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Audacity doesn't natively support Blu-Ray formats. As you can see at https://www.ffmpeg.org/general.html FFmpeg only offers limited Blu-Ray support. If you try to decode the files to WAV with FFmpeg standalone (at the command-line) and you receive the same issues, ...

... as expected, and after a few seconds hangs/freezes/crashes. What file format? Try a different file, maybe a WAV or MP3. If you've installed the FFMPEG import/export library you may need to re-download and re-install it. (I had to do that recently after upgrading Audacity.) First thing I notice ...

... for importing, notably libsndfile (http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/) for most of the natively supported audio formats, and the optional FFmpeg library for many other formats including video formats (though Audacity only extracts the audio streams from video files). Audacity has two ways ...

... for importing, notably libsndfile (http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/) for most of the natively supported audio formats, and the optional FFmpeg library for many other formats including video formats (though Audacity only extracts the audio streams from video files). Audacity has two ways ...

... Audacity from Help > About Audacity... . Only download Audacity from us: http://audacityteam.org/download/windows . on windows 7 and installed the ffmpeg and lame files by exe, and also reset the preferences when I installed the newest version. Every time I try to import the mp3 it just says, 'audacity ...

I have downloaded the newest version of audacity on windows 7 and installed the ffmpeg and lame files by exe, and also reset the preferences when I installed the newest version. Every time I try to import the mp3 it just says, 'audacity did not recognize the type ...

... the project but don't play it, the errors such as "22:27:19: Warning: Expected to read 137312 samples, got 0 samples" are not there? The FFmpeg library is not relevant to reopening a saved project. As previously asked, is the project a recording or does it contain imported files? If it's ...

The project has just one track.

I also installed the FFmpeg Import/Export Library but the silent parts are still there. Maybe the log will provide some useful information. The FFmpeg libraries seem to load successfully, though.

... to DSF using the tool I mentioned should (as I understand) be lossless. But if you used that tool then imported the DSF into Audacity (pointed to FFmpeg 2.3), you would get the slight loss at that point. As a reference point, that Foobar2000 DFF component does not seem to play DSF files. Gale

DSF/DFF are file types for the Direct Stream Digital SA_CD format. If you obtain a shared library of FFmpeg 2.3.x and point Audacity to it you may be able to import DSF. See http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?p=261832#p261832 . FFmpeg supports the standalone DTS ...