FFMPEG - help needed

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mrshoppy
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FFMPEG - help needed

Post by mrshoppy » Mon Apr 04, 2011 7:11 pm

Hi - very much a newbie here, so sorry if this question has been answered elsewhere...

I am a returning user to Audacity, and started to make more recordings (i do mediation/relaxation tracks), but when i wanted to add an audio track, i receive a message about not being ffmpeg (sorry i didn't copy the error message, but can do if it is important).

Im using microsoft Vista on my PC.

I have not had problems in the past - from what i remember i could use mp3 and wav files (wav mainly) and got excellent results.

any help - if you can help me, please can you keep your answer as less-techy as you can.

many thanks in advance.
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bgravato
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Re: FFMPEG - help needed

Post by bgravato » Mon Apr 04, 2011 11:35 pm

For importing and exporting some audio file formats such as mp3 you need to have ffmpeg and/or lame installed. You can get both from here: http://audacityteam.org/download/beta_windows

Scroll down to the optional downloads sections.
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