How to get rid of the FSBTool ERROR during an import of (any) audio files?

I 'm unable to fix it, tried everything I could find on the web:

  • checking file dates
  • deactivating anti-virus, firewall, finally the net itself
  • exporting via Audacity in all supported formats and importing as such
  • reducing audio quality within Unity

Using Unity 5.5.4p4 on Windows 7.

The error:

Errors during import of AudioClip Assets/cityambience.mp3:
FSBTool ERROR: Could not find encoder library ‘libvorbis.dll’, please copy it from the FMOD SDK to the application directory.
FSBTool ERROR: Encoder initialization failed.
FSBTool ERROR: Encoder initialization failed.

I found the libvorbis.dll in the FSBTool folder, tried the above, doesn’t work. Cannot find the FMOD SDK, doesn’t exist in Unity folder.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Nenad G. (office@gojkovicdb.com)

After some workaround tries, the problem was solved (for me at least) by replacing DLL’s from Unity 2017.1 at that path: [PATH_TO_UNITY]\Editor\Data\Tools\FSBTool