Missing "Use Custom Mix" Option

Audacity Help Forum Windows
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I’ve searched high and low for this, and I cannot find ANYWHERE, on how to get the “use custom mix (for example to export a 5.1 multichannel file)” option to appear on Audacity. I do have surround system built in my computer, I do have Dolby 5.1 Surround System drivers, and YET it doesn’t appear. I have LAME built in as well as the FFMPEG set-up, and the latest 3.0.0 Audacity.

I just wanted to try and separate music from dialogue on a certain scene of mine or at least TRY to do that, but I can’t even find a program that has this capability, and when I realized Audacity has surround system editing capabilities, I thought “oh maybe this might work” nope, it hasn’t, because I don’t have the option listed on Audacity.

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[u]Edit > Preferences > Import Export[/u]

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Did you even listen to the damned post?! I said I tried that already! It didn’t show up!

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Please tell us EXACTLY what you are doing, step-by-step, and where you run into a problem. What format are you exporting to? (WAV? MP3? etc?).

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Hi guys.

Using Win10 and Audacity 3.0.3 but I also am struggling to get the “Use Custom Mix” and" Surround 5.1 option to show. I installed the appropriate FFmpeg library but can’t seem to get anywhere. Can anyone help me please?

Many thanks

AiTE

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Audacity does not have “Surround 5.1” option. What it has is the ability to export multi-channel audio files.
Note that the number of supported channels depends on the file format.

To enable the option, enable “Use Advanced Mixing Options:” in “Preferences > Import / Export”.
See: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/import_export_preferences.html
and https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/advanced_mixing_options.html