Audacity Forum

Alright, so I don't know if I'm an idiot or what, but I read all 5 pages of the last LameLIB thread and still can't manage to get it to work. I have downloaded it, and there is the standard libmp3lame.dylib file... it automatically extracts the folder as soon as it's finished downloading, but I'm having the same problem as everyone else; Audacity doesn't recognize it. I don't have BOM or StuffIt... should I download either of those? I tried moving the libmp3lame.dylib file to the Audacity plugins folder, and that didn't work either. I feel pretty darn pathetic. So, Koz, the genius of the threads, if you could help, that would be great. I'm running Mac OS X 10.5 on my MacBook, if that helps.

<<<genius of the threads>>>

I'll take that as the antidote to a posting further down the forum:

<<<Should I presume that you do not regularly bathe or get enough sunlight due to a fear of leaving your mother's basement?>>>

I like your questions better.

OS-X 10.5. It's usually three numbers, not that it makes a lot of difference in this case. That's Leopard, right? You are running Audacity 1.2.5, right? It's under Help. not under the program name.

.....Ah, yes. I see the problem. there is no more 1.2.5. It's 1.2.6 across the board, now. [email protected]#$%. This was so easy when I had the same setup that you did. Shucks.

There is about 95% chance that your Lame Library file and the Audacity version don't match. They will not recognize each other's files, although the program itself will run--against all odds. I got an amazed look in another thread when we proved that the Motorola code would run--mostly correctly--on an Intel machine. None of the plugins worked, however.

The other 5% rests in the decoding of the ZIP file. I had trouble doing that. I see by the notes that Safari should be able to handle that with no further work on your part. I was using FireFox.

Before you kill yourself any further, I've been chasing all the really hard cases over to 1.3.x. You may join the exclusive club of people for which there's nothing wrong, it just doesn't work. They mostly crash, tho. You survive and just the plugins don't work. We should lbe able to fix that.

Let me try some of these steps out on my machine, although I'm not running Leopard. I may turn up something.

Koz

OK, so more digging. You can still get 1.2.5 and it's the version for OS-X Intel--all varieties.

http://audacityteam.org/download/mac

Is that what you have?

The web site just went down. I've been having that on and off recently. Technology is our friend.

Koz

All back. I didn't reinstall Audacity, but I am running 1.2.5 on my Intel machine. I downloaded the lame library under Safari and it produced a nice folder on my desktop. Drill down to the libmp3lame.dylib file and move it to /Applications/Audacity. Launch Audacity and point it at the new file and it can find it just fine. MP3 exports work.

By the way, the dylib file I downloaded and the one I had from before are different. They have different creation dates--but they both seem to work. Your OS-X-Safari should complain that you are downloading an application and are you sure you want to continue. I said yes.

Koz

AHA!! success! All I had to do was download Audacity 1.2.5 instead of 1.2.6. Well shoot.

But now for some reason my mp3 files won't transfer to my phone through the bluetooth... says there's an internal error.

gah.

The MP3 tracks do play OK in stand-alone QuickTime Player, right, and they import into iTunes?

Koz

heh, nevermind, figured that one out too -- my phone memory was full. derrrrrr.

D'Oh!

Koz

I have been trying to get the LAMElib thing to work for about 3 hours now. I'm feeling really lame. I am running 10.4 on a PowerBook G4. When I go to Audacity Pref. it asked me to locate LAMElib and when I say yes the app doesn't show up anywhere. I have tried to put it in the applications folder, on the desktop... Can't get it to show up. I have downloaded the version for OS 10 PCC several times from different places with no luck. I'm about to give up!
Yudder

<<<OS 10 PCC>>>

Let's try not to use shortcuts until we get this resolved. I have no idea what that means.

If you run OS-X 10.4.x on a PowerPC G4, you should be running Audacity 1.2.4 or 1.2.6 for the PowerPC. Then download LameLib-Carbon.sit and unstuff it (which may happen automatically). Then Audacity > Preferences > File Formats > MP3 Export. and see if you can point to the lamelib file. So far all failures can be traced to having the wrong Audacity or the wrong lame (and one bad decompression).

It appears that Audacity code is somewhat cross-compatible between Intel and Motorola, so it's perfectly possible to be running the wrong Audacity and not know it.

Koz