Hi, I have a problem with using Spitfish in Audacity. I copied it into Plug-Ins folder for Audacity and in Audacity I turned on VST effect but it still shows this when I want to use Spitfish. Thank you for your help.
0:34:10: Audacity 3.0.0
0:34:10: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries…
0:34:10: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries from system paths. File name is ‘avformat-55.dll’.
0:34:10: Looking up PATH environment variable…
0:34:10: PATH = ‘C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\WINDOWS\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0;C:\WINDOWS\System32\OpenSSH;C:\Users\Iveta\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps;’
0:34:10: Temporarily prepending ‘;’ to PATH…
0:34:10: Checking for monolithic avformat from ‘avformat-55.dll’.
0:34:10: Error: Failed to load shared library ‘avformat-55.dll’ (error 126: The specified module could not be found.)
0:34:10: Loading avutil from ‘’.
0:34:10: Error: Failed to load shared library ‘.dll’ (error 126: The specified module could not be found.)
0:34:10: Loading avcodec from ‘’.
0:34:10: Error: Failed to load shared library ‘.dll’ (error 126: The specified module could not be found.)
0:34:10: Loading avformat from ‘avformat-55.dll’.
0:34:10: Error: Failed to load shared library ‘avformat-55.dll’ (error 126: The specified module could not be found.)
0:34:10: Error: Failed to load FFmpeg libraries.
0:34:10: Returning PATH to previous setting: C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\WINDOWS\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0;C:\WINDOWS\System32\OpenSSH;C:\Users\Iveta\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps;
0:34:10: Error: Failed to find compatible FFmpeg libraries.
0:35:57: Using internal LAME
0:37:04: Error: Failed to load shared library ‘C:\Program Files (x86)\Audacity\plug-ins\sc4_1882.dll’ (error 126: The specified module could not be found.)
0:39:14: File name is C:\Users\Iveta\Downloads\IMG_2702.mp3
0:39:14: Mime type is *
0:39:14: Opening with libmad
0:39:14: Open(C:\Users\Iveta\Downloads\IMG_2702.mp3) succeeded
1:01:31: Using internal LAME
1:01:47: Error: Failed to load shared library ‘C:\Program Files (x86)\Audacity\plug-ins\sc4_1882.dll’ (error 126: The specified module could not be found.)
1:01:52: Error: Failed to load shared library ‘C:\Program Files (x86)\Audacity\plug-ins\sc4_1882.dll’ (error 126: The specified module could not be found.)
1:01:54: Error: Failed to load shared library ‘C:\Program Files (x86)\Audacity\plug-ins\sc4_1882.dll’ (error 126: The specified module could not be found.)
1:01:55: Error: Failed to load shared library ‘C:\Program Files (x86)\Audacity\plug-ins\sc4_1882.dll’ (error 126: The specified module could not be found.)
1:01:58: Error: Failed to load shared library ‘C:\Program Files (x86)\Audacity\plug-ins\sc4_1882.dll’ (error 126: The specified module could not be found.)
1:01:59: Error: Failed to load shared library ‘C:\Program Files (x86)\Audacity\plug-ins\sc4_1882.dll’ (error 126: The specified module could not be found.)
1:01:59: Error: Failed to load shared library ‘C:\Program Files (x86)\Audacity\plug-ins\sc4_1882.dll’ (error 126: The specified module could not be found.)
1:01:59: Error: Failed to load shared library ‘C:\Program Files (x86)\Audacity\plug-ins\sc4_1882.dll’ (error 126: The specified module could not be found.)
1:02:03: Error: Failed to load shared library ‘C:\Program Files (x86)\Audacity\plug-ins\sc4_1882.dll’ (error 126: The specified module could not be found.)
1:02:33: Error: Failed to load shared library ‘C:\Program Files (x86)\Audacity\plug-ins\sc4_1882.dll’ (error 126: The specified module could not be found.)
1:07:57: Error: Failed to load shared library ‘C:\Program Files (x86)\Audacity\plug-ins\sc4_1882.dll’ (error 126: The specified module could not be found.)
1:08:24: Error: Failed to load shared library ‘C:\Program Files (x86)\Audacity\plug-ins\sc4_1882.dll’ (error 126: The specified module could not be found.)
1:08:26: Error: Failed to load shared library ‘C:\Program Files (x86)\Audacity\plug-ins\sc4_1882.dll’ (error 126: The specified module could not be found.)
1:08:29: Error: Failed to load shared library ‘C:\Program Files (x86)\Audacity\plug-ins\sc4_1882.dll’ (error 126: The specified module could not be found.)
1:08:30: Error: Failed to load shared library ‘C:\Program Files (x86)\Audacity\plug-ins\sc4_1882.dll’ (error 126: The specified module could not be found.)
1:08:32: Error: Failed to load shared library ‘C:\Program Files (x86)\Audacity\plug-ins\sc4_1882.dll’ (error 126: The specified module could not be found.)
1:08:33: Error: Failed to load shared library ‘C:\Program Files (x86)\Audacity\plug-ins\sc4_1882.dll’ (error 126: The specified module could not be found.)
1:08:33: Error: Failed to load shared library ‘C:\Program Files (x86)\Audacity\plug-ins\sc4_1882.dll’ (error 126: The specified module could not be found.)
1:08:33: Error: Failed to load shared library ‘C:\Program Files (x86)\Audacity\plug-ins\sc4_1882.dll’ (error 126: The specified module could not be found.)
1:08:34: Error: Failed to load shared library ‘C:\Program Files (x86)\Audacity\plug-ins\sc4_1882.dll’ (error 126: The specified module could not be found.)
1:08:34: Error: Failed to load shared library ‘C:\Program Files (x86)\Audacity\plug-ins\sc4_1882.dll’ (error 126: The specified module could not be found.)
1:08:34: Error: Failed to load shared library ‘C:\Program Files (x86)\Audacity\plug-ins\sc4_1882.dll’ (error 126: The specified module could not be found.)
That error is not related to Spitfish, but you can fix that by resetting your plug-ins. To do that:
- Ensure Audacity is not running
- In File Explorer, open the hidden folder: *C:\Users<username>\AppData\Roaming\audacity* (where “” is your user name)
- Delete the files:
pluginregistry.cfg
pluginsettings.cfg
Is the plug-in 32-bit or 64-bit?