Audacity Forum

... the file for #define EXPERIMENTAL_THEME_PREFS ) FWIW, (unmodified) Audacity displays fine on Debian (which has a dark theme by default). my ffmpeg version is too new, apparently You may be able to get ffmpeg working by specifying "local library" rather than "system library" ...

This problem has occurred both with 2.0.5 and svn 13081. Am building from source in a BLFS-7.4 environment, with --disable-ffmpeg (my ffmpeg version is too new, apparently). Linux kernel is 3.13.3. After the dialog box containing the error (subject line; also tells me to report the ...

The Auto Recovery failed. The log shows 15:42:37: Audacity 2.0.5 [...] 15:42:42: Actual avutil path C:Program Files (x86)Ffmpeg For Audacityavutil-50.dll 15:42:42: Actual avcodec path C:Program Files (x86)Ffmpeg For Audacityavcodec-52.dll 15:42:42: Actual avformat path C:Program Files ...

... http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/recovery.html Yes. The Auto Recovery failed. The log shows 15:42:37: Audacity 2.0.5 15:42:41: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries... 15:42:41: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries from default path, 'C:Program Files (x86)Ffmpeg For Audacityavformat-52.dll'. 15:42:41: ...

If iPad created the CAF file it probably contains AAC audio. If so, install FFmpeg ( http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/fa ... tml#ffdown ) then Audacity should import the file.


Gale

It might work if you install Ffmpeg. See: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/fa ... tml#ffdown

I should add that Audacity won't compile against higher than FFmpeg 0.8. If you already have a later FFmpeg version than that, it may be simpler just to use FFmpeg at the command-line to convert the M4A file to WAV for usage in Audacity. ffmpeg -i filename.m4a ...

... The M4A extension is correct for a file containing AAC audio. Thanks for the screenshot which makes clear that the Audacity build does not have FFmpeg support compiled in (but can export MP3 files). This is the penalty of using unstable releases of distros. If you must use "Jessie" ...

... Audacity. I noticed when I place a m4v audio, it will not decode it. After doing some searching, I found that I should point audacity to LAME and FFMPEG libraries, but when I go to Edit > Preferences > Libraries, all options ("Locate.." and "Download") for the MP3 export library ...

... Audacity. I noticed when I place a m4v audio, it will not decode it. After doing some searching, I found that I should point audacity to LAME and FFMPEG libraries, but when I go to Edit > Preferences > Libraries, all options ("Locate.." and "Download") for the MP3 export library ...