Audacity Forum

... fast. If you already have a voice track, Audacity > File > Import and see if it opens. If your files are odd formats, you may need to install the FFMpeg plugin so Audacity knows what to do with them. https://www.audacityteam.org/download/windows/ Scroll down. Koz

... I realized that wouldn't have worked, oops), and then by copying it to the hard drive. Neither of which worked. Regarding a installing the full FFMPeg package, I tried that yesterday and I think that's eventually how I got ahold of the file avformat-55.dll. Any other thoughts?

... copy protected (or the copy protection has already been cracked) and you should be able to extract the audio. avformat-55.dll is just one of the FFmpeg files. Follow Koz's link and downwnload and RUN ffmpeg-win-2.2.2.exe to install the whole package. Also, DVDs are split into multiple VOB files ...

... layer) so we would skip the large PCM sound and only use the smaller AC3 track. Never had a client complain. Audacity may need you to install the FFMpeg software to open AC3. Scroll down for optional downloads. https://www.audacityteam.org/download/windows/ Do you know which of the copy protection ...

LAME and ffMPEG have nothing to do with importing - they are for exporting audio files from Audacity. It is possible to force Audacity to try importing via FFmpeg before using the normal MP3 importer. To do that you need to select ...

In 2.4.2 we tightened up error reporting when importing MP3 files. This is what you're seeing. LAME and ffMPEG have nothing to do with importing - they are for exporting audio files from Audacity. You could try installing the VLC Media Player. You could then load the files ...

By "default location for Audacity" I meant "/Library/Application Support/audacity/libs/"

Yes, you can have many installations of ffMPEG. I still suggest you download and run the recommended PKG installer.

-- Bill

Well,

In the preferences settings for audacity, its looking for this file: ffmpeg.55.64bit.dylib
It's not looking for where audacity is installed.

In my installation of ffmpeg I can't find this file.

Can I have two versions of ffmpeg at the same time if I use the version for audacity?

You can either point Audacity to the location where you installed ffMPEG, or you can use the installer linked-to from here, which will put the correct version of ffMPEG into the default location for Audacity.
-- Bill

Hi Bill, I don't recall, I think its under /usr/local/bin This is what I see: % ls -al /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg lrwxr-xr-x 1 computer4 admin 35 Sep 27 00:22 /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg -> ../Cellar/ffmpeg/4.3.1_1/bin/ffmpeg As I mentioned in my previous post, I also see files under ...