Installing FFmpeg for Audacity [FAST Tutorial]

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FFmpeg is a library that is necessary to open, import, and export various kinds of media files. It is not included with Audacity by default. To download it, simply go to this website, and you are presented with three options. The first one is 64-bit Windows, which will be the most useful for most people. macOS is also found here, and 32-bit is usually not relevant on modern systems.

To install it, simply click on the link and open the file you just downloaded, which is the installer. In here, click “Yes,” accept the agreement, save it to the default path, click “Install,” and you are done.

Now, go back to Audacity and click the locate button; it will tell you, “Success! Audacity has automatically detected valid FFmpeg files.” We do not need to locate them manually again, so we click “No,” and here we have the version that we just installed.

Additionally, a link to this guide I have been following is in the description. If you have any questions, feel free to ask them in the Audacity Forum or on Discord. That is all I have for you today. Goodbye and take care!