Audacity Forum

I believe that we have success, the track now loads normally.
Thank you for your help.

By default it will install to
\Program Files (x86)\FFmpeg for Audacity\
so your current version (unless it's for an old version of Audacity) will not be affected.

Uninstall current version first, or allow it to overwrite during new install?

I think that I see what you are looking for, my file type option, it was set to FFmpeg compatible files. Yes. That's why Audacity is attempting to import the file with FFmpeg first, and only when that fails (because you don't have a compatible version of FFmpeg) ...

I think that I see what you are looking for, my file type option, it was set to FFmpeg compatible files. I had already disabled the first message window that we had earlier, so that one is not happening now, but the second message window is still active. I have ...

I think I know what's wrong, but I'm not sure what it looks like on Windows. Please do this: 1. Launch Audacity 2. "File menu > Import > Audio" 3. Select the file "test-tone-1000Hz.mp3" but DO NOT click the "Open" button - stop at this point with the browser window open...

Still the same, but there is the option for the window not to appear again, I checked it and tried again, and that message windpw does not appear now.

Hi Nick, I also realized that the click-through from the Website takes you too a preliminary page first and then a further click to get to the page that you need (plus click the link to the external website). So I updated that to cut out the un-necessary preliminary page. Sorry that doesn't help you...

The link to the FFmpeg was spot-on, (why can't it be that simple on the Audacity website?) It's due to licensing restrictions, if we hosted it directly we would have to pat license fees - and then in turn we would have to charge ...

Thank you very much DVDdoug - you nailed it in one! The link to the FFmpeg was spot-on, (why can't it be that simple on the Audacity website?) and you were right about the file format. Although the songs were titled as 'Song Name Number 1 etc.mp3' when I checked ...