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Hello, Making the jump to audacity from other sw. Not a newbie, already scoured the forum... Mac 0s 10.12.6 New Install AUD 2.3.3 New install FFMpeg and Lamel When I go to save a project, I get this: ""Save Project" is for an Audacity project, not an audio file. For an audio file ...

... configuration folder which is in: Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Audacity\ where <username> is your log-in name. If you installed LAME and / or FFmpeg, they can also be deleted from the Programs folder.

OS: Windows 10 ver 1903 Audacity: ver 2.3.3 I have the ffmpeg plug in so Audacity should be able to read .wv files however, when I import them in the resulting file is empty. I tried this with multiple files with same result. As a further test I imported ...

... 00:18:04: Warning: Cannot set locale to language "English". 00:18:04: Error: locale 'en_GB' cannot be set. 00:18:09: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries... 00:18:09: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries from system paths. File name is 'libavformat.so.58'. 00:18:09: Checking for monolithic ...

... Couldn't find symbol 'AudacityModule' in a dynamic library (error 127: The specified procedure could not be found.) 10:55:41: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries... 10:55:41: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries from system paths. File name is 'avformat-55.dll'. 10:55:41: Looking up PATH environment ...

... "fine"? I put it into audacity How did you do that? Did you "Import" it via Audacity's "File" menu? Do you have FFmpeg for Audacity installed?

... 2) If yes, open it. 3) If not a valid .aup, try to import it as an audio file. 4) If can't be imported with built-in importers, try importing with FFmpeg 5) If can't be imported with FFmpeg, perhaps FFmpeg is not available. Step 5 is a bit iffy. It would be better if it checked to see if FFmpeg ...

... where the header is converted to audio. You can trim that out once the file is open in Audacity. (Please note that I have not installed the FFmpeg Import/Export Library yet, thinking it useless.) Right. If the audio is uncompressed FFmpeg won't help. The recording parameters had been mistakenly ...

... in all cases I obtained a saturated waveform. What can I do in order to open and edit this file? (Please note that I have not installed the FFmpeg Import/Export Library yet, thinking it useless.) The audio file is fine (DVBViewer can play it completely.) Thank you for your help. Regards.

I had this problem after my initial install of the 64-bit version, including FFmpeg, on Catalina. The files sounded fine using other software. I “reset my preferences” (aka deleted the cfg file) and everything sounded normal again. https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/installing_and_updating_audacity_on_mac_os_x.html