Cannot get viable source code for latest 3.7 release

Programming and Development Compiling Audacity
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I have been using 3.7.0 compiled for ASIO inclusion and it works OK. But neither 3.7.1 or 3.7.2, which compile correctly, actually have ffmpeg working so I can’t open file types such as mp3 etc. The ffmpeg elements appear to be present in the build but just don’t work as expected.
If I use git to download 3.7.2 it actually still says 3.7.1 in the help - about dialogue. Source download using --branch release-3.7.2 doesn’t actually download the release version but an alpha build.

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Whether something is a release or alpha build depends on the cmake config. Haven’t built Audacity 3 in a while, but I believe it’s BUILD_LEVEL and RELEASE_TYPE

Also when compiling Audacity make sure you build the ALL_BUILD target, not just audacity - otherwise the mod-ffmpeg library never gets compiled.

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Thanks. You have put me on the right track to get this working.

  1. Change Audacity build level to 2 ( defaulted to 0) in Cmake Gui. This changed the “about” reference to 3.1 ( 3.2 was downloaded but I could easily change that at source level if it mattered).

  2. Completely rebuild the solution in Visual Study before the final build to get ffmpeg module compiled and working.

Much obliged.