MSi File > Audacity > Lame Dll issues

[harvey_mayway]

Hello and thankyou before hand for any help you can provide.


I work in a school and we want to deploy Audacity to our students over a Windows2003 server setup.

I require a MSi file and Lame_dll solution to this problem.

would anyone be able to to help

does anyone know how to deploy + get the lame_dll to become automated with differnt user profiles.

Your help in this matter would be appreciated

[Gale Andrews]

I work in a school and we want to deploy Audacity to our students over a Windows2003 server setup.
I require a MSi file and Lame_dll solution to this problem.
does anyone know how to deploy + get the lame_dll to become automated with differnt user profiles.

Audacity doesn't supply MSI installers. There is an alternative to MSI installation using a Group Policy Installation script.

If you want Audacity 1.2.6 there is a third-party MSI installer here. You can also find free tools to create MSI installers on the web such as:
http://dennisbareis.com/makemsi.htm

To install lame for a new user automatically, you need to run some kind of script or other solution that automatically creates the required Audacity settings. The Audacity settings for 1.2 are in the Windows Registry or (for 1.3) in the audacity.cfg file. For details, see Audacity Preferences.

For pre-installing lame with an MSI installer, try
http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... msi#p35422

Another way that works in 1.2 (whether you use an MSI installer or not) is to create a .reg file to merge your required settings in the Registry, then put a shortcut to the Regedit registry editor in the Startup group for each user. Right-click the shortcut, click Properties, and edit the Target box to read:

%windir%regedit.exe/S C:audacity.reg

adjusting the path to the .reg file as necessary.

An example .reg file is here:
http://www.gaclrecords.org.uk/audacity.reg

This preloads the language to English and the path to lame_enc.dll. When any user logs on, the shortcut will invoke Regedit to load Audacity with the settings specified in the .reg file.


Gale