Audacity Forum

... apple updated)? There are size-compressed formats that are much smaller than WAV or AIFF, but you lose some quality. You could try installing FFmpeg ( http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/faq_installation_and_plug_ins.html#macff ) then export as M4A (AAC) files. This is a size-compressed format ...

I checked FFmpeg downloads. According to Audacity, it supports versions between 0.6 and 0.8? So the last 0.8.9 should be ok? I think you would have to try it, or pore over the release changelog for the FFmpeg version. Some people ...

I checked FFmpeg downloads. According to Audacity, it supports versions between 0.6 and 0.8? So the last 0.8.9 should be ok?

... in are solely the responsibility of the distribution. As I've said before elsewhere, I think endlessly patching Audacity to keep up with frequent FFmpeg changes for dynamic library loading is misguided. It would be much better for Audacity to provide a GUI for FFmpeg import and export leveraging ...

I managed to build custom FFmpeg 0.8.6 and compiled Audacity to work with it. Well done. x264: ./configure --prefix="$HOME/ffmpeg_build" --bindir="$HOME/bin" --enable-shared FFmpeg: ./configure --prefix="$HOME/ffmpeg_build" ...

I managed to build custom FFmpeg 0.8.6 and compiled Audacity to work with it. Most of the time I had no idea what I was doing and I was following these pages: http://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/UbuntuCompilationGuide http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Compiling_Audacity_for_Beginners ...

Are you saying the packaged build of Audacity that comes with Ubuntu 14.04 does not have FFmpeg support? I thought this was just a problem with Ubuntu 14.04 Beta, but from a quick search, it appears Canonical have compiled the Audacity package that comes with 14.04 ...

... so I can't help with patches, but I have to find the way to make it work. Steve told you how to make it work. For example, open a terminal: ffmpeg -i client.m4a client.wav This will take the file "client.m4a" in your home folder and produce a file "client.wav" in the ...

It seems there is a problem because Audacity supports old FFmpeg and does not compile against libav which comes with latest distributions. There is a bug report which is was reported almost 2 years ago: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/audacity/+bug/1076928 ...

It seems there is a problem because Audacity supports old FFmpeg and does not compile against libav which comes with latest distributions. There is a bug report which is was reported almost 2 years ago: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/audacity/+bug/1076928 ...