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... show and where did you get it from? Audacity does not behave particularly well with "foreign" compression system or formats. Do you have FFMpeg installed? When was the last time you restarted your machine from power off? Which Audacity exactly do you have? Audacity > About Audacity or ...

... many hours today making ringtones from various music files and exporting them as mp3s. (MacOS 10.8.5, audacity 2.0.4 from .dmg plus LAME and ffmpeg libraries.) I am extracting short snippets designed to loop as seamlessly as possible (following the editing instructions from the ringtone tutorial). ...

It didn't like the FFmpeg thing either, so I took a chance and changed the install location for LAME to the Audacity app folder itself, and everything (including me) is now happy. The burning question, though, is what happened? As ...

It didn't like the FFmpeg thing either, so I took a chance and changed the install location for LAME to the Audacity app folder itself, and everything (including me) is now happy. The burning question, though, is what happened? As ...

... out access to the folder where LAME is installed. To fix it, please follow the instructions to download the "alternative zip download for FFmpeg 0.6.2" on http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/faq_installation_and_plug_ins.html#macff . Gale

I would have guessed the FFMpeg libraries myself. FFMpeg is the system that allows Audacity to open and manage many different advanced audio formats.

http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/fa ... tml#ffdown

Koz

... assume that the existing Lame and FFmppeg programs are not affected ? You can install 2.0.4 over the top of 2.0.3 - and no need to upgrade LAME or FFmpeg. Please see: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/faq_installation_and_plug_ins.html#Windows:_How_do_I_install_Audacity.2C_and_do_I_have_to_uninstall_a_previous_version_first.3F ...

... captured by abrt with backtrace. Biggest changes in fedora package appear to be: enabling libsoxr, using system portaudio, changes to use ffmpeg-compat. Do any of these interact with Equalizer effect ?

Thanks for the log. It shows LAME and FFmpeg were loaded in about 40 seconds. Are you determining that Audacity has loaded when your screen reader says "Audacity"? Are you importing a long WAV file when you start Audacity? Have you ...

The same version of FFmpeg (0.6.2) is needed for 2.0.4 as 2.0.3. I can reproduce the "Open with" problem - another user mentioned it to me yesterday. Audacity makes no attempt to import the file according to the log. I would ...