Audacity Forum

... time. Audacity 1.2 will not open projects made on Audacity 1.3. If you use MP3 or some of the more modern audio compression formats, get Lame and FFMpeg software from the same web site. Do not use older software or software from other web sites, even though they may have the same names.

... -- perhaps QuickTime doesn't provide the right data to apps which rely on it. Certainly HE is less compatible than LC. Audacity on Windows (using FFmpeg) imports an HE encoded AAC file created by iTunes OK. You could try encoding to HE in iTunes ("Import Settings" in the Preferences) ...

... time. Audacity 1.2 will not open projects made on Audacity 1.3. If you use MP3 or some of the more modern audio compression formats, get Lame and FFMpeg software from the same web site. Do not use older software or software from other web sites, even though they may have the same names.

Audacity uses QuickTime to import AAC on Mac if FFmpeg is not present. Thanks for the reply. Sound Studio 2 also uses QuickTime, but it opens the file correctly (stereo, 44.1kHz). Is it possible to post the file to yousendit, sendspace, megaupload ...

Audacity v1.3.13-beta, Mac OS X v10.6.8 Attempting to open an MP4 file with Audacity (without ffmpeg) yields incorrect parameters. The file is 44.1kHz, stereo, 16-bit AAC, 48kbps profile: High-Efficiency v2 encoder: Lavf52.94.0 Audacity opens it as mono, 22kHz. The only ...

Audacity v1.3.13-beta, Mac OS X v10.6.8 Attempting to open an MP4 file with Audacity (without ffmpeg) yields incorrect parameters. The file is 44.1kHz, stereo, 16-bit AAC, 48kbps profile: High-Efficiency v2 encoder: Lavf52.94.0 Audacity opens it as mono, 22kHz. The only ...

There are several different types of WMA files. FFMPeg supports WMA version 2. Just as Microsoft keeps changing the format of .DOC files so that people have to buy the new version of Office, they have also changed the format of WMA files several ...

Thanks Koz The files I'm importing truly are true WMA files and I already have the FFmpeg for Audacity program loaded. I've tried again and it is still compressing songs to lengths of les than a second so I'm really stuck. I can't understand how it worked for about ...

... Steve described, so PowerPoint thinks it is a WAV. If you want to write a WAV with MP3 inside you can do it with Audacity, choosing "Custom FFmpeg Export" when you export, but you have to add FFmpeg to your computer for Audacity to use. Gale

... time. Audacity 1.2 will not open projects made on Audacity 1.3. If you use MP3 or some of the more modern audio compression formats, get Lame and FFMpeg software from the same web site. Do not use older software or software from other web sites, even though they may have the same names. The process ...