Thanks for the heads-up and the links, Nothing like getting the answers before questions have been askedI updated info regarding my experience with that version:
https://www.xpforums.com/threads/adobe-audition-3-0-1.935642/post-3275857
Basically I rolled back to ffmpeg-6.2-609-238f9de-win32-static-xpmod-sse.7z
That's because v7 does not work with The Fraunhofer ibfdk-aac v 2.0.3 for me.