Audacity Forum

... install of Audacity to custom export the sound track from a short video show. Audacity installed OK and seems to run, but can't find either the FFMpeg or Lame libraries, even though they're in the correct folders/directories. I'm running Audacity as LowlyUser, but I installed everything as administrator ...

Many thanks Bill, it works fine now and the Preferences, Libraries tab says what you quoted in your last email.
Regards,
Islandman

Thanks Bill for your reply, here is the log: [snip] 10:32:19: Loading avutil from '/Users/macbookpro/Desktop/FFmpeg_v0.6.2_for_Audacity_on_OSX/libavutil.50.dylib'. 10:32:19: Loading avcodec from '/Users/macbookpro/Desktop/FFmpeg_v0.6.2_for_Audacity_on_OSX/libavcodec.52.dylib'. ...

Thanks Bill for your reply, here is the log: 10:32:18: Audacity 2.0.0 10:32:18: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries... 10:32:18: mLibAVFormatPath ('/Users/macbookpro/Desktop/FFmpeg_v0.6.2_for_Audacity_on_OSX/libavcodec.52.dylib') is not empty. Loading from it. 10:32:18: Checking ...

"FFmpeg_v0.6.2_Audacity_on_OSX/ffmpeg" is not what Audacity is looking for. It is looking for "libavformat.52.dylib". I take you downloaded the zip version of the FFmpeg libraries and extracted it to your desktop. In Audacity ...

I'm a Windows user so treat what I say with appropriate caution. I have my LAME and FFMPEG libraries stored in the same place rather than in different places. Have you tried putting your FFMPEG libraries in the same place as the LAME libraries?

... voice recorder and export as mp3. I have downloaded Audacity 2.0 dmg on my Apple OSX 10.6.8 and placed it in Applications. The problem is that the FFmpeg library for importing wma files always comes up with the message that it "cannot be found" even though it is on the desktop at: /Users/macbookpro.Desktop/FFmpeg_v0.6.2_Audacity_on_OSX/ffmpeg ...

... > Audio and choose "MP3 files" in the "Files of type" drop-down to force Audacity use the MP3 importer. Alternatively, install FFmpeg then FFmpeg will take the file even if you use File > Open or drag the file in. Gale

To import WMA format files you need to download and install the FFMpeg libraries.

See here: http://manual.audacityteam.org/help/man ... tml#ffdown

... playback for Windows Media Audio (WMA) files. You can export MP3 from Audacity by adding LAME to your computer, and you can export WMA by adding FFmpeg to your computer. Gale