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... 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

I'm a little surprised that Audacity still crashes when using FFmpeg to import the MP3, but I doubt we can help given you can't provide a backtrace and the crash doesn't happen on Ubuntu or other distributions that Team members use. It would need someone ...

... package. Audacity can't be delivered with MP3 because it's licensed software. You can also export some of the more exotic formats with the FFMpeg software. Get all that from the main software download page. http://audacityteam.org/download/ Audacity will not Save a sound file. You have ...

... 'L' will be random characters or just... gibberish. Troubleshooting so far ------- Reinstalled Audacity and its media libraries (Lame 3.98.3 & FFmpeg) - no change run older version of audacity - no change Tried other files that have worked in the past - no change Tried to export other file ...

... [/u] [/color] (FREE!!!). (I don't use either of these programs, so I'm only assuming they can do it...) Or, you might be able to do it with FFMPEG or AviSynth, but you'd probably have to find the right a command line. Or, you may be able to do it with a multiplexer, such as Muxman [/color] ...

... have a video in wmv format that has a lot of background audio noise (hiss or hum.) I was able to extract the sound track using 1.3.x beta plus the ffmpeg add-on, and adjust the sound to an acceptable level. Now I don't know how to get the sound file attached back to the original wmv file. Any ideas ...

@Gale: Tried, located the necessary libraries, didn't help. Please be specific. Do you mean Audacity does not detect any FFmpeg libraries, or that you can use FFmpeg to import MP3 and it still crashes? If so, are you sure you are using File > Import > Audio and selecting the "FFmpeg-compatible ...

You need Audacity 1.3.13 and FFmpeg.
See here: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 90#p145287

... 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

I'm curious: Why are you recording in such low quality? After exporting (saving) it as a .m4a file (after downloading ffmpeg library), I tried to open that file. But it does not open and the error comes as - "File may be invalid or corrupted". What "Options" did ...