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. Koz

... you have latest Audacity 1.3.13 Beta: http://audacity.googlecode.com/files/audacity-win-unicode-1.3.13.exe Then download and install the optional FFmpeg library which can import a much wider range of formats. You can read how in these two links: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/FAQ:Opening_and_Saving_Files#foreign ...

Audacity 1.3.13 may be able to import these files if you install FFMpeg, but Audacity is an audio program and will only import the audio stream from the files (assuming that it can import them at all).

Which version of Audacity are you using?
(recommended is Audacity 1.3.13, and install FFMpeg to provide Audacity with additional file type support)
http://audacityteam.org/download/
http://manual.audacityteam.org/index.ph ... tallffmpeg

... 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. ==================== ...

... see the files). There will be one or more .VOB files on the disk. Copy those onto your computer hard drive. If you use Audacity 1.3.13 and have FFMpeg installed you should be able to Import the VOB files into Audacity.

... extract, ("rip"), the audio from the video file. Audacity 1.3.x can only do this "rip audio from video" thing if the optional FFmpeg libraries are installed , and if the video file is of a certain type, as I mentioned above it will successfully do this if the video file is ...

You will need to install Audacity 1.3.13 Beta and the optional FFmpeg library to import WMA files (or, convert them to WAV so 1.2 can open them). This assumes Windows Media Player has not protected the files so that only it can play them. If that's the ...

... of the exported track an imported file? Does the "Lavf52.94.0" refer to information about that file, which looks like it was encoded by FFmpeg? If we can add hidden characters to metadata and reproduce the problem, then we can fix it. If we can't reproduce it, we can't fix it. Thanks ...

I'll bet Audacity isn't going to know what to do with that. Audacity 1.3 can rip the audio from certain video formats (MPEG4, WMV) if the FFmpeg libraries have been installed ... http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?p=97704#p97704 ... the optional FFmpeg Import/Export Library allow ...