Audacity Forum

Running 1.2.6 on Windows Vista. The recommended version for Vista is 1.3.14 You will probably also want to install Lame and FFMpeg. The downloads are here: http://audacityteam.org/download/ http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/FAQ:Installation_and_Plug-Ins#How_do_I_download_and_install_the_LAME_MP3_encoder.3F ...

... often produces less variation in file size when the music's complexity changes than "ABR" does. Audacity uses an optional library called FFmpeg to encode AAC. For AAC encoding, FFmpeg offers a choice of a library called libfaac or its own native AAC encoder. The downloadable FFmpeg installer ...

... -I../lib-src/sbsms/include -I../lib-src/libnyquist -I../lib-src/libvamp -I../lib-src/ffmpeg -I../lib-src/portsmf -I../lib-src/portaudio-v19/include -fno-strict-aliasing -I./include -I. -DLIBDIR="/usr/local/audacity/lib" -D__STDC_CONSTANT_MACROS ...

Unless Audacity has been patched to support ffmpeg-0.8.5-2, that version of FFMpeg is too new and not compatible with Audacity. If you can build Audacity from the source code there is a patch for Audacity that may work, though as far as I'm aware ...

Dear All What I have it is FEdora 16 x86_64 + ffmpeg-libs-0.8.5-2, ffmpeg-0.8.5-2 + audacity-freeworld-1.3.13-0.4.beta. When I start audacity in its log I got: 07:54:05 PM: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries... 07:54:05 PM: mLibAVFormatPath ('/usr/lib64/libavformat.so.52') ...

AMR files should be supported by current versions of Audacity 1.3 provided that you also have FFMpeg installed and Audacity is correctly configured to use FFMpeg. AMR narrow band can be imported and exported on Windows using the FFmpeg installer in the FAQ Steve linked ...

Hi Thanks for all the replies and explainations which have been very useful. No, I have not installed FFmpeg before. As a matter of interest, I have today installed this same Beta version on a XP Home laptop and receive the same details in the start up log file which I now ...

... It seems that the .dll files are missing for some reason as I would have thought they would have been part of the program and also the FFmpeg libraries may not be installed. FFMpeg is not included in Audacity as most users want to use builds of FFMpeg which are not strictly compatible ...

... the same. It seems that the .dll files are missing for some reason as I would have thought they would have been part of the program and also the FFmpeg libraries may not be installed. Richard

... Error: Couldn't find symbol 'MainPanelFunc' in a dynamic library (error 127: the specified procedure could not be found.) 14:52:00: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries... 14:52:00: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries from system paths. File name is 'avformat-52.dll'. 14:52:00: Looking up PATH environment ...