Audacity Forum

Command Line Export refers to the exporter 's command line, not Audacity's command line. You can call lame, ffmpeg, etc from within Audacity and use command line programs to export from the GUI. So the answer is no, you can't export using Audacity on the command line. There are ...

Ordinary Audacity doesn't understand fancy music file formats. To do that, you have to download and install the FFMpeg software from here...

http://audacityteam.org/download/

Pick your operating system and follow the links.

Koz

A more recent version of the Ffmpeg export library is available than “avformat-52.dll” (actually “avformat-54.dll”). Audacity 2.0.0 RC1 won’t accept the more recent version. Is there any way to force Audacity to accept any “avformat-x.dll”? ...

... file. Itried dragging it directly from itunes to audacity, and going to the file on my harddrive. It keeps saying "Audacity attempted to FFmpeg to import an audio file, but the libraries were not found." I don't understand what I'm doing wrong. Any help would be appreiated.

A more recent version of the Ffmpeg export library is available than “avformat-52.dll” (actually “avformat-54.dll”). Audacity 2.0.0 RC1 won’t accept the more recent version. Is there any way to force Audacity to accept any “avformat-x.dll”?

wow! this audacity seems to be a great tool!! I have installed lame 3.99 and ffmpeg pack too!! I am happy with Audacity. the trim process went fine! :)) => is it possible to select more parts in a ac3 file? I 'd be even more happy hehe :)) if I select a part (dark ...

... Shift key pressed). ok. then, leaving this part selected, edit>remove audio>trim. then export: *file name* adding *.ac3*-extension, drop menù: ac3 ffmpeg, options: 448Kbps > clic save. question1) => doing so I become the WHOLE file (25 minutes instead of 3:35minutes music). also the part remains ...

... If you want to try doing the job with Audacity, you'll need to install Audacity 1.3.14 (http://audacityteam.org/download/ ) and FFmpeg (http://manual.audacityteam.org/index.php?title=FAQ:Installation_and_Plug-Ins#installffmpeg ). Audacity may then be able to import the file and ...

... know much about Macs but this may not be possible). As Koz suggested, a workaround would be to use a video capture program to record. If you have FFmpeg installed Audacity can import the audio from several video file formats (though it does not allow you to capture from a video "device").

... more than an eight channel WMA Pro file to test, but all the channels of that file import into Audacity 2.0.0 rc1. Audacity relies on the external FFmpeg library to import Windows Media files. If VLC can actually play a 23 channel Windows Media file it possibly uses FFmpeg to do so, which suggests ...