Audacity crashes during .Mp3 import.

[henric]

I don't get an error number or anything. All I get is a box which says "Audacity Cross-Platform Sound Editor has stopped working. A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Blah, blah, blah."

No error number or anything.

Take a look in the Application Event Log, there should be an entry from Source "Application Error" for each crash. Hit Windows-X or right-click the start icon, select "Event Viewer" from the menu, then you should find the "Application" log under "Windows Logs". Post a copy of the contents of the log entry's text box and we may be able to find some clue there.

[henric]

Did you use the .EXE installer? If so, do you still have the installer file? If you do, you can check its validity by testing it with this on-line checker: https://md5file.com/calculator

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Keep in mind that uploading private information is not always a great idea. 7-Zip provides a context menu in Windows Explorer. Otherwise, one can run PowerShell and use the "Get-FileHash" command (IIRC, the default algorithm is SHA-256.) From a UNIXish shell, "sha256sum" or sometimes "sha256" can be used.

[TraceySchulz]

Try this thread. Suggested downloading an older version of Audacity. The trick is though you still need the newer one on your computer also.
viewtopic.php?f=16&t=64096

[steve]

Try this thread. Suggested downloading an older version of Audacity. The trick is though you still need the newer one on your computer also.
viewtopic.php?f=16&t=64096

That's an ancient thread, in which Gale Andrews is recommending updating to a newer version of Audacity.
I would not recommend going back to an older version because (a) I very much doubt it will solve this problem (b) There have been many bug fixes and other improvements in newer versions.