Avidemux Cannot Use That File As Audio | Track
Avidemux is a powerful, lightweight video editor beloved for simple cutting, filtering, and encoding tasks. However, users often encounter a frustrating roadblock when trying to add an external audio track:
The root cause usually boils down to container compatibility, audio formatting mismatches, or sample rate bugs within Avidemux's muxing engine. Here is a comprehensive guide to understanding why this happens and exactly how to fix it. Why Does This Error Happen?
Fix: Avidemux "Cannot use that file as audio track" Error The . While Avidemux is an exceptional tool for quick, lossless video cutting and multiplexing, it lacks internal demuxers for external audio tracks wrapped inside standard multimedia containers like .m4a or .mp4 .
Some users have reported success using this when the standard Select Track method failed. Try this as a specific workaround for AVI files.
Before loading external track, set:
Summary
The error in Avidemux typically occurs because the software has strict requirements for external audio streams . Unlike standard media players, Avidemux often expects "raw" audio streams rather than audio already wrapped in another container like .m4a or .mp4 . Core Causes for the Error
Recommended step-by-step using ffmpeg (reliable)
An .m4a file is not a raw audio format; it is an that holds audio instead of video. avidemux cannot use that file as audio track
ffmpeg -i input.m4a -c copy output.aac
The error “Avidemux cannot use that file as audio track” is Avidemux’s polite way of saying “give me a simple, standard audio file.” Convert your audio to or CBR MP3 , and Avidemux will happily accept it.
Once you have a compatible audio file, here is the correct procedure to add it to your video project:
ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -i new_audio.mp3 -c:v copy -map 0:v:0 -map 1:a:0 -shortest output.mp4 Avidemux is a powerful, lightweight video editor beloved
ffmpeg -i "your_audio.flac" -acodec pcm_s16le -ar 48000 -ac 2 audio.wav
Common causes
If you are trying to load a second video file to get its audio, and it fails, consider extracting the audio first. Open the video file in . Go to Audio > Save Audio . Save it as an .mp3 or .wav file.
