Audacity Forum

... Files)". When a file size appears to right of the file name under "Output Status", you're done. Or use Audacity Beta 1.3.7 and add the optional FFmpeg library to your computer. Then click File > import > Audio, choose "FFmpeg-compatible files" in the "Files of type" dropdown, select the file ...

... to uninstall an old 1.3 before installing a new 1.3. To be absolutely safe, delete the application itself, the preferences file, and your LAME and ffmpeg libraries before installing 1.3.7. --Allen

Audacity 1.2.x does not support ffmpeg.

I have downloaded the Lame, as well as the FFmpeg and I have implemented both, however I am still unable to import music and it comes up with an FF error. I have been able to import things under raw data, but all i get is static. Says it recognized ...

<<<Surely I can keep the LAME and ffmpeg libraries?>>>

Only if they're appropriate to the target version, keeping in mind there was a grand shift in the lame configurations recently, like handful of weeks ago.

"And don't call me Shirley." [Leslie Nielsen, Airplane, 1980]

Koz

... files on upgrading, maybe that's the culprit. And by "all support files", you don't really mean all, do you? Surely I can keep the LAME and ffmpeg libraries? Thanks, Allen

... "PCM WAV" file. You should be able to import it into Audacity if you use the latest 1.3 beta version, but you will probably also need to have FFMPEG correctly installed. See Here: http://www.audacityteam.org/manual/index.php?title=FAQ:Installation_and_Plug-Ins#installffmpeg

Hi KOZ,

THANKS!

G!

... is why you buy Easy CD Creator or another stand-alone music authoring program. You also need to be careful not to step into The Compression Wars. "FFMPEG produces a much better MP3 than lame." "No it doesn't..." <<<PCM (which I assume it is a WMA Lossless because of it's Bitrate)>>> Audacity has ...

... to that drop-down menu in the import dialog was to gray out different files in the display. The AAC files come in at 16 bit whether I use the ffmpeg filter or Quicktime filter (there's no explicit AAC filter). But now I see that if I import a 16-bit WAV with the ffmpeg filter, it comes in ...