Audacity Forum

Gale Andrews wrote: I somehow assumed Audacity at least wouldn't still be mounted.

DMG images remain "mounted" until the user explicitly "ejects" them. They are ejected on a shut-down or restart.

-- Bill

... the music to my pc to make a cd. However the music is protected and will not play on my pc nor import into Audacity even though I have installed ffMPEG. Looking at some earlier posts it seems that 'protected' cannot be imported? Is this still the case/is there some way of converting WMA to MP3 ...

... in the Manual, but we have to wait for the owner of the lame1 site to respond. I don't know if release 1.3.14 caused my problem with locating the FFmpeg files I believe it was the rogue installer. When you open the "Locate FFmpeg" dialogue now, does it say that it needs libavformat-52.dylib ...

Also I don't understand in your images why the Audacity and FFmpeg folders appear under "Devices". Can Bill or Koz provide some input on that? Where would Ron expect to see Application Support/audacity in his home library in that Finder tree? ...

... button in the Prefs window he should navigate to that location: - start by clicking the "Browse" button in the "Locate FFmpeg" window - in the resulting file-open dialog: - click "Applications" in the sidebar of the file open dialog - open the "Audacity" ...

Also I don't understand in your images why the Audacity and FFmpeg folders appear under "Devices". Can Bill or Koz provide some input on that? Where would Ron expect to see Application Support/audacity in his home library in that Finder tree? ...

... a look at this later today. However he confirms the path /~/Library/Application Support/audacity" is invalid. So I've changed the link in the FFmpeg FAQ to another installer: http://www.gaclrecords.org.uk/FFmpeg_v0.6.2_for_Audacity_on_OSX.dmg Can you see if that installs to /usr/local/lib/audacity ...

... placed the file "audacity.cfg" in the audacity folder at path /~/Library/Application Support/audacity. I downloaded the zip version for FFmpeg, unzipped the file and placed the entire folder named "FFmpeg_v0.6.2_for_Audacity_on_OSX" in the Applications folder for Audacity. ...

... Use the Go button in Finder to go to ~/Library/Application Support/audacity/ (that is, the Library in your home folder). If you see those ffmpeg files in there (ffmpeg, the gpl-v3.txt and the eight files whose names start with lib), delete them. Now paste in the audacity.cfg that you just ...

Gale,

In case I did not specify the correct path in my latest post, it is /~/Library/Application Support/audicity.

Ron