windows 7 x64, audacity 2.0.5:
Hello & Thanks,
Longterm goal: cut out vocal on a music file , or capture out guitar part .
Problem:
I have a *.mp4 file.
And used VLC player to capture audio into a *.wav file .
The *.wav file plays fine in vlc and windowsMediaPlayer, but Audacity flags it as :
“did not recognize type of file” WillCircleUnbroken-StapleSingers-VLC-01.wav
Pls, how can I fix this ?
Or is there a better freeware-video-to-audio program ?
Thanks…Vernon
Just because it says it’s a WAV file…
You can add FFMpeg software to Audacity and it will open up a great many more file types than Audacity will on its own. Scroll down.
http://audacityteam.org/download/windows
Koz
Did you set Windows to show you filename extensions? If you didn’t, it’s possible what you really have is WillCircleUnbroken-StapleSingers-VLC-01.wav.m4a, and Windows is hiding the .m4a part.
Koz
I was able to create an *.mp3 and a *.wav file from the speaker playback of the *.mp4 .
manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tutorial_recording_audio_playing_on_the_computer.html
The input settings that worked for me are:
[Windows WASAPI] [speakers high def] [speakers high def] [2 stereo input]
Before I could [Export] to mp3 I needed to download and install :
lame_enc.dll
and
FFmpeg_v0.6.2_for_Audacity_on_Windows.zip
Thanks All…vm
You only needed LAME to export as MP3.
But if you had FFmpeg you could have imported the MP4 instead of record it.
Gale