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Posted by Sukhoi29SU on Mar-13-2008 22:56:

Audacity/LameLib question

Just a quick question to those of you that might be using Audacity on a Macbook, and exporting MP3's with LameLib.

I am new to Macs, and am having a bit of trouble installing LameLib on my Macbook Pro.

I've installed Audacity, but it is telling me that if I intend to export a file as an mp3 I needed this LameLib program. I downloaded that off of Google, but when I double click on the file, it won't open. What application should I try to open this .pmprog file with in order to install LameLib on my computer so that I can export MP3's.

Or, are there any other programs other than LameLib that will work instead?

I've tried to google this, but didn't have any luck

Thanks

Posted by MERiDiAN5i2 on Mar-14-2008 00:02:

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/hel...l&item=lame-mp3

Posted by Sukhoi29SU on Mar-14-2008 20:16:

I appreciate the link, but I had found that when downloading audacity, and have tried it. Unfortunately I am still getting a message that says audacity is unable to open the mp3 library, and when it asks me to find LameLib, I go through and find it- but I think since it hasn't been actually installed on the computer- it doesn't work. I can't find a program to open the file with to actually install it on my computer.

Posted by skip on Mar-14-2008 21:59:

you can't really install lame as it's not really a program, just an encoder other programs use to encode mp3s.
so you've downloaded this:
http://lame.buanzo.com.ar/libmp3lam...versal-3.97.zip
right?
and unpacked it to some directory, right?
so then you need to locate the "libmp3lame.dylib" file with audacity, which is in the follwing path:
what_ever_folder_you_unpacked_the_file_in\libmp3lame-osx-universal-3.97\package\usr\local\lib\

after that it should work. if not, then i'm clueless.

Posted by Sukhoi29SU on Mar-15-2008 15:32:

quote:
Originally posted by skip
you can't really install lame as it's not really a program, just an encoder other programs use to encode mp3s.
so you've downloaded this:
http://lame.buanzo.com.ar/libmp3lam...versal-3.97.zip
right?
and unpacked it to some directory, right?
so then you need to locate the "libmp3lame.dylib" file with audacity, which is in the follwing path:
what_ever_folder_you_unpacked_the_file_in\libmp3lame-osx-universal-3.97\package\usr\local\lib\

after that it should work. if not, then i'm clueless.

Yep, did that. For some reason it says it can't open the Mp3 encoding library when I select that file with Audacity...

Not sure if I have a setting that is preventing it, or maybe the wrong version of Audacity?

Posted by r5a on Mar-15-2008 17:09:

See:

http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index....ws_Instructions

Posted by SteelWolf on Mar-15-2008 20:04:

I use audacity on my macbook pro, but don't use the LAME library. I just export to AIFF and the use iTunes to convert at constant bitrate, I never liked LAME, but thats just me.

Posted by skip on Mar-15-2008 20:30:

quote:
Originally posted by SteelWolf
I never liked LAME

what's not to like in the best mp3 encoder?

Posted by SteelWolf on Mar-16-2008 06:20:

Dunno I just always liked the fraunhoffer codec better, I don't do teh VBR thing either

Posted by Sukhoi29SU on Mar-16-2008 21:21:

I appreciate everyone's responses- I finally figured out what I had done wrong.

I was following the LameLib instructions perfectly, but it wasn't working because I had downloaded the "PPC" version of Audacity- which ran great on my Macbook Pro- except when it came to finding the 'LameLib mp3 encoding library'. I went back to the Audacity website, installed the 'Intel' version, and it works like it is supposed to, now.

Thanks again for the help

Posted by SteelWolf on Mar-17-2008 08:13:

^that'll do it! btw I love the intel processors, thougth I'd hate them as a die hard macaddict that I am, but they're kicking ass