Audacity Forum

Thanks. Yes it is mp3, see attached. Interestingly, some files are opening, and some are not. The ones that are opening still display the first FFmpeg message window and then open. I keep all my music on an external hard drive attached to my pc. The tracks are still playing ok through a media ...

Where is D:\? Is that a cloud drive?

Koz

... Audacity will open those. You can find out what you really have with MediaInfo. https://mediaarea.net/MediaInfoOnline And yes, you can add the FFMpeg software to Audacity to open many different sound formats. https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/installing_and_updating_audacity_on_windows.html#winff ...

I normally just use File/Import/Audio and select an mp3 track. Now I get a message about FFmpeg and I cannot import the mp3. The message gives two options, the first says to go to Edit/Preferences/Libraries, where you have options to locate or download an FFmpeg library. ...

... give you an "invalid file" error instead of opening the file as "noise". Rename the file to .MP4 If you've already installed FFmpeg Audacity should open the file. If you haven't installed FFmpeg, download and run ffmpeg-win-2.2.2.exe to install it. Now, Audacity should be ...

... Snap and Flatpack versions of Audacity. Can you confirm that the snap version that you linked to is fully functional? (including support for Lame, FFmpeg and third party plug-ins?)

I realize this is an outdated thread but I had the same issue. After messing around, I think it was a hard drive issue - I was out of space, so Audacity couldn't handle the next mp3 I wanted to import. It's a weird explanation the software provides, but deleting files worked for me.

The link is working for me. Cloudflare was down earlier today so that might have been the problem.
-- Bill

HI There I am having trouble downloading the FFmpeg plugin needed to upload large audio files. When I follow the directions and click on the link in the manual the https://lame.buanzo.org/#lameosx64bitdl page will not load. I have tried accessing ...

steve wrote: ↑

Sun Aug 30, 2020 10:51 am

there will be an option that you could add for the target bit-rate.

I'm sure will be but I use this code in context menu to convert many files with different bitrate.

omg i'm idiot I wrote post on wrong forum hehe