Audacity Forum

Audacity uses Lame for MP3 export. Audacity uses FFmpeg for M4A export. Don't use the dot (".") character in file names. If you enter a file name as (for example) Ep 01 and then export as an MP3 file, then Audacity will automatically add ...

Is there a way to tell if the .WMA is version 1 or version 2?

There is more than one version of WMA. Audacity with FFmpeg can import version 1 but I don' think the FFmpeg version that we use supports version 2. Audacity does not support DRM protected WMA files. You can check if FFmpeg is installed by looking ...

I'm trying Audacity for the first time. I downloaded and installed version 2.0.3 (the .exe installer) and followed instructions to download Ffmpeg for Audacity. After installing Ffmpeg I closed Audacity and reopened it. But when I try to open a WMA file I still get the message saying that I ...

... an interest in it so far is Joel, as far as I can see. I can probably get Leland interested in it but he has other priorities now in getting an FFmpeg update going. A partial step towards the goal of an efficient metadata workflow would be to pass the common metadata from the first metadata ...

Try the instructions Alternative zip download for LAME 3.98.2 .

Do the same for FFmpeg if that is a problem: Alternative zip download for FFmpeg 0.6.2 .




Gale

I can't figure out how to get Audacity to recognize these libraries. I downloaded and ran the installer for the MP3, "Lame Library v3.98.2 for Audacity on OSX.dmg". The installation seemed to go okay, but now I can't find the file or get audacity to see it. I'm running os mavericks 10.9 w/...

Thanks you. I will try FFMPEG. I do use LAme with Audacity now.

... Can you not play the WMV files in Windows Media Player and listen to them to find out? Are these WMV files actual video recordings? If you install FFmpeg then you can drag the WMV files into Audacity and Audacity will extract the audio from the files for you to edit. If you want to export that ...

Have you installed the optional FFMPEG library? I don't know if it can decode your file, but it can handle most formats. As far as I can see, Rhetorax ADPCM is not listed as a supported format for FFmpeg. Perhaps the original device / software ...