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Audacity is married to the two software packages at the download site. Even better, the last time I tried to manually install lame and FFMpeg, it failed. You must use the automatic install and let it put the two packages in the directory of its choosing. If you have Mountain Lion, you may ...

... that it was installed. I tried setting the libmp3lame.dylib file in the preferences, and it still wouldn’t recognize it was installed. Same with FFmpeg. Is it possible to use more recent versions of LAME and FFmpeg? How, or why not?

If all the files play with VLC this suggests strongly that Audacity will import them if you use FFmpeg as already suggested. If not, try playing the files in VLC and recording them into Audacity ( see http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tutorial_recording_computer_playback_on_windows.html ...

The files are indeed MP3 and they play fine in Windows Media Player. I am unfamiliar with FFMpeg and I did not do a clean install. In other words, I installed 2.x on top of 1.x. Might that be the culprit?

... Options > View > [ ] Hide Extensions for Known File Types (deselect) -- Apply (to this folder) or Apply to All Folders -- OK Did you used to have FFMpeg installed on your old Audacity and did you do a completely clean install? Koz

... -I../lib-src/libresample/include -I../lib-src/sbsms/include -I../lib-src/libnyquist -I../lib-src/libvamp -I../lib-src/ffmpeg -I../lib-src/portsmf -I../lib-src/portaudio-v19/include -fno-strict-aliasing -I./include -I. -DLIBDIR="/usr/local//lib" -D__STDC_CONSTANT_MACROS ...

Audacity should import QCP if you add the optional FFmpeg library to your computer. Audacity can't write QCP files but the Ringtones Tutorial in the Audacity Manual lists a free conversion tool for converting from 8000 Hz 16-bit mono WAV to QCP and ...

... 1.5 MB) - Contains over 90 plug-ins. Plug-Ins - Download additional effects and filters. LAME MP3 encoder - Allows Audacity to export MP3 files. FFmpeg import/export library - Allows Au These are all "optional extras". To Export in MP3 format you will need to install LAME. The other ...

... 1.5 MB) - Contains over 90 plug-ins. Plug-Ins - Download additional effects and filters. LAME MP3 encoder - Allows Audacity to export MP3 files. FFmpeg import/export library - Allows Au Anyway, here are my questions. I have a lot of old cassette tapes and reel to reel tapes. I want to convert ...

you may easily find that you really have an .m4a or other highly compressed file type, not a WAV. You can open those up, but you need to add the FFMpeg software package to do it. Install from here. http://audacityteam.org/download/ Koz This is a direct link to the instructions and download http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/faq_installation_and_plug_ins.html#ffdown ...