Audacity Forum

Lame is used to make an MP3. That's all it does. FFMpeg is used to both Import and Export advanced sound formats like AC3 and M4A. I see you use the word "Save." Audacity will not save a sound file. Audacity only saves Projects. You can ...

Previouslu i used LAME, now downloaded FFMpeg - no positive result.
The same problem - can't recognise the format of file, try to save it as file with no tittle.
Yes, I'm using Windows 7

Audacity may not recognize all modern sound formats. So you may have a track that plays perfectly anywhere on earth except Audacity. You can add the FFMpeg software to Audacity and it will recognize many more different types of sound files.

You need to tell me more about your system. Windows?

Koz

... available shortly for 14.04 & 14.10. The 14.04 build will use libav9, the 14.10 possibly will be using libav10 (patches also allow the use of FFmpeg > 1.2 For 14.04 it will first show in -proposed, look for 2.0.5-1ubuntu3.2, the current one, 2.0.5-1ubuntu3.1, needed fixing which has been done ...

... available shortly for 14.04 & 14.10. The 14.04 build will use libav9, the 14.10 possibly will be using libav10 (patches also allow the use of FFmpeg > 1.2 For 14.04 it will first show in -proposed, look for 2.0.5-1ubuntu3.2, the current one, 2.0.5-1ubuntu3.1, needed fixing which has been done ...

... you want to record. If the material is online videos you can often download the videos (look online for how to do that). You can then install FFmpeg , drag the video into Audacity and Audacity will extract the audio for you. Gale

No matter what I try, I can't seem to get FFmpeg configured to allow exporting M4A (AAC) Files: I am using Audacity V 2.0.5 on a PC, and have downloaded Lame_v3.99.3_for_Windows.exe, but the only .dll Audacity finds is lame_enc.dll. To use FFmpeg, ...

No matter what I try, I can't seem to get FFmpeg configured to allow exporting M4A (AAC) Files: I am using Audacity V 2.0.5 on a PC, and have downloaded Lame_v3.99.3_for_Windows.exe, but the only .dll Audacity finds is lame_enc.dll. Audacity simply ...

... Mac machine with a 1 GB "OGG file containing FLAC" written by VLC 2.1.4. In any case Audacity 2.0.6 when released will either update to FFmpeg 2.2.x or use FFmpeg indirectly through another API (GStreamer). So the behaviour may change in any case. What concernes VLC: since latest upgrading ...

... If your book is to be published or given to others then you should export as an M4A (AAC) file from Audacity. This requires you to add the FFmpeg library to your computer as per http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/faq_installation_and_plug_ins.html#ffdown . AAC has formal support for chapter ...