Audacity Forum

If you see "Lame" and a version number in the Libraries Preferences rather than "not found", then Lame is detected. Can't find any Lame files in either HD > Library > Preferences or User > Library > Preferences, either by visual inspection or through Find. Reading what you said again, Audacity woul...

It looks like I'm always logged in as the Admin, so I don't think that's it. Strangely the Audacity log shows that LAME was loaded, but it doesn't show specific version numbers like with FFmpeg, if that means anything. The Windows tone you sent does open in GargeBand... 09:23:30: Audacity 1.3.14-bet...

PS. I do have one mp3 file that I was able export from Audacity a week or so ago when Audacity was able to open the libmp3lame.dylib file. It does import into Garageband, and when I look at it in iTunes get info says it was encoded by LAME3.98.

Thanks for all the helpful suggestions. I've tried everything on the list and currently the only one that worked (but thankfully it did work) was to export as AIFF into iTunes and then export as MP3. When I tried exporting Audacity as both an AAC file and an MP3 file--using custom ffmpeg--and then i...

Sadly, it didn't work. I had tried the zip option before and I just tried it again and placed the lame file in the Audacity application folder (I think that's what you meant). I also tried just leaving it on the desktop and navigating to it there. I also quit and reopened Audacity. It just doesn't l...

Hi, I'm using Audacity 1.3.14 on an Intel Mac OS X 10.6.8 and can't get Audacity to open the Lame file libmp3lame.dylib. As a result exporting to mp3 creates an empty file. The location of the Lame file appears in the Audacity/Preferences/Libraries/MP3 Export Library/Locate Lame window correctly, an...