Audacity Forum

... to then try to find another app that might work or wait till your preferred app is updated to work around the Youtube changes. I'd forgotten about FFMPEG in the background and have only a vague idea of what it does.

... open? WAV, AIFF, MP3 (import), OGG and FLAC are handled natively by Audacity. Other formats (such as WMA, AVI, MP4, MOV, and FLV) are handled by FFMPEG. FFMPEG is a separate project from Audacity (the download links on the Audacity website are just for your convenience). Which formats are supported, ...

... going through the whole process again with "Edit menu > Preferences > File Formats > Change Uncompressed Format > WAV". If you have FFMpeg installed, Audacity 1.3.12 now supports dozens of file formats - it would be impractical to have a separate menu item in the File menu for each ...

... it would :) I also successfully downloaded the new lame encoder, so now under preferences it now says MP3 Library Version: LAME 3.98.2, and also FFmpeg Library Version F(52.36.0),C(52.32.0),U(50.3.0) So does all that seem fine to you? Yes. I would dearly like to un-install the 1.2.6 version now, ...

... problem. I also successfully downloaded the new lame encoder, so now under preferences it now says MP3 Library Version: LAME 3.98.2 , and also FFmpeg Library Version F(52.36.0),C(52.32.0),U(50.3.0) So does all that seem fine to you? I would dearly like to un-install the 1.2.6 version now, would ...

I had the same problem and the solution turned out to be quite simple. The error message appeared to imply that the FFmpeg library was installed and could not decode the file, but actually FFmpeg was not installed. I installed the FFmpeg package, went (in Audacity) to Edit > Preferences ...

... (an alias) libavutil.50.dylib libavutil.dylib (an alias) libmp3lame.dylib So it looks like libspeex is not included on Mac? I've run the standard ffMPEG installer. It seems not. Libspeex is under the modified BSD licence, so is GPL-compatible. I note also Mac does not have libfaac/libfaad which ...

In /usr/lib/local/audacity/ I find:

libavcodec.52.dylib
libavcodec.dylib (an alias)
libavformat.52.dylib
libavformat.dylib (an alias)
libavutil.50.dylib
libavutil.dylib (an alias)
libmp3lame.dylib

So it looks like libspeex is not included on Mac? I've run the standard ffMPEG installer.

-- Bill

Gale Andrews wrote:Does the Mac FFmpeg installer include libspeex?

I have no idea... I'll check that next week when I get back from camping.

... support for it. This was supposed to be quite close five years ago . To be accurate, .spx files can be imported into 1.3.12 on Windows by adding FFmpeg , courtesy of the included libspeex-1.dll. But FFmpeg still seems to lack Speex encoding. Does the Mac FFmpeg installer include libspeex? Gale