I've recently started experimenting with dual-booting Ubuntu 18.04 on my Windows 10 machine in hopes of eventually building a full linux rig down the line. I work on a lot of sound projects, so having good audio equipment is important to me.
However, after installing audacity, I found that I could not import audio into the program from external or secondary internal disks on my system, something that I had no trouble doing on my Windows machine. If I try to import from the menu (file>Import>Audio) none of the other drives even show up in the lists, despite being perfectly accessible through Nautilus. If I try to drag and drop my audio files into Audacity, like I generally do when working in Windows, I get this message: "Audacity did not recognize the type of the file '/mnt/D488FFDD88FFBBD4/Voice Acting/Completed Projects/Completed Audio/Filename.mp3.' Try installing FFmpeg. For uncompressed files, also try File>Import>Raw Data."
I get this message no matter what sort of file type I try to drop into audacity from either an external drive or the internal mounted drives. However, when I move or copy the file onto my home partition (onto the Ubuntu desktop or one of the home folders, like music or documents for instance) it works perfectly fine. The problem is, I don't want to have to save my files on that part of the system, as it's on a fairly small partition and it is much easier working with all the pieces from the other internal drives. Can anyone here give any help or advice? I've looked around, but I haven't seen any explanation yet.
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. If you are talking about Linux on Windows and you run Ubuntu as an application, that makes much complicated.