Importing Error

Audacity 3 Help Forum Windows
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I have downloaded a voicemail from my Android phone to my PC, and when trying to listen to it, I receive a ‘Error Importing’ message saying that Audacity (Version 2.1) “didn’t recognize the type of file (.qcp) and if uncompressed, try importing it using ‘Import Raw’”. Unfortunately, I can’t retreive the original file to import it raw, b/c it was converted to the .qcp file and now resides on my desktop with the same Error Importing message every time I try opening it.

Any help would be most appreciated.

Thanks so much.

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The .qcp file is probably a “PureVoice” file, which is a proprietary format of http://www.qualcomm.com/ and is probably not supported by Audacity.

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Audacity should import QCP if you add the optional FFmpeg library to your computer.

Audacity can’t write QCP files but the Ringtones Tutorial in the Audacity Manual lists a free conversion tool for converting from 8000 Hz 16-bit mono WAV to QCP and vice-versa. So you could use that tool to convert the QCP to WAV instead of using FFmpeg.


Gale