I installed the latest version, everything was fine until i try to launch it. It says some file is missing and try to reinstall. I did several times with the same result. Help? Im using windows 7
What is the error message?
If it is “api-ms-win-crt-runtime-1-1-0.dll was not found”, then you need to update Windows “Visual C++ redistributable”.
You can get the updatet from Microsoft here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-ie/download/details.aspx?id=48145
Download the "Visual C++ Redistributable"installer and run it. You may need to reboot the computer after installing.
I installed audacity 2.3.2 on windows 8.1 and received the same message, I did as you said but still receiving the message even when installed Visual C++ 2015 from this link and 2019 from microsoft too
Try the vc_redist.x86.exe version from here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2977003/the-latest-supported-visual-c-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
Yes (certainly for M4A, - this page in the Manual will help you:
https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/installing_and_updating_audacity_on_windows.html#winff
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Ok, thank you