importing mp3 fille error which can play on windows media player

[jademan]

This is likely Audacity’s fault:

Audacity 2.4.2 is very fussy about MP3s. They have to strictly conform to the MP3 standard, otherwise Audacity will refuse to import them. This increased strictness was to fix a problem with non-standard files being misidentified. The next version of Audacity will be less strict / more forgiving about MP3s, so we should see a lot less problems of this sort.

If you only have the issue with a few or several files, try DVDdoug’s suggestion:

You can try converting the file to WAV with TAudioConverter or you can try repairing the MP3 with MP3 Diags.

if this becomes a serious problem, try steve’s solution here:

MP3 Decoding failed: Lost sychronization

Try this: If you don’t already have “FFmpeg for Audacity” installed, follow the instructions here to install it: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/installing_ffmpeg_for_windows.html Then in “Edit menu > Preferences > Import / Export > Extended Import Preferences” Click the “Add new rule” button, and name the new rule: *.mp3 Then in the right hand column, move “FFmpeg-compatible files” to the top, like this (below), and then click the “OK” button. The drawback of this method is that …

I hope this helps!