Description of problem: Attempting open or import of FLAC file results in a popup with the following error: Audacity did not recognize the type of this file. If it is uncompressed, try importing it using "Import Raw" Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Help->About reports 1.3.2-beta Package from Fedora repo is audacity-1.3.2-16.fc8 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. yum -y install audacity 2. run audacity 3. from file menu, choose open and select a FLAC audio file. Actual results: The pop-up menu described above will result: Audacity did not recognize the type of this file. If it is uncompressed, try importing it using "Import Raw" Expected results: A pop-up indicating "Importing FLAC file", correct operation of the application. This was the result with audacity-1.3.2-14.fc7 in Fedora 7. Additional info: I attempted to compile audacity from source (sourceforge) and was able to get FLAC support working fine (with the help of a patch I found at http://www.nabble.com/Building-audacity-on-Fedora-7-p12151069.html) but then I lose ALSA support and so forth. Was the version of fc8 accidentally or intentionally built without the FLAC support functional? Can I beg to have it back? Pretty please? :)
No. Fedora 7 is broken, too. The FLAC upgrade from 1.1.4 to 1.2.0 was ABI incompatible and required a simple rebuild of Audacity for all Fedora releases. Get the test-update that fixes this: yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update audacity