I need Audacity a complete version not the one with no codecs installed since I need to edit some sound files to make ringtones for my phone. I can’t do that because the version of Audicity installed on 11.4 has no codecs to support MP3, MP4 or M4A. What I have been having to do is go to a Windows computer to do this with Audacity on a Windows system. It is very stressful using a Windows system for more than a few minutes for this kind of work as none of my music is on that machine. How can I get Audacity with full codec support? It existed in 11.3 but is no where to be found in 11.4
I added the Packaman multimedia repo along with the regular Packman repo but no joy there.
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> I need Audacity a complete version not the one with no codecs installed
> since I need to edit some sound files to make ringtones for my phone. I
> can’t do that because the version of Audicity installed on 11.4 has no
> codecs to support MP3, MP4 or M4A. What I have been having to do is go
> to a Windows computer to do this with Audacity on a Windows system. It
> is very stressful using a Windows system for more than a few minutes for
> this kind of work as none of my music is on that machine. How can I get
> Audacity with full codec support? It existed in 11.3 but is no where to
> be found in 11.4
>
> I added the Packaman multimedia repo along with the regular Packman
> repo but no joy there.
>
it’s there in the packman repo, but you’ll have to switch to the packman
version. neither zypper nor yast software management won’t change a
package to a different repo unless you explicitly tell them to do so.
in yast, after highlighting audacity, click on the “versions” tab on the
bottom. there you should see the packman version of audacity – if you’ve
got the correct packman repo enabled. they provide different repositories
now. one is called “essentials” and probably doesn’t contain applications
like audacity, but just the needed codecs & stuff to enable other app.s to
play restricted media formats.
(i could look up the exact address for the correct packman repo for you,
but you can do that yourself as well.)
Thanks Phani. It was right there under the version tab. I have Packman set to 90 and everything else to 99 in priority but when I did the update from 11.3 to 11.4 there was no Packman repo so I got the unencumbered version of Audacity when I upgraged to 11.4. I just installed it and produced a nice ringtone.
The priority is very unimportant. When you have changed the vendor of those Packman packages to Packman, they stay Packman even if a higher version is available in OSS. Only when you do zypper dup you break this vendor lock.