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23:34:55: Audacity 2.4.2 23:34:55: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries… 23:34:55: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries from default path, ‘/Library/Application Support/audacity/libs/ffmpeg.55.64bit.dylib’. 23:34:55: Checking for monolithic avformat from ‘/Library/Application ...

steve wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 23, 2021 9:44 am

stdedos wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 22, 2021 8:17 pm

On the side, it would be nice if the text throughout the application / dialogs is somehow selectable/copyable

On Linux it is, but apparently Windows does not support copying from a wx message (wxMessageDialog) window.

Good to know that it was build with that in mind

stdedos wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 22, 2021 8:17 pm

On the side, it would be nice if the text throughout the application / dialogs is somehow selectable/copyable

On Linux it is, but apparently Windows does not support copying from a wx message (wxMessageDialog) window.

I have extracted it successfully with e.g. https://audio-extractor.net/ (I couldn't think of a faster solution)

Can you play the file? (With Windows Media Player, etc.?) If you can play the file you can record it while it's playing. Or if VLC can play it, there's a way to extract the audio with VLC (and optionally save it in a different format) but I've never tried it. If you can't play it, maybe it is corrup...

@rsimpkin Interesting that I'm not the only one with this issue. I see you just joined today- probably because you encountered this problem as well. I'm glad my post explaining how I resolved it helped you. I've decided that whenever I use these support forums for a problem and resolve it on my own...

... group : 1 However, it gives me the "Error Import" dialog with the link to file:///.../audacity/help/manual/man/importing_audio.html FFMPEG library is detected as F(55.33.100), C(55.52.102), U(52.66.100). ---------- On the side, it would be nice if the text throughout the application ...

Glad you got it sorted.

Peter.

... Metadata: encoder : LAME3.99r Have tried: 1) Changing the default input bit rate (16,24,32) 2) Applied a extended import rule for mp3 that applied ffmpeg filter and the mp3 filter A short sample mp3 file has been attached Thanks for any help in advance.

... putting all of that back together. Really hoping someone can help me here... These are my logs: 23:13:51: Audacity 2.4.2 23:13:51: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries... 23:13:51: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries from default path, '/Library/Application Support/audacity/libs/ffmpeg.55.64bit.dylib'. ...