Newbie help

[newbie22]

Hi,
I just started using audacity, and I downloaded beta 1.3.14. I have been trying to import a cd that I pu on itunes. It's a MPEG-4 file. Itried dragging it directly from itunes to audacity, and going to the file on my harddrive. It keeps saying "Audacity attempted to FFmpeg to import an audio file, but the libraries were not found." I don't understand what I'm doing wrong. Any help would be appreiated.

[kozikowski]

Ordinary Audacity doesn't understand fancy music file formats. To do that, you have to download and install the FFMpeg software from here...

http://audacityteam.org/download/

Pick your operating system and follow the links.

Koz

[kozikowski]

You're working way too hard. Change iTunes settings to import a Music CD as WAV and it won't try to translate, compress, and damage the music. It will leave the music the WAV format that it was on the CD (but it will take up a lot more room). Then you can open the music and do production in Audacity without compression damage and then Export whatever you want: Music CD, iPod, Windows Media, etc.

If you do get compression damage, it will only happen once, at the end.

Koz

[newbie22]

Thanks for the help. It worked, looks like the newbie is on his way>