It finally happened, I've been using wma's forever and never a complaint until now. The girl singer wants some mp3's I tried sending her wma's but no it has to be mp3's. OK, I've been reading about Audacity for years so I installed the latest version, hit New, hit Import and I imported a wav file created with Biab. Nada.

It looks like it imported, the song title is across top but the window is completely blank. No waveform at all. I've closed/reopened, I tried doing a gain change just in case, I've had Biab recreate the wav, it's the same. Here's the instructions and I followed them to the letter:

Importing audio

Go to File > Import > Audio... and navigate to the audio file that you want to import. Select a file and click Open.

If Audacity opens a warning screen click the option that says "Make a copy of the files before editing (Safer)" and click OK.

Audacity can import WAV, AIFF, AU, IRCAM, MP3 and OGG files. WMA files can also be imported with the FFmpeg libraries installed.

What the heck? Audacity is supposed to be drop dead simple and the doc's now say it includes the LAME encoder so what gives?

Bob

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