Audacity Forum

... if that might be the issue and if there was a solution. The work computer runs WIndows XP, and I have no problem there. BTW, I did download the FFMpeg package right after I downloaded Audacity 2.0.

If the files turn out to be Something Magic, you may decide to download and install the FFMpeg package. FFMpeg allows Audacity to manage many more different files than it can by itself.

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Koz

Having learned on this forum that the reason I cannot export a selection to any form of ffmpeg is because of a bug in the Ubuntu build of Audacity 1.3.13, I wonder if anybody has a deb of Audacity 2 that will install under Ubuntu? Having loooked at the procedure for ...

... have been completed, but I'm stuck at the audio -> code part. After trying SoX's .dat output, their "stat" function, as well as ffmpeg's "silencedetect", I found out about audacity's "Sound finder" function (Though I've been using audacity for years). compared ...

... to load it into Audacity. That never works. Internally the file is an AAC, but Audacity thinks its an MP3, thus it is not decoded properly. Once FFmpeg is loaded you can import AAC files (usually M4A). -- Bill

... help! I've loaded the file into Quicktime player and it shows Format as AAC, 2 channels, 44100 Hz. I guess that's not mp3? Okay I've installed the FFmpeg extensions. So inside Audacity, Preferences, Libraries, the FFmpeg Library Version appears as F(52.64.2),C(52.72.2),U(50,15.1) I don't know what ...

The file you are importing probably isn't an MP3. Install the FFmpeg extensions as explained here: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/FAQ: ... Ins#ffdown

If you open the file in QuickTime Player then do a Get Info on it, what does it tell you?

-- Bill

The best you can do is install the FFMpeg software. That allows Audacity to recognize and process a very wide range of content, however, if VLC couldn't deal with it, that's not a good sign.
http://audacityteam.org/download/
Koz

Program gave two warnings: "Audacity attempted to use FFmpeg to import an audio file, but the libraries were not found" You need to install FFmpeg. Instructions are here: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/FAQ:Installation_and_Plug-Ins#ffdown ...

... has another language, so I am not sure, if Bring is the right word in English..) Program gave two warnings: "Audacity attempted to use FFmpeg to import an audio file, but the libraries were not found" and another: "Audacity did not recognize the type of the file "E:Ha_T.wav ...