LameLib

[rontocknell]

I had the same problem and tried all of the above to no avail.

However, I think I have solved the frustration that both Audacity and LameLib seem to be creating.... I dumped the both of them and forgot that either have ever existed.

[kozikowski]

<<<When I tell Audacity 1.3.3 to export as a MP3, it asks me to show it the lib, so I make it /Applications/libmp3lame.dylib and it just tells me "Could not open MP3 encoding library!">>>

In other words, you're using unstable software and complaining that it's unstable, and you're posting in the wrong forum. I would repost in the 1.3.x forum. They'd be much more likely to help you over there.

Koz

[kozikowski]

<<<I had the same problem and tried all of the above to no avail.>>>

All of the above? You reinstalled fresh to a /Audacity folder under /Applications and put the lame software in the Plug-Ins folder?

You can always encode to MP3 or AAC using iTunes, so it isn't like you're forced to use the one in Audacity.

I gotta find another Intel machine to try this on. I just did another install using a PPC and Audacity 1.2.6. Audacity and the lame software installed perfectly and work. Total time ten minutes.

I did have trouble on the Intel machine because of the Zip file format. That one did not go smoothly.

Koz

[terwilligerjones]

Here's mine:

Model Name: Mac
Model Identifier: MacBook2,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache (per processor): 4 MB
Memory: 1 GB
Bus Speed: 667 MHz
Boot ROM Version: MB21.00A5.B00
+==================================
Audacity 1.2.6
/Applications
6899056 bytes
Owner can Read and Write
Everybody else RO
============================
/Users/Shared/libmp3lame.dylib
723,796 bytes
Owner RW
go +r
ownership is <my account>:wheel

I also tried moving Audacity to an Audacity folder and libmp3lame.dylib to /Applications/Audacity/Plug-ins. Ownership changed to group admin, with otherwise the same permissions. Still can't open it.

[kozikowski]

Excellent. Now get granular on how you got the libmp3lame.dylib file.

If you Apple-F on your system and find boma, does it admit bomarchivehelper exists at all?

Do you remember if you unzipped the downloaded lame file using Stuffit?

Koz

[idkidd]

Thanks Koz: after starting to gather the info your requested, I figured out my problem.

I'd downloaded Audacity 1.2.6 for a Power PC when I should have downloaded Audacity 1.2.5 for an Intel.

I'd bet everyone else with this problem did the same thing because my symptoms matched theirs perfectly.

[terwilligerjones]

Excellent. Now get granular on how you got the libmp3lame.dylib file.

If you Apple-F on your system and find boma, does it admit bomarchivehelper exists at all?

Do you remember if you unzipped the downloaded lame file using Stuffit?

I uncompressed with boma, but to make doubly sure, I re-downloaded the .zip, uncompressed with boma, replaced the copy in /Applications/Audacity/Plug-ins with the resulting file, and tried again. Same error code.

HTH

terwilliger

[kozikowski]

You have the wrong Audacity. Intel machines should be on 1.2.5.

Koz

[terwilligerjones]

You have the wrong Audacity. Intel machines should be on 1.2.5.

Uh....Audacity works fine. It's only the export of mp3's that doesn't work correctly. If I had ppc code, it wouldn't run...

terwilliger

[terwilligerjones]

OK...you nailed it. I refetched 1.25 and everything works, but how in blazes was I running Motorola code on an Intel processor? I'm a Mac newby (Linux is my preferred OS), but that makes no sense....what have I missed?

(an abashed)
terwilliger