Audacity Forum

... track: 2 date: 2007 encoder: iTunes 9.0.1.8 ========================================================================== Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 1060.8 kbit/75.17% (ratio: 132603->176400) Selected audio codec: [ffalac] afm: ...

... rien sur votre matériel, ni la version d'Audacity que vous utilisez. Avec les versions 1.3.x d'Audacity, le téléchargement de la librairie FFMPEG permet d'importer directement des fichiers audio au format wma. Si vous ne disposez que d'une version antérieure, la solution que vous avez adoptée ...

Hi Koz,
Sorry for the delay in replying.
Yes, I tried that first, but it didn't work. It does seem that you do have to do quite a bit of work to get them up and running.

... the links in your post. The website for SUPER is erightsoft.com and not svcd2dvd.com [Update: Links have not been corrected so I've removed them] FFMpeg should be able to import Vob files unless the DVD is copy protected. If the DVD is copy protected then you would need to remove the copy protection ...

... from the dvd, Audacity said it didn't recognize the file and to try importing as raw. My system is Windows 7 (64-bit) and I have installed ffmpeg and lame. Are such dvd's generally copy-protected and the reason for my problem?

... software packages to handle compressed formats like Windows Media, Apple Advanced Compressed and even good old MP3. That would be the lame and FFMpeg packages from the same web site. There's no choice. You have the additional problems of Copy Protected Music Files which will refuse to open ...

... You can install both versions, but only use one at a time. Audacity 1.3 Projects will not open in 1.2 If you use Lame and FFMpeg, get those from the same place. Don't use older ones or ones from other web sites. Koz

You do have FFMpeg, right? That's the only way Audacity can deal with AAC sound files. What do you mean it didn't work? The out-of-the-box Normalize tries to set sound values to "0" (really loud). If you try to Normalize ...

... message which says that Audacity recognizes the type of file I am importing and that Importers supposedly supporting such files are MP3 files and FFmpeg-compatible files. However, it states, none of these importers understood this file format. I have tried to import my mp3 file multiple times ...

... low level and normalize did a great job (Thanks Dominic Mazzoni !). No problem at all with normalize and mp3's. Where the trouble come from: AAC, FFMPEG ? Thank you for your time.