Help for Audacity on Windows.
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This forum is for Audacity on Windows.
Please state which version of Windows you are using,
and the exact three-section version number of Audacity from "Help menu > About Audacity".
Audacity 1.2.x and 1.3.x are obsolete and no longer supported. If you still have those versions, please upgrade at
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1.2.x and
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edwinn
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by edwinn » Wed Dec 30, 2015 1:34 pm
V 2.1.1
In the past month or two, I've suggested to another user, that a downloaded MP4 from YouTube can simply be dragged and DROPPED onto 2.1.1 and the Audio track will open and appear very quickly. Seems YouTube has changed formats, and dropping an MP4 onto Audacity now fails with a warning box.
What's with that??
-Ed
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Trebor
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by Trebor » Wed Dec 30, 2015 3:10 pm
edwinn wrote:... dropping an MP4 onto Audacity now fails with a warning box ... What's with that??
If the other user has yet to install FFmpeg into Audacity, then Audacity won't play MP4.
http://manual.audacityteam.org/index.ph ... Library.3F
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DVDdoug
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by DVDdoug » Wed Dec 30, 2015 3:18 pm
YouTube doesn't "allow" you to download directly, so takes a 3rd party utility. You might need to find a different download utility.
And, make sure you've got the optional FFmpeg import/export library for Audacity installed and try a known-good MP4 to confirm you can open it.
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edwinn
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by edwinn » Wed Dec 30, 2015 3:27 pm
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edwinn
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by edwinn » Wed Dec 30, 2015 3:32 pm
DVDdoug wrote:so takes a 3rd party utility. You might need to find a different download utility. And, make sure you've got the optional FFmpeg import/export library for Audacity installed and try a known-good MP4 to confirm you can open it.
Yeah thanks, upgrading to Firefox 43.0 broke the download plugin, then I went to Firefox 43.1 (64-bit) which seems fast. Can still download MP4 files though.
Just remembered .. brought a new i7, Win-7 (64-bit) PC online in the past 4 or 5 weeks!
-Ed
