Audacity Forum

OSX 10.11.2 Audacity 2.1.1 from audacity-mascosx-ub-2.1.1.dmg LAME 3.98.2, FFmpeg F(55.33.100),C(55.52.102),U(52,66,100) Since upgrading to El Capitan, I am unable to edit any type of audio file. For example, I can't edit an existing project (.aup) or an MP3. ...

Sorry this problem started in 2.0.6 and is either related to the FFmpeg 2.2.2 version that 2.0.6 upgraded to, or to changes we made to allow use of that later FFmpeg version. As a workaround you can unlock the "handle" Audacity has open on the ...

... source mpeg file. Once exporting was finished I would close the file in Audacity but leave Audacity running. Having updated to 2.1.1 and updated FFmpeg I found that I couldn't delete the source mpegs in my usual way. In fact, I have to close Audacity completely to be able to delete the source ...

... still won't work. Here's the log: Try installing the current Audacity 2.1.1 from http://audacityteam.org/download/windows . 2.0.5 looks first for FFmpeg in the System PATH. If there is an FFmpeg there that is a version Audacity can't work with, that prevents Audacity finding a valid FFmpeg that ...

... times. I'm clearly directing it to the right .dll file but it still won't work. Here's the log: 5:09:34: Audacity 2.0.5 5:09:34 AM: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries... 5:09:34 AM: mLibAVFormatPath ('C:\Program Files (x86)\Audacity\ffmpeg-win-2.2.2\avformat-55.dll') is not empty. Loading from it. ...

... If it is YouTube or some other popular video site, you can download the video instead by installing a web browser extension. If you then install FFmpeg and drag the video into Audacity, FFmpeg will extract a copy of the video's audio in the exact same quality it has in the video. Gale

There are a few variations of G.711 so you may need to experiment a bit to get the right result.
A-Law and u-Law are available as "other uncompressed files" (which do not require FFmpeg). See: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/fi ... ialog.html

when I click on options I get a message properly configured FFMpeg is required to proceed

In the bottom-left corner of the Audacity window, change Project Rate to 8000Hz. File -> Export Audio Save as type: Custom FFmpeg Export Options -> Click: Show All Formats and select wav. Click: Show All Codecs and select pcm_alaw or pcm_mulaw, and click OK. (There is a box for entering ...

I didn't mean to let these responses go without thanking you for them! The problem I had with this in October was one of many I was dealing with simultaneously - all because I switched from the very easily customizable Android to the desperately un-customizable iPhone. Among other things, the iPhone...