Audacity Forum

.CWP files are not supported by FFMpeg.
These are "Cakewalk Project" files, and as far as I'm aware they are only supported by Cakewalk/Sonar products.

If you have installed ffmpeg correctly, then when you click Edit > Preferences > Libraries, you will see the ffmpeg library version number in the preferences window. Having said that, I'm not sure whether .cwp is supported. It doesn't ...

I have lost access to my SONAR program because I can't migrate it to my new computer. I want to switch to Audacity but it doesn't seem that FFmpeg has .cwp support. Or else I am not using FFmpeg right. My understanding is that you just download it, tell Audacity where the 'library' is, Done ...

stevethefiddle wrote:I've just used the FFmpeg installer from the link on this page and it works: http://manual.audacityteam.org/index.ph ... tallffmpeg

I did that and no cigar for ffmpeg

... though it is not uncommon for people to post in the wrong place. I think you will be in luck. I've just tried exporting from Audacity (using FFMpeg) as 4 bit adpcm-ima-wav and it appears to work. Another option is SOX http://sox.sourceforge.net/Docs/Features It's a command line program, but ...

... which reminded me I'd made a post. My version of Audacity is 1.3.9 downloaded via apt-get. I'll try 1.3.11/ latest version. I'm sure I have FFMpeg installed. I've been trying various Linux distros for a couple of years. I actually started with Ubuntu and seem to have come full-circle and ...

It's a bit of a pain for us Linux users - you need to use a VERY up to date version of FFMPEG.
Try using a subversion snapshot from here: http://ffmpeg.org/download.html

(I'm currently using 52.36)

... http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Lame_Installation Support for additional file types may be added to Audacity 1.3.x (NOT 1.2.x) by installing FFMPEG. http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/FFmpeg

... by Audacity. If you use a format converter program to convert it to WAV format it will play correctly. If you use Audacity 1.3 you can install FFMpeg which enables Audacity to support several additional file formats. See here: http://manual.audacityteam.org/index.php?title=FAQ:Installation_and_Plug-Ins#installffmpeg

... whole program to crash when the preferences are accessed in this case. I plugged in a mic and preferences showed up fine allowing me to install ffmpeg support. I found through trial and error that in Windows 7 x86 I hyad to plugin a mic in order to keep Audacity v1.3.9 Unicode from crashing ...