lab deployment, default preferences

[yeldarbd]

Hello,

I deploy Audacity (1.2.6 currently) in a lab environment. Is there a way for me to edit the default preferences for Audacity? The "audacity preferences" text file gets created in ~/Library/Preferences (user space) when someone runs it for the first time. I would like to be able to put an "audacity preferences" file in /Library/Preferences, so that it could be used as the default for ANY/all users, but apparently Audacity does not look in that location like a normal Mac OS X application is supposed to do (placing a prefs file there seems to be ignored by Audacity).

For example, I would like to be able to specify the location of the LAME dynlib, for example, in the preference file ahead of time, so that the users are not prompted to tell Audacity where the library file is the first time they run it (a user confusion issue.)

[MP3]
MP3LibPath=/usr/local/lib/audacity/libmp3lame.dylib

[kozikowski]

It's actually worse than that. The early Audacity used one place and file, the medium Audacities used the one you referenced, and the New Portable Audacity uses yet a third.

The developer helpers have the opposite problem. We have to clear the decks for each upgrade and change so that there is no trace of the old one around. Sometimes that's a chore.

I have cross-posted a link to this question on "Add Features to Audacity."

Koz