Audacity Forum

... I would use Windows Media to do that. I think Windows Media always converts everything to WMA which Audacity will not play without installing the FFMpeg software. And it's compressed audio. I want to say I used to use CDEX software. Koz

Moved to the Mac OS X board. I have a mac running 0sx 10.7.5, I'm using audacity 2.0.3 I want to convert mp3 to wma but it can't seem to find ffmpeg and the file libavcodec.52.dylib, no matter where I put it. I have followed the instructions precisely, downloaded the zip file version (several ...

... have to re-compress. DGIndex is a tool to extract the audio. Does this new version of Audacity with plugins do that as well? With the optional FFMPEG library, Audacity should be able to open the MPEG (.VOB) file and extract the AC3 audio. (LPCM audio shouldn't require FFMPEG). You'll also need ...

Hi I have a mac running 0sx 10.7.5, I'm using audacity 2.0.3 I want to convert mp3 to wma but it can't seem to find ffmpeg and the file libavcodec.52.dylib, no matter where I put it. I have followed the instructions precisely, downloaded the zip file version (several times, from ...

... happen? Where does the sound come from? Who is performing and where? How sure are you that the work is in MP3? If your original Audacity had the FFMpeg software applied, the show could have been in a number of advanced formats and you would have no way of knowing. If the new computer trying to ...

Tell us where you read that.
You need lame to export an MP3 and FFMpeg to manage advanced compressed audio file formats.

Koz

... save uncompressed files. You can try changing the extension to CAF or AIF and see what that does. If the file contains AAC audio then installing FFmpeg may allow Audacity to import the file. Or try Garageband as the blog says ( see https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4730687?start=0&tstart=0 ...

... and model number of the computer. Are you recording the audio of a video file? If so, there may be better solutions than that - you can install FFmpeg ( http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/faq_installation_and_plug_ins.html#ffdown ) then drag the video into Audacity and Audacity will extract ...

... Were you able to get that to work? http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tutorial_recording_audio_playing_on_the_computer.html You can install the FFMpeg software into your Audacity and that will Audacity to recognize and Export many more different sound formats than Audacity alone. http://manual.audacityteam.org/index.php?title=FAQ:Installation_and_Plug-Ins#installffmpeg

kozikowski wrote:If you install the FFmpeg software, Audacity will export G.726.

Can you make it work? I think it's one of those combinations that just exports an empty file. I tried leaving bit rate empty, and 32 kbps.


Gale