First, Audacity works great. But I am trying to import mp4 and need the ffmpeg libraries.
I installed the recommended version of FFmpeg for my OS and for Audacity 3.2 and higher, according to the link https://lame.buanzo.org/ffmpeg.php.
FFmpeg_5.0.0_for_Audacity_on_macOS.pkg
The installer seems to work but half of the libs are aliases… anyway same problems as reported by others.
But Audacity 3.7.1 is just blind to them. I manually link them and Audacity 3.7.1 is “FFmpeg library not found.”
I don’t want to “compile” something. Is there a link to just get the correct version?
I had to download the zip file for ver 6 and that worked. The site that Audacity links to for downloading is so spammy that quoting the link got my replies stuck in Audacity’s spam filter. Go figure.
Forum messages which contain links are sometimes held for moderation to avoid spam messages. This has - to my experience - nothing to do with the link itself. Even links to the Audacity site I included were held for moderation in the past (and later released by some moderator).
And no, I did so far not encounter any “spammy” site.
It took me like an hour to finally find what I needed and I was afraid to click anything. This is site that Audacity recommends lame[dot]buanzo[dot]org (and I still get an error from this message saying “An error occurred: Sorry you cannot post a link to that host.”
The site lame.buanzo.org is not a “spammy” site. It is a site looking like one of the very first websites, no images, only text. -no idea why you should get your error message - I did not.
The very first line of text on buanzo warns the user not to click green buttons because they are malware. But they advertise blue download buttons in random areas of the page, which as also malware.