Loading music[.wma] to Audacity FAIL..

[Kyoshi]

How can this be fixed?

I'm using version 1.3 beta.

When I attempt to open the music file, I get the following message.

"Audacity recognized the type of the file 'C: blah blah blah blah' but was unable to import it."

[kozikowski]

There are two ways to capture sound that gives Audacity troubles. The fastest is use the download of Super or Switch to convert the work to something Audacity can handle -- generally WAV.

Or you can play the work and record it real time in Audacity. You can do that with a program like Total Recorder, or by messing with the Windows Control Panels. This is the What-U-Hear or Mix-Out technique written about here...

http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php? ... e_computer

Windows Media has two "problems." It's a proprietary format, so it's a little rough to deal with right there, and if you're trying to manage a copy protected song, you get to fight the security layer, too.

Koz

[Irish]

If you download and install the ffmpeg library
http://manual.audacityteam.org/index.ph ... tallffmpeg
you can import WMA files into Audacity version 1.3

PO'L