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Can't find library
Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2016 5:47 am
by exsheeple
I am running the latest version on Audacity 2.1.2. When I go into Edit / Preferences I don't see the Libraries option. Is this a feature I need to add? Thanks!!!
Re: Can't find library
Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2016 11:08 am
by steve
Which version of Linux?
How did you install Audacity?
Re: Can't find library
Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2016 1:21 pm
by Gale Andrews
exsheeple wrote:I am running the latest version on Audacity 2.1.2. When I go into Edit / Preferences I don't see the Libraries option. Is this a feature I need to add?
This is normal if you are using a distro-packaged version of Audacity on Debian-based systems. Such packaged versions are built with --disable-dynamic-loading as explained here:
http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/faq_ ... ferences_2.
So, MP3 export and import and export of formats that require FFmpeg should in theory "just work".
Gale
Re: Can't find library
Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2016 2:32 am
by exsheeple
steve wrote:Which version of Linux?
How did you install Audacity?
Sorry...i left out that info...16.04. I downloaded Audacity from the Software center
Re: Can't find library
Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2016 12:26 pm
by steve
exsheeple wrote:
Sorry...i left out that info...16.04.
I presume that you mean "Ubuntu 16.04".
As Gale wrote, it is normal on Ubuntu to not have the "Libraries" option. Installing Audacity from the Ubuntu repository should automatically install Lame and FFmpeg (or avconv). Note that the version of FFmpeg / avconv used by Ubuntu is probably more recent than what Audacity officially supports, so we can't guarantee how well it will work / which formats will be supported. MP3 export should work OK.