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Audacity needs FFMPEG to work.

Audacity works just fine without it. What Audacity will not do is open advanced compression format files or export them.

If you need to make an MP3, you also need to install the Lame software. Audacity will open an MP3 without it, but won't make a new one.

Koz

So, Audacity needs FFMPEG to work. I went and downloaded the FFMPEG build for Snow Leopard and up. Opened up the extracted folder and no libavformat dylib. I'm running Audacity 2.0.6.

... because you lost quality. A method of extracting the audio from the video into Audacity without making the audio quality worse is to install FFmpeg ( http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/faq_installation_and_plug_ins.html#ffdown ) then drag the original video file into Audacity. Gale

... AAC employs padding. M4A files produced by current iTunes seem to put the padding entirely at the end of the file, but the AAC encoder used in the FFmpeg version currently "recommended" for Audacity pads the start and end. Gale

... and many other formats are supported if you install a compatible version of FFMpeg (see: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/faq_installation_and_plug_ins.html#ffdown). The current version of Audacity is 2.0.6, and it is available ...

... option. I think it has something to do with the configuration of Realtek on my old Sony Vaio laptop. So I moved on to Gale's suggestion: Installed FFmpeg. Did research. Found out that if you go to the YouTube video you want and insert "ss" right before "YouTube" in the address, ...

... as it plays, you can download the audio of the videos direct to a file and burn that file to a CD. Or download the video file itself, install FFmpeg ( http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/faq_installation_and_plug_ins.html#ffdown ) then drag the video file into Audacity and it will extract ...

... can convert between many different audio formats. You can try converting your file to WAV. (But, I assume TAudioCoverter uses the same open source FFMPEG decoders that Audacity can optionally use.) If you have a desktop/tower computer with a regular soundcard, you can get the appropriate cable, ...

Installing FFmpeg fixed it! Thank you, you've been a real life saver

LAME is for writing MP3's - Audacity already comes with an MP3 decoder that can read MP3. Try installing FFmpeg ( http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/faq_installation_and_plug_ins.html#ffdown ). Then File > Import > Audio... , choose "FFmpeg-compatible files" in ...