Consider using platform decoders for decoding AAC audio
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Currently Audacity requires ffmpeg to decode AAC audio, it would be considerably more user friendly to have decode support out of the box. Firefox works around the AAC patent problem by using the AAC decoder that ships with macOS or Windows. Audacity could do the same.
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- [ ] https://github.com/audacity/audacity/issues/3862
- [ ] https://github.com/audacity/audacity/issues/3861
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