss any plugin tfor audacity thanks in advance sunil

... failures to start various things and there was an error code 136 which I think is a fault in my registry. If you have not installed the LAME or FFmpeg libraries, this will be noted as failures to load in the log. Those messages are not relevant to Timer Record. Gale

... is all you have open to you. ps would it help to post the Audacity crash log here? it repeatedly mentions that it is trying and failing to load FFMpeg libraries (I'm not sure what that has to do with ACX Check, I thought FFMpeg was for something else entirely). ? FFmpeg is for importing / exporting ...

... they will fail, right? ps would it help to post the Audacity crash log here? it repeatedly mentions that it is trying and failing to load FFMpeg libraries (I'm not sure what that has to do with ACX Check, I thought FFMpeg was for something else entirely). ?

Hi Gale, thanks for the detailed answer. Using ffmpeg after downloading the source works - no immediate recording required anymore! I have a feeling that the audio quality is even better than recording from what flash payer delivers... And still ...

... what you are recording. Or download the video if it's a popular site like YouTube. Use your favourite search engine to find out how. Then install FFmpeg and drag the video into Audacity. At that point you will have a copy of the video's audio as good or bad as it is in the video. is it possible ...

For command line audio work, I'd highly recommend SoX http://sox.sourceforge.net/

Another option for the job you describe is FFmpeg: https://ffmpeg.org/about.html