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Does that open in your Audacity? If not, you have the wrong FFMpeg.

Koz

https://lame.buanzo.org/#lameosx64bitdl 64-bit Libraries. Did you allow your Mac to hide filename extensions? That's probably a bad idea when you're having troubles. This may look different on yours. Screen Shot 2019-09-11 at 5.41.22.png Where did you get your sound files from and do they actually h...

I confirm the ffmpeg is correct and mounted

How? There are two different FFMpegs now. One for 32-bit and one for 64-bit. It's possible you carefully mounted the wrong one. Checking.

Koz

... solve this issue. I tried all the instructions twice just to make sure, but can't seem to figure out where it went wrong: Even when I confirm the ffmpeg is correct and mounted, I get a scrambled screeching sound for every mp4 I try to import. Sample attached. I viewed the Diagnostics>show log ...

... problem is with MY computer not YOUR software huh? Strange how my computer runs every single program, including multiple audio related ones (inc. ffmpeg) without ANY ERRORS WHATSOEVER but, of course, this is NOT an audacity problem, oh no. Audacity works fine and EVERY OTHER program on my computer ...

waxcylinder wrote: ↑

Sun Sep 08, 2019 10:20 am

dan74 wrote: ↑

Sat Sep 07, 2019 5:58 pm

it works ok now but on ogg and m4a files it ask me for FFMpeg to install, do I have to install it or not? thank you

Yes (certainly for M4A, - this page in the Manual will help you:
https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/ins ... html#winff

WC

Ok, thank you

dan74 wrote: ↑

Sat Sep 07, 2019 5:58 pm

it works ok now but on ogg and m4a files it ask me for FFMpeg to install, do I have to install it or not? thank you

Yes (certainly for M4A, - this page in the Manual will help you:
https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/ins ... html#winff

WC

steve wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 05, 2019 8:52 am

Try the vc_redist.x86.exe version from here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/hel ... -downloads

it works ok now but on ogg and m4a files it ask me for FFMpeg to install, do I have to install it or not? thank you

... Couldn't find symbol 'AudacityModule' in a dynamic library (error 127: The specified procedure could not be found.) 21:52:30: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries... 21:52:30: mLibAVFormatPath ('D:\ffmpeg-win-2.2.2\avformat-55.dll') is not empty. Loading from it. 21:52:30: Looking up PATH environment ...

GeeVoice wrote: ↑

Tue Sep 03, 2019 1:03 am

... a message saying there were no files where there clearly was files.

You may have to install something called FFmpeg into Audacity for it to play (& see) certain audio file types, see ...
https ://manual.audacityteam.org/man/installing_and_updating_audacity_on_windows.html#winff