Audacity Forum

Awesome! Thanks a lot!

The webpage is back online.

There looks to be a temporary error. Give it a couple of hours and try again - if still no joy, try again tomorrow.
In the meantime, I'll try and find out what the problem is.

... forum, I'm running Audacity 2.3.3 on windows 10 and I am trying to edit audio files on mp4. videos. It says I need to download a library called FFmpeg. When I go to this official audacity instructional page: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/installing_ffmpeg_for_windows.html To install it ...

... performance is not 10:1 but 15:1, in favour of Windows. The big difference is between the source code for the Windows and Linux versions of ffmpeg (I am not able to tell what versions they are) From al that you have told me I conclude that the majority of the 'work' to be done in this encoding ...

... doing. after all both versions of Audacity have a common source code and 'see' the same data- surely ? Not for AAC export. This export format uses FFmpeg, which is an optional download for Windows, and is supplied by the Linux distribution for Linux. As described here https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Encode/AAC ...

see https://www.masteringthemix.com/blogs/learn/what-eq-filter-is-best-for-bass-and-low-end https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-all.html#firequalizer for boosting low frequencies the current linear-phase might introduce audiable ringing temperal artifacts add option for minimum-phase ...

... for exporting to MP3 so it's unrelated to your problem, and LAME is now built-into Audacity. For various other formats you may need the optional FFMPEG library.

... the best I could. The directions are flimsy. I downloaded the correct updated version of LAME, and the /Library/Application Support/audacity/libs/ffmpeg.55.64bit.dylib. The cassette's built-in mic will record, but the built-in Input does not show any signal at all. I have spent hours fooling around ...

... Audacity 2.3.3, "Mod Script Pipe" should be considered to be a standard part of an Audacity release, rather than as an optional extra. FFmpeg support should also be enabled if available in the distribution. Note that only the current release version of the manual is available on-line. ...