Audacity Forum

... -- it seems when I was set up with admin privileges, not all admin priveleges are created equal! ;) I did not have the privilege to install the FFmpeg into the necessary root folders. Once that was corrected, I ran a script file to delete the old installations, then re-installed the FFmpeg, ...

Do you have any other versions of FFMpeg on the i-Macs?

Wow -- quick response, with something not yet suggested -- I'M IMPRESSED! Unfortunately, it did not fix the problem. I did notice it deleted the dylib files I loaded in another folder to find them easily, but Audacity could not find them before or after I reloaded them. I tried verifying & repai...

Please note that Audacity doesn't officially support latest svn FFmpeg, only 0.5.x. I only have one .APE File to hand but it imports fine using FFmpeg 0.5.x on Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.04. I suggest you convert the .APE at the command line in svn FFmpeg ...

FFMpeg does not work with Audacity 1.2 FFMpeg provides encoding/decoding of many audio file formats that would otherwise not be available in Audacity (such as .wma) To use FFMpeg in Audacity you will need to upgrade to Audacity ...

... track to a song, recorded on another device, and .wma is how my computer wants to classify it. So, Audacity won't let me open it. I downloaded ffmpeg, which I'm not certain what that it, and it still won't import. :( Please help? Also, everything I have found on this forum is in terms I don't ...

... container including MP3, but don't expect that as many people will be able to play it as a native MP3. If you want to put MP3 in a WAV, install FFmpeg , choose "Custom FFmpeg Export" then click "Options". By no means all the possible choices will work but libmp3lame codec ...

<<<my laptop running the exact same OSX, using the same downloads, the same procedure, the same links? >>>

You forgot The Same Permissions.

Go > Utilities > Disk Utilities > Verify Disk and Repair Permissions.

Koz

... with OSX 10.6.4 and a MacPro laptop. I have sucessfully loaded all on the laptop, but using the same procedure, cannot get the i-Macs to find the FFmpeg library, even after loading it in a sub-directory of the application. I can now browse to the file, see the file, check the spelling of the file ...

Please note that Audacity doesn't officially support latest svn FFmpeg, only 0.5.x. I only have one .APE File to hand but it imports fine using FFmpeg 0.5.x on Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.04. I suggest you convert the .APE at the command line in svn FFmpeg and ...