title: Pydub unable to locate ffprobe
body: <p>Here is the link to a similar question to this: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22284461/pydub-windowserror-error-2-the-system-can-not-find-the-file-specified">Pydub (WindowsError: [Error 2] The system can not find the file specified)</a>
  Although in this one the problem is with ffmpeg, which I solved by setting the absolute path.</p>
  <p>After setting the absolute path for converter and/or ffmpeg with either:</p>
  <p><code>AudioSegment.converter = r'C:\ffmpeg\bin'</code></p>
  <p>or</p>
  <p><code>AudioSegment.ffmpeg = r'C:\ffmpeg\bin'</code></p>
  <p>I still get this error:</p>
  <blockquote>
  <p>C:\Program Files\Python36\lib\site-packages\pydub\utils.py:193: RuntimeWarning: Couldn't find ffprobe or avprobe - defaulting to ffprobe, but may not work
  warn(&quot;Couldn't find ffprobe or avprobe - defaulting to ffprobe, but may not work&quot;, RuntimeWarning)
  Traceback (most recent call last):
  File &quot;C:/Users/Sean/Desktop/vp/encode_audio/m4a_to_wav.py&quot;, line 4, in 
  song = AudioSegment.from_file(&quot;pines.m4a&quot;, &quot;m4a&quot;)
  File &quot;C:\Program Files\Python36\lib\site-packages\pydub\audio_segment.py&quot;, line 660, in from_file
  info = mediainfo_json(orig_file)
  File &quot;C:\Program Files\Python36\lib\site-packages\pydub\utils.py&quot;, line 263, in mediainfo_json
  res = Popen(command, stdin=stdin_parameter, stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE)
  File &quot;C:\Program Files\Python36\lib\subprocess.py&quot;, line 707, in <strong>init</strong>
  restore_signals, start_new_session)
  File &quot;C:\Program Files\Python36\lib\subprocess.py&quot;, line 990, in _execute_child
  startupinfo)
  FileNotFoundError: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified`</p>
  </blockquote>
  <p>I have ffmpeg in my path envvar. I also have libav in my path envvar, and installed libav and then pydub in the order specified at <a href="https://github.com/jiaaro/pydub#dependencies" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/jiaaro/pydub#dependencies</a>.</p>
  <p>Nothing I'm doing appears to be working, so any ideas or solutions would be greatly appreciated!</p>