Audacity Forum

... in Wave files depend only on which ACM Codecs are installed on the computer. http://www.unger-markus.de/dvd/VirtualDub_Audio_compression.jpg (BTW: FFmpeg uses its own "built-in" decoders, of course, but it should support pretty much any relevant format from Wave container too)

... 2.1.0 as well as 2.0.6 on your machine, as long as you don't run them both at the same time. It is possible the file would import if you installed FFmpeg , then used File > Import > Audio... and chose the "FFmpeg-compatible files" file type to make FFmpeg import the file instead of QuickTime. ...

Pages and pages of screaming about not being able to find FFMpeg is normal. The way I understand it, Audacity goes for the QuickTime libraries to open up odd formats. This is what makes not being able to open iTunes files odd. iTunes opens them up with ...

Pages and pages of screaming about not being able to find FFMpeg is normal. The way I understand it, Audacity goes for the QuickTime libraries to open up odd formats. This is what makes not being able to open iTunes files odd. iTunes opens them up with ...

Audacity fails to load a dynamic library from OSX. I've seen this error before. Has to do with messed up path, IIRC.

Any chance you have VLC player installed for video?

That could have messed with a wrong ffmpeg, maybe.

... sample audio since I cannot import it to the screen, but here is some of the activity log. Hope this gives you some idea. 21:35:41: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries... 21:35:41: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries from default path, '/Library/Application Support/audacity/libs/libavformat.55.dylib'. ...

... formats. I think there's only two lossless compressed formats. All the rest sacrifice some quality to get smaller files. You can install the FFMpeg software add-on and open up many different sound formats. Once inside Audacity, you can export to any supported format. Koz

... sure its audaacity. But it happened around the same time, and i believe it happened around the same time with my last computer. I was wondering if ffmpeg or one of the other messed up a setting, or it got de-selected somehow messing with audacity, since i was having trouble recording when i did ...

... You can do that even if the song you want is a YouTube video. Download the video (use your favourite search engine to find out how) then install FFmpeg: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/faq_installation_and_plug_ins.html#ffdown . Having installed FFmpeg you can drag the video into Audacity ...

You have to install something called FFmpeg into audacity to play [import] and save [export] "wma" format files in Audacity, see ... http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/fa ... ml#foreign.