Audacity Forum

As can be seen from the description, I am not the most tech savvy user here. I downloaded the FFMPEG plugin for Audacity to export (and import?) ALAC and AAC files. Just because I want to be in control of what gets stored on my system, I want to know how to delete the ...

I think you may mean "AAC" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Audio_Coding) It is listed as: M4A (AAC) Files (FFmpeg) As in previous versions of Audacity, FFmpeg needs to be installed for AAC export: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/faq_installation_and_plug_ins.html#ffdown ...

... WAV is usually foolproof and it never hurts to create a WAV as a backup/safety net. Did you install the LAME MP3 encoder? (It shouldn't be using FFMPEG.) after recording the tape and click on save in original format... I'm not actually familiar with that option but the original format was analog ...

... Error: Couldn't find symbol 'MainPanelFunc' in a dynamic library (error 127: the specified procedure could not be found.) 09:32:41: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries... 09:32:41: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries from system paths. File name is 'avformat-52.dll'. 09:32:41: Looking up PATH environment ...

I think you may mean "AAC" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Audio_Coding)
It is listed as:
M4A (AAC) Files (FFmpeg)

As in previous versions of Audacity, FFmpeg needs to be installed for AAC export: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/fa ... tml#ffdown

As can be seen from the description, I am not the most tech savvy user here. I downloaded the FFMPEG plugin for Audacity to export (and import?) ALAC and AAC files. Just because I want to be in control of what gets stored on my system, I want to know how to delete the ...

... to support the proprietary formats mp4 and mp3, Audacity requires a couple of plugins (as Gale previously wrote). To import the mp4 you will need FFmpeg (supports many formats), and to export an MP3 requires Lame. Instructions for installing: FFmpeg: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/faq_installation_and_plug_ins.html#ffdown ...

You can use Audacity with the FFmpeg add-on software and that should open up the sound part of a video.

http://audacityteam.org/download/windows

1) Get the large video file to my Windows desktop to process it with Audacity.

That is a question, isn't it?

Koz

... because of both factors... It's compressed and it contains video. Audacity can open the audio part of an audio/video file, and with the optional FFMPEG import/export library it can de-compress most compressed audio file formats.

... to export as multi-channel AAC, then you must choose "(external program)" and type out the command that tells Audacity to use the native FFmpeg encoder. As it says in the link I gave , you can use a command like either of these two: ffmpeg -i - -strict experimental -c:a aac -b:a 240k ...