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... there was no 'audacity' directory in the Library.... directory. I actually had to create the audacity directory by hand so I could install the ffmpeg plugin. If Audacity could not launch and you had not used Audacity before, then audacity.cfg might not get created. But as rockford.j.fender ...

... there was no 'audacity' directory in the Library.... directory I actually had to create the audacity directory by hand so I could install the ffmpeg plugin. I'd be surprised if Audacity started from a .sh file ? So something may well be left over from your last (old) install...

... in for a world of disappointment... :mrgreen: If quality isn't the main concern, you could look at the speex codec: http://speex.org/ It's in ffmpeg, and while it is for speech, I have used it for low quality music, like for VOIP answering machines. It's fast and compresses well.

Sound clip is a Youtube video. You can download the video using a web browser. Use your favourite search engine to find out how. Then install FFmpeg from http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/faq_installation_and_plug_ins.html#macff and drag the video into Audacity. This will extract a copy of ...

... is still correct for the upcoming 2.1.2 release. For exporting via (external program) you can point Audacity to any static build of FFmpeg from Zeranoe , even if very recent. Audacity is still at libsndfile 1.0.24 at the moment. I will mention the possibility on our developers list ...

... situation was regarding ALAC? i read this: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tutorial_exporting_to_itunes.html#alac and so it would seem that ffmpeg is still needed to create ALAC's in m4a, is that correct? (albeit using a much newer ver of ffmpeg, but whats the newest that can be used?) however, ...

Have you installed FFmpeg? Yes (I had it installed before I started to deal with this). So MediaInfo does not get as far as to know what codec the file is using. Actually, it does. That's why I included the info displayed by MediaInfo ...

... > Audio... . When I try to import that way, I just receive an error message: Audacity did not recognize the type of the file . Have you installed FFmpeg from http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/faq_installation_and_plug_ins.html#ffdown ? Audacity would need FFmpeg to even attempt the file. Do ...

The Git version still fails with the same ffmpeg conflicts when built normally, but succeeded with --disable-dynamic-loading. Excellent, that was quick - you must have a faster machine than me ;) I'm not sure why, but Audacity is a lot less fussy ...

Trashed the SVN copy and cloned the GitHub version.

The Git version still fails with the same ffmpeg conflicts when built normally, but succeeded with --disable-dynamic-loading. I guess the issue is solved?