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My program was working fine relating to FFMpeg until about a week ago. Now it will not import m4a files and says it cannot locate the ffmpeg file. I browse to the file, select it, click OK, then try to import the ffmpeg file and it still says ...

I think the first thing I would do is cast off Audacity 2.0.4. Get Audacity 2.0.6 from here.

http://audacityteam.org/download/windows

During the installer, it will ask you if you want to reset Audacity as well as reinstall. Say yes.

Koz

My program was working fine relating to FFMpeg until about a week ago. Now it will not import m4a files and says it cannot locate the ffmpeg file. I browse to the file, select it, click OK, then try to import the ffmpeg file and it still says ...

... that you have wxWidgets (libwxgtk) 2.8.x - preferably version 2.8.12, including the development headers (may be called "dev" packages). FFmpeg can be problematic so I would strongly recommend that, for your initial build, you compile without FFmpeg support ./configure --without-ffmpeg ...

As you'll know, 2.0.6 requires a later version of FFmpeg than 2.0.5.

I do now.
Koz

Thanks for the report . As you'll know, 2.0.6 requires a later version of FFmpeg than 2.0.5. Audacity has been fixed so that if you run 2.0.6 or later after 2.0.5, the incompatible version of FFmpeg that was configured for 2.0.5 won't cause Audacity to freeze. ...

Audacity will import several common sound file formats, but to greatly expand the list, load the FFMpeg software (scroll down).

http://audacityteam.org/download/windows

Koz

... The forum is a SPAM magnet and is seen by many companies eager to sell you stuff. It's not LAME that you need to install. Installing the FFMpeg software will allow you to open many different sound file types. http://audacityteam.org/download/windows You can also force Windows to tell ...

If you read http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/faq_installation_and_plug_ins.html#ffdown you can see that the supported FFmpeg version is 2.2.2. I know that 2.2.3 should also work and the Manual for the next release of Audacity (2.1.0) will say that. Any version of FFmpeg is accepted ...

Using Audacity 2.0.6 on Windows 7 SP1 x64. Wasted a lot of time trying to get it to accept ffmpeg-2.5.2-win32-shared package containing avformat-56.dll. I could browse to the DLL, select it, and click OK, but the message in the window remained "FFmpeg not found". ...