Audacity Forum

Does FFMpeg support M4B? https://www.ffmpeg.org/general.html Audiobooks are normally protected, subscriber/server-based documents. It's possible you're trying to convert the subscription stub, not the sound. If you can play ...

Hi ... totally confused! I just installed Audacity 2.0.5 and Lame MP3 encoder on Windows 8.1. I was unable to get the FFmpeg library to .exe though. I'm trying to convert an M4B audio file (book) to MP3, but the file, when played back is just one long "hiss". I am only able ...

... MP3. When you export to MP3 you'll have lost quality twice. What you want to do is download the video (use your favourite search engine), then if FFmpeg support is enabled in Audacity, drag the video into Audacity and let it extract the audio to PCM so that it has no loss of quality. By the way ...

what is the version of FFmpeg I should be using? I installed whatever ver the audacity DL buttons in the prefs sent me to, which looks like 0.6.2 is that the current, latest, stable ver? in the command window when u make an ALAC, it ...

what is the version of FFmpeg I should be using? I installed whatever ver the audacity DL buttons in the prefs sent me to, which looks like 0.6.2 is that the current, latest, stable ver? in the command window when u make an ALAC, it ...

here's another question I have:

what is the version of FFmpeg I should be using?

I installed whatever ver the audacity DL buttons in the prefs sent me to, which looks like 0.6.2

is that the current, latest, stable ver? in the command window when u make an ALAC, it looks like its from 2010/2011.

I don't know if it's different on Linux, but on Windows (for LAME and FFmpeg) you can include spaces in tags by quoting the tag That's what should happen, but it didn't work for me on Linux. Possibly a minor bug. It works fine at the command line, but in Audacity ...

You can explicitly add metadata with something like: ffmpeg -i - -acodec alac -metadata title=my_title "%f" but note that a limitation is that the metadata cannot include spaces. I don't know if it's different on Linux, but on Windows (for ...

... Sound Mapper). How can I get the IDT to show up as a option? I have rune Lame v3.99 and Audacity under Libraries says it has detected valid FFMpeg libraries. What am I doing wrong? Thanks for any help.

MrSinatra wrote: is there a switch I can add to your ALAC command line to xfer tags?

You can explicitly add metadata with something like: but note that a limitation is that the metadata cannot include spaces.