Audacity Forum

I would think they will get round fairly soon then to requiring root permission for /usr/local/lib. So if you're resigned to moving the libs I'd say go for ~/Library/Application Support/audacity or /Applications/Audacity_Libraries or similar. /Applications/Audacity_Libraries would be an odd thing t...

I would think they will get round fairly soon then to requiring root permission for /usr/local/lib. So if you're resigned to moving the libs I'd say go for ~/Library/Application Support/audacity or /Applications/Audacity_Libraries or similar. /Applications/Audacity_Libraries would be an odd thing t...

... or similar. Sounds good. This would be a good time to do it anyway if the supplied installers are going to be a newer version of FFmpeg. Sort of like it was planned that way. ;-) I'll update the installer and add the new path to the search list. I'll have to leave the old one ...

Now they're going to do some more in Lion: http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/03/31/mac_os_x_10_7_lion_sets_finds_corrects_insecure_folder_permissions.html I would think they will get round fairly soon then to requiring root permission for /usr/local/lib. So if you're resigned to moving the li...

Do you have FFMpeg installed and does your machine recognize it? In the case of Audacity 1.3, you have to get the specific FFMpeg from the same web site that was designed for it. You can't use the old FFMpeg software.

Koz

... but a popup appears telling me: "Audacity recognizes the type of the file "D:.... Importers supposedly supporting such files are: FFmpeg-compatible files but none of them understood this file format." Hmm, when I drag the save *.avi onto v1.2.6 everything works fine. Why? ...

... 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.

You need Audacity 1.3: http://audacityteam.org/download/
and FFMpeg: http://manual.audacityteam.org/index.ph ... tallffmpeg

I Vista U. first used "audacity-win-1.2.6", this version doesn't ask for the FFmpeg library, Audacity 1.2.6 cannot use FFmpeg, so it is limited to WAV, AIFF, FLAC, OGG and MP3 formats only. Also, Audacity 1.2.6 is not recommended for Vista as it has multiple ...

... tried many things to get this to work, nothing has yet. I Vista U. first used "audacity-win-1.2.6", this version doesn't ask for the FFmpeg library, then I installed the "Audacity 1.3.4 (Beta)" which did ask for both. I got the "Lame" to be found automaticly, the ...