Audacity Forum

I downloaded and installed LAME but when I go to export my file as an MP3 and choose lame it says that it wasn't what it was expecting and cannot open the MP3 library. I redownloaded a couple times but still have the same problem. Help! thanks

On a Mac, this can be the wrong Audacity.

If you're on a new Mac; Intel, Leopard (10.5) or above, you should be on Audacity 1.3. I like 1.3.7. The new machines do not support Audacity 1.2.

Audacity 1.3.7 -- Mac
http://audacity.googlecode.com/files/au ... -1.3.7.zip

If you have an Intel machine and 10.4 or below, then you should be running Audacity 1.2.5, not 1.2.6.

What combination do you have? Apple > About This Mac.

Koz

i have an older macbook (2006, OS X 10.4) and i have the audacity 1.2 version. it's what my school suggested using so thats what download they provided. should i try a different version? thanks

<<<i have an older macbook (2006, OS X 10.4) and i have the audacity 1.2 version.>>>

Need more detail. Apple > About This Mac and read us what it says after Processor. Audacity one-point-two-point what? That last number makes a big difference.

Koz

2 GHz intel core duo
audacity is version 1.2.5

Tiger on an Intel machine. Cool. I have one of those. Yes, 1.2.5 is appropriate, but I need to go home to figure out which lame I used. The lame software comes down compressed. Did you decompress it before you installed it?

Koz

well i'm not exactly a tech wiz so i'm not sure if i decompressed it, i just downloaded it then clicked the icon and installed it onto my hard drive. sorry if thats not helpful-was there something else i should have done?

It's not entirely rocket surgery. You probably pulled down a lame Disk Image file (.dmg). When you clicked on it, you either got an Installer Package (.pkg) or it directly gave you the working file.

libmp3lame.dylib - 708 KB on disk - Monday, March 26, 2007 12:12 AM

If you can find that file (Desktop > File > Find...), you can Control-Click on it and Get Info.

Let's stop so you can catch up.

Koz

yep thats what i have. i ended up redownloading audacity right now and exporting works! not sure why it didn't work before, but it works now. thanks for your help though!