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... much useless. By "bad cellphone call," I mean a call where the person keeps saying, "What!?!" Another note: If you have the FFMpeg software installed... http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/faq_installation_and_plug_ins.html#ffdown . ...then Audacity will directly open many ...

... of my laptop. I've used it on another laptop and it worked fine. Kind regards, Liz log file: 20:34:23: Audacity 2.0.3 20:34:27: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries... 20:34:27: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries from system paths. File name is 'avformat-52.dll'. 20:34:27: Looking up PATH environment ...

Would yo0u post the output from "Help > Audio device info".

By the way, most of the log information is just Audacity looking for if/where/how ffmpeg is installed.

... Error: Couldn't find symbol 'MainPanelFunc' in a dynamic library (error 127: the specified procedure could not be found.) 09:30:37: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries... 09:30:37: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries from default path, 'C:Program FilesFfmpeg For Audacityavformat-52.dll'. 09:30:37: Looking ...

tlinclay71 wrote:... the imported audio is not recognized by Audacity.

Sounds like you need to add something called FFmpeg to Audacity so it can recognise the format of the audio file you are trying to import, see ...http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/fa ... tml#ffdown

found and installed FFmpeg for Audacity. No longer seeing failed messages in the log. Thanks - those messages are not really errors - just a notice that you have not installed FFmpeg. Importing files that lack numbers in the file names ...

lightspout wrote:SOLVED!! Thanks very much.

Did FFmpeg solve it or iTunes? It really helps us and others to know exactly what solved a problem.


Gale

Have you installed FFmpeg http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/faq_installation_and_plug_ins.html#ffdown ? This may be necessary depending on what compressed format the AIFC actually contains. Alternatively if you have iTunes you can ...

... . Extracted DVD audio will usually be in AAC format. If so, you can download FFmpeg to import AAC: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/faq_installation_and_plug_ins.html#ffdown . Gale

Audacity doesn't have codecs to convert anything, but you can install the FFMpeg software and get all of its codecs. http://manual.audacityteam.org/index.php?title=FAQ:Installation_and_Plug-Ins#installffmpeg It is suggested that if you need no editing, filtering ...