Audacity Forum

... OK, now you know you really have m4a or some other filetype. If you do have one of the more highly compressed types, you may need to install the FFMpeg software so Audacity can deal with them. http://manual.audacityteam.org/index.php?title=FAQ:Installation_and_Plug-Ins#installffmpeg I have recorded ...

Which version of FFMpeg do you have installed?

... time. Usually I use Audacity to improve my audio in my movie files (.MOV or .mp4). Tonight in Gentoo, as a part of update to 2.0.3 it was removed ffmpeg flag, so I am unable to load any of .MOV or .mp4 files and after eg. using Import Raw I have only a white noise. I was trying to downgrade to ...

... files on my computer. Why? What format are the files in? File > Import > Audio... in Audacity. If you need support for other file formats, install FFmpeg: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/faq_installation_and_plug_ins.html#ffdown . In order to do this, I would normally go to the control panel, ...

steve wrote: You can currently use other (newer) versions of FFmpeg using the command line export Yes but the user wants to import WMA Lossless as I understand it, even though the Audacity command-line exporter could be used with FFmpeg 1.x at the export ...

... reset Audacity preferences from 32-floating to 16-bit and it will start working. Edit > Preferences > Quality. In this case, you didn't need the FFMpeg. That's only if you already have a stand-alone music or sound file you want Audacity to open and the software isn't already inside Audacity. Koz

... Followed the instructions "To import additional types of audio file or extract audio from video files, download and install FFmpeg, then import the file. FFmpeg can also extract audio from the individual VOB files stored on unencrypted DVDs." Put the FFMpeg library files ...

... apparently 0.7 did not bring any API change The command-line syntax is not the problem, rather the Audacity code that interfaces with the dynamic FFmpeg libraries that are used when loading FFmpeg from Preferences. I've built FFmpeg 0.8 on Windows using MinGW and the Windows build of Audacity ...

You can currently use other (newer) versions of FFMpeg using the command line export http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/ex ... ogram.html
This has the disadvantage that users need to know what command line arguments to enter, but it does work.

I know since 0.11 CLI synthax has changed quite a bit,
So maybe a more modest upgrade to 0.8 or 0.9 or even 0.10

But apparently 0.7 did not bring any API change
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