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Here is the original .cfg from the v2.2.2 on the Windows 7 machine... I must apologize, there IS a reference to FFmpeg in there, I must have fat fingered something in the search. Let me know if there is anything else I can provide.

... same wxwidget popups when launching Audacity 2.3.3. Here is what I observed up until it started working: 1) The W7 with Audacity 2.2.2 had NO FFmpeg installed at all, just LAME 3.99.3. No issues. 2) Installed 2.2.2 on W10 and overlaid relevant info in audacity.cfg and brought over the entire ...

... You can use Media Info On-Line to discover what it really is. https://mediaarea.net/MediaInfoOnline I think it still works that you can install FFMpeg into your Audacity to open up many different file types. https://www.audacityteam.org/download/windows/ Koz

Fact is, you don't have to copy avformat-55.dll into the program folder, but ALL THE FILES contained in the ffmpeg zip file (that's embarassing), but that is mentioned NOWHERE (this makes me a little bit angry). I guess that when you viewed the page https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/installing_and_updating_audacity_on_windows.html#winff ...

... stupid as well as a little bit angry. Fact is, you don't have to copy avformat-55.dll into the program folder, but ALL THE FILES contained in the ffmpeg zip file (that's embarassing), but that is mentioned NOWHERE (this makes me a little bit angry). Anyway, thank you for your fast solution. And ...

The message says audacity did not recognize the file type That probably means that the ".aup" file is trash. try installing ffmpeg? Ignore that - That error message assumes that you are trying to open an audio file that it can't understand, when actually you are trying to open ...

... is still available. When I click to recover it I get an error message. The message says audacity did not recognize the file type, try installing ffmpeg? I tried this and it didn't work. Is there any way to recover this file?

Hi my name is George and I have a problem with Audacity who does not want to open the mp4 files, I installed Audacity after I installed the FFmpeg library and the MP3 library was already installed, for video details open the link below :

https://youtu.be/lh4r3L5bKgc

... Error: Couldn't find symbol 'AudacityModule' in a dynamic library (error 127: No se encontró el proceso especificado.) 08:07:55: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries... 08:07:55: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries from system paths. File name is 'avformat-55.dll'. 08:07:55: Looking up PATH environment ...

Thanks for the update haiichuu

I have added your comments about multiple FFmpeg installations to the bug thread : https://bugzilla.audacityteam.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2074

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