Can't get audacity to import MP3

[PompeyBlue]

I've installed audacity, and have the LAME plugin installed. Problem is, I can't import mp3 files into audacity, I keep getting:

"This version of audacity is not compiled with mp3 support"

DO I need to do anything to get audacity to import mp3s ? The preferences only had an area for encoder (i.e. export) nothing for import.

[BugRocks1]

My guess is that you are using the audicity well behaved one and not the audacity freeworld(the naughty one).

In that case you will not have support for any proprietary codec and that means you have to transcode the files to a open standard first or uninstall audacity and install the freeworld version.

[PompeyBlue]

How do I install the freeworld version ? Is there a RPM / Repository ? I've just checked and I can definately EXPORT mp3, just nnot import them.

---------- Post added at 03:54 PM CDT ---------- Previous post was at 03:40 PM CDT ----------

Ah, uninstall, then re-install the freeworld

[BugRocks1]

The name of the package is:

audacity-freeworld

you could try:

yum install audacity-freeworld

or use packagekit to search for it. If it don't show up make sure you have the rpmfusion repositories installed.

[Ahriman]

Here is an article that describes how to do it step by step: https://techwords.io/audacity-mp3-support-fedora/