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... the Microsoft supplied MP3 decoder to open MP3s, and normally that "just works". If it's a different format, you might need the optional FFMPEG library from this page . In order to save (export) in MP3 fromat, you need the optional LAME encoder.

... des musiques, mais ça me dit de les convertir et WAV ou en AIFF et je sais pas du tout comment faire.. En plus, ça dit q'il faut la bibliothèque FFmpeg et je ne sais pas ce que c'est non plus.. Merci d'avance parce que j'ai un peu de mal mais j'ai vraiment besoin d'y arriver ^^

Hi Rabbithutch There are specific instructions to install the FFMPEG plug in in the attached link to my tutorials. I use the FFMPEG feature all the time to strip audio from videos. See tutorial 1 in this set of 3. Stearman65 http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=70426&p=203188#p203188

The other important thing to note is that unless you tell it otherwise iTunes will use a virtual library by default. That is it will not actually import the files into its library but will just make reference to where they are stored externally. Which means that if you have that setting then you mus...

... or Apples's lossless format but these produce large audio files so you will get a lot lees music on your iDevice. Personally I don't bother with FFmpeg for exporting AAC from Audacity or LAME for importing MP3 as iTunes can do the conversions for me (and it does them a bit quicker than Audacity). ...

... iPod quickly - most folk would use MP3 or AAC (Apples compression format). You can export MP3 or AAC from Audacity (tou need to download LAME and FFmpeg software for that). Personally I export 16-bit WAVS import those into iTunes and use iTunes to convert them to AAC (I use 256 VBR). This is my ...

... you, kozikowski! I warned you up front that there is much that I do not know about sound recordings. I thought that Lame was a codec that included FFMPEG and that by installing it I would be able to do what I'm trying to do. I should have stated my problem more simply instead of providing so much ...

Audacity - which I just downloaded today - is V 2.0.2.

Bless you. People insist on saying "I got the latest Audacity" when in fact they have no such thing.

Koz

The lame program is for MP3 files and it's only for making them. Audacity already knows how to play them. FFMpeg is a separate program that's written to know about much more modern and different digital music formats -- playing them and making them. You can get FFMpeg from the ...

... the installation wizard; however, when I open Audacity and try to set preferences using Edit|Preferences|Libraries, I receive the message that the FFMPEG library is not found. When I attempt to locate it (in the Program Files(x86) Lame for Audacity sub-directory, I get the message that the 'avformat-52.dll' ...