2.3.2 Audacity crashing when attempting to change paramiters for Equalization Paramaters

Audacity Help Forum Windows
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As the title says, every time I try to change the Equalization parameters Audacity crashes and gives me a debug menu.

The log is as follows:

07:04:10: Audacity 2.3.2
07:04:10: Error: Couldn’t find symbol ‘AudacityModule’ in a dynamic library (error 127: The specified procedure could not be found.)
07:04:12: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries…
07:04:12: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries from system paths. File name is ‘avformat-55.dll’.
07:04:12: Looking up PATH environment variable…
07:04:12: PATH = ‘C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Oracle\Java\javapath;C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\iCLS Client;C:\Program Files\Intel\iCLS Client;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\WINDOWS\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0;C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\Intel(R) Management Engine Components\DAL;C:\Program Files\Intel\Intel(R) Management Engine Components\DAL;C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\Intel(R) Management Engine Components\IPT;C:\Program Files\Intel\Intel(R) Management Engine Components\IPT;C:\WINDOWS\System32\OpenSSH;C:\Users\7jkmu\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps;’
07:04:12: Checking that ‘’ is in PATH…
07:04:12: FFmpeg directory is in PATH.
07:04:12: Checking for monolithic avformat from ‘avformat-55.dll’.
07:04:12: Error: Failed to load shared library ‘avformat-55.dll’ (error 126: The specified module could not be found.)
07:04:12: Loading avutil from ‘’.
07:04:12: Error: Failed to load shared library ‘.dll’ (error 126: The specified module could not be found.)
07:04:12: Loading avcodec from ‘’.
07:04:12: Error: Failed to load shared library ‘.dll’ (error 126: The specified module could not be found.)
07:04:12: Loading avformat from ‘avformat-55.dll’.
07:04:12: Error: Failed to load shared library ‘avformat-55.dll’ (error 126: The specified module could not be found.)
07:04:12: Error: Failed to load FFmpeg libraries.
07:04:12: Error: Failed to find compatible FFmpeg libraries.

Any idea as to what might be going on? This is from a fresh install of version 2.3.2, after the November Windows 2019 Update

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Is this specific to using Equalization in a Macro?

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This is a P1 bug that we fixed for the upcoming 2.3.3

https://bugzilla.audacityteam.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2112
Crash when opening Equalization settings in a Macro

Peter.

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Good to know, thank you!

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It is. Every time I open up the Macros, go into Equalization and try to click “Edit Parameters”, the program just opens up a debug screen saying that it crashed.

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The workaround is to make the Eq settings before you open the Macro Manager, and save the settings as a preset. Then open the Macro Manager and add the Equalization effect (no need to edit it’s parameters because they are already set).