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... As an alternative, I tried dragging from Files and dropping into Audacity. Now Audacity says it can't recognize .flac files, and to try installing FFMpeg. I installed FFMpeg. No dice. I'm assuming I'm doing this all wrong. What's going on?

... move anything, didn't touch anything. I selected to treat the missing files as silence (this session only). I already downloaded and replaced the ffmpeg .dll codec just in case, but it isn't working. What can I do? Here's my log: 19:02:30: Audacity 2.3.0 19:02:30: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries... ...

xanda wrote: ↑

Sat Apr 18, 2020 5:15 pm

use export using (external program)

Thanking you Sir!

We never noticed this in the drop-down list and it works a treat.

Glad it worked for you - and thanks for reporting back

Peter.

Mr..Bee wrote: ↑

Sun Apr 19, 2020 8:14 am

On download and extraction and installation of Lame... There is no accompanying avformat-55.dll file. So there is an issue!

avformat-55.dll has nothing to do with LAME.
avformat-55.dll is part of FFmpeg.

use export using (external program)

Thanking you Sir!

We never noticed this in the drop-down list and it works a treat.

If there were some thumbs-up smilies then you'd have a pair for sure.

You can always use whatever version of FFmpeg you want and then use export using (external program)

I know this (mostly) works as I have been QA testing it for some recent bug-fixes.

WC

We have the same request because the current supported library means having to maintain two versions of ffmpeg. Assuming the trouble isn't enormous, would it perhaps be a good idea to add the option of using a non-approved library, with the caveat that users do so at their ...

My guess is those are not "regular" WAV or MP3 files. If it's a different format you may have to install the FFmpeg Import/Export Library . (Download and run ffmpeg-win-2.2.2.exe ) I assume they play OK in Windows Media Player? Did you try opening some other known-good WAV ...

Have you tried following the instructions on this page: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/ins ... r_mac.html ?

-- Bill

Mac OS X 10.15.4 Audacity 2.3.3

I want to open a .m4a file in audacity but audacity can't find the ffmpeg-4.2.2 which is also in my application folder.