Audacity Forum

Weird thing happened... So yesterday I deleted that ~ folder. Not at any time in the process I deleted the old 0.5.2 ffmpeg version. Today I started audacity and it failed to locate ffmpeg... I went to audacity download page and I downloaded ffmpeg 0.6.2 for mac again. I compared ...

@Bruno It would be interesting for you to try to install the latest FFmpeg libraries, then see if you can find and load them. I just tried it and it appears that the installer's default location is "/~/Library/Application Support/audacity". That ...

I downloaded the installer from audacity's download page and run it accepting all the defaults... Now I have a folder named '~' in my root... Sounds like a bug to me and one that should be fixed quickly...

I just tried it and it appears that the installer's default location is "/~/Library/Application Support/audacity". That is not a typo. That sounds like a bug... There shouldn't be a leading slash in the path... If ~ was still expanded that wouldn't be a problem, but with the leading / the...

@Bruno It would be interesting for you to try to install the latest FFmpeg libraries, then see if you can find and load them. I just tried it and it appears that the installer's default location is "/~/Library/Application Support/audacity". That ...

@Bruno/Bill, does the new FFmpeg 0.6.2 installer offer /Library/Application Support/audacity/libs ? I have a feeling we didn't change it this time around because we haven't updated the LAME installer which still uses /usr/local/lib. Gale: ...

Gale, I haven't "upgraded" ffmpeg libs yet... I'm still using 5.2, which is located in /usr/local/lib/

I think I haven't yet imported/exported anything in the Mac since I installed 1.3.13, but it still detects the ffmpeg libs successfully...

Shall I upgrade ffmpeg and lame?

@rezha. You can get the latest FFmpeg 0.6.2 as a zip and install it where you like. Not sure if you got 0.6.2 or not. The older FFmpeg 0.5 installer was called "FFmpeg_Libraries_for_Audacity_on_OSX.dmg". The newer FFmpeg is sometimes ...

... 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

... editor. Well... it work out-of-the-box with me... Maybe you can give us some more info about your system? OS-X version, Audacity version, Lame and FFMpeg versions, where you download it from...