Audacity Forum

How can this be fixed?

I'm using version 1.3 beta.

When I attempt to open the music file, I get the following message.

"Audacity recognized the type of the file 'C: blah blah blah blah' but was unable to import it."

There are two ways to capture sound that gives Audacity troubles. The fastest is use the download of Super or Switch to convert the work to something Audacity can handle -- generally WAV.

Or you can play the work and record it real time in Audacity. You can do that with a program like Total Recorder, or by messing with the Windows Control Panels. This is the What-U-Hear or Mix-Out technique written about here...

http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php? ... e_computer

Windows Media has two "problems." It's a proprietary format, so it's a little rough to deal with right there, and if you're trying to manage a copy protected song, you get to fight the security layer, too.

Koz

If you download and install the ffmpeg library
http://manual.audacityteam.org/index.ph ... tallffmpeg
you can import WMA files into Audacity version 1.3

PO'L