LameLib

[richardash1981]

You haven't said whether you have an Intel or PPC mac, this matters. If you have an Intel mac, don't try and run the PPC binary through Rosetta, it won't work. Run 1.2.5 Intel binary, and then you can use the mac universal download. It's a zip file so you need to unzip it before you can point audacity at the library.

On a PPC you want the 1.2.6 PPC binary of audacity and the carbon download. It's a .sit file compressed with stuffit, so you need to unstuff the file before you can point audacity to LameLib.

[kozikowski]

<<<I'm pretty sure that's not what is happening.>>>

Yeah. I'm beginning to think that's not what's wrong either.

Are you an administrator on your machine? Apple, System Preferences, Accounts.

When was the last time you did a drive check on your machine? I'm particularly interested in the Permissions check.

If you've never done it, I can step you through the most common tools. Do you know where the Install CD is that came with your machine?

Koz

[kozikowski]

I think I got it.

Did you uncompress the Lame Library file? It comes down as a protected and compressed file and must be decompressed before you can use it or Audacity can see it.

One comes down as a ZIP type of file and the other a StuffIt.

Koz

[dan_k]

Got it!

Thanks. I had never checked whether I had an Intel or PPC processor, and I didn't have Stuffit expander (until 5 mins ago).
LameLib works now.

Thanks again.

Dan.

[kozikowski]

[dusting hands] Our work here is done.

Koz

[lame-lib-help-needed]

I too am having trouble with LameLib. I'm on a MacBook (Intel) with OS X 10.4.10 and Audacity 1.2.6. I'm working my way through the problems with the version of LameLib provided for Intel (libmp3lame-osx-universal-3.97). Here's the list so far:
The "installer" is not really an installer, but a PackageMaker document. It needs to be Built (Build under the Project menu in PackageMaker) before it is an installer. Of course, to do so, one must have the XCode tools installed.
The Installer places the file inside an invisible folder. When Audacity asks the user to find it, it can't be navigated to. One must either modify the PackageMaker doument before Building it, or dig out the file from the PackageMaker document and place it where desired.
I placed it into the Audacity folder I created in the Applications folder. When Audacity asked me to find it, I was able to do so, but it was grayed out -- I was unable to choose it, as Audacity requested.
In the course of troubleshooting, I read the installation instructions a little more carefully, and found this: "Slight modifications will need to be make to allow it to run on an Intel based Mac." Where can I get the version that has the "slight modifications?" Failing that, where can I get instructions for making the "slight modifications?"

[kozikowski]

We would just as soon you had started a new thread with this because now you won't show up on a thread search.

However:

If you're on a new Intel Mac like I am, download the libmp3lame-osx-universal-3.97.zip file and put it on your desktop. Open With BOMArchiveHelper.app (built into OS-X) and that should give you a new folder called libmp3lame-osx-universal-3.97.

Open that folder and the Package folder inside that. Keep drilling down until you get to the libmp3lame.dylib file. Drag that to /Applications/Audacity/Plug-Ins. Enjoy your MP3 exports.

You can actually put the file anywhere, but that was the most convenient and orderly for me. Every plugin goes in one place. The first time Audacity tries to export MP3, it will ask you where that file is. Remember where you put it.

You can certainly recompile the converter if you want (which is what you're doing), but if you have no experience with compilers, then that could be very interesting task. Do it the other way so you can be exporting MP3s while you figure it out.

Koz

[lame-lib-help-needed]

Koz --

Thanks for your help, but I did that, and it didn't work. (I compiled - not recompiled, because it had not been compiled - the PackageMaker document and ran it, modified it so it would install into the Audacity folder and ran it again, and drilled down to the dylib and moved it to the Audacity folder, but no matter how I delivered it, it was grayed out and unselectable when I followed Audacity's directions to choose it to enable the MPG export.
I assume it's because of the line from the developer about how it needs to be modified to work with Intel Macs. I'm on a MacBook. What Intel Mac are you using it with?
Is it possible that the one place you can't put it is into the same folder as the Audacity program? I'll try that.

--Scott

[kozikowski]

I'm using a 6-month old Intel Mac Mini. It's my VCR among other things.

If you're compiling anything you're doing it wrong. Stop that.

Download the zip file.

[Open With] and BOMArchiveHelper.app will be one of the options. That will produce the new folder that has a fully-formed library file all ready for dragging. It's in the Package folder several level down. No compiling or patching or linking necessary.

Did Audacity ask you were the file was? There is a way to force Audacity to go and find it without exporting. Preferences, File Formats, Find Library.

Koz

[lame-lib-help-needed]

Koz --

Thanks again for your help. I started over again and did everything just as you suggested (inluding putting the .dylib file into the plug-ins folder and using Preferences to try to get Audacity to recognize it). When Audacity asks me to find it, I navigate to it and cannot select it, as it is grayed out. You apparently did not have that experience, so it must be something about my system that is preventing it from being accepted.