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Steve_Col wrote:locate "C:Program FilesFFmpeg for Audacityavformat-52.dll"

Does it "find" FFmpeg?

Moved for you as requested. WC

Oh _ at 1st I never saw the other "1.3 + forum
is there any way an "Admin" could move this thread to the correct area?

[quote="steve"]You've posted in the Audacity 1.2 part of the forum. Which version of Audacity are you using? I got "version 1.3.12-beta" SO odd - I have messed with the "Edit" preferences... locate "C:Program FilesFFmpeg for Audacityavformat-52.dll" then , ran...

... why Audacity "forgot". Audacity saves the Preferences when the session is closed. If Audacity has not been closed since you first set up FFmpeg, then the setting of where FFmpeg is located would never have been saved.

... me thinking and I found the problem. I have Windows XP. I went into the menu -> edit - preferences and noticed Audacity said it could not find the FFmpeg Library. I then clicked Locate and it found it and everything works OK again. Therefore the problem was it forgot where the FFmpeg Library was at.

As a baby step, I would probably uninstall FFMpeg and pull down and install it fresh. http://audacityteam.org/download/ Then, when that doesn't work, I would probably trash the Audacity Preferences file and make Audacity start over from First ...

I installed Audacity 1.3 Beta. I then installed the LAME and FFMpeg stuff. Everything worked fine for a couple weeks. I would open mp4 files then do some editing then save it as mp3 files. I then copied the mp3's to my portable mp3 player and listened ...

... Audacity 1.2 is really old and hasn't been updated, patched, or corrected in a very long time. Be sure and get the lame and FFMpeg from the same place you get the program. They're not all the same. Koz

... some app that will decode wma's and encode ogg vorbis. You can achieve this in many ways. Some apps will be able to do this in one step (I think ffmpeg can read from wma and write to ogg vorbis). You can also do it in two steps: first convert from wma to wav (for example with mplayer) and then ...