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I installed Lame for Audacity repeatedly. If I don't default, I see that it installs in a LIB/AUDACITY file. But I can't find it. I do finder searches for files modified today. Somehow I need to tell Audacity where they are, but I can't find them!

How do I find them?

Let's try...

User > koz > Library > Application Support > audacity

Yours won't say "koz."

The file you're actually looking for is libmp3lame.dylib

All that's assuming an Intel Mac.

Apple > About This Mac > Processor.

Do you have an Intel Mac, or Power PC?

<<<If I don't default>>>

Say that again and use different words.

Koz

I could not find
/Users/HBrazee/Library/Application Support/Audacity

I could not find libmp3lame.dylib.

The Lame libraries that I installed are named: Lame Library v3.98.2 for Audacity.

When I run Lame Library v3.98.2 for Audacity.pkg it first asks me to select a volume, I select "Macintosh HD".

It tells me "You have chosen to install this software in the folder “lib” on the volume “Macintosh HD”."

If I hit (Choose Folder...) to find out where it is installing it (by default), it shows a default finder (without the path which I have set up for my regular finder) of libaudacity. I see a bunch of files which includes the one I can't find above. I hit the [|] button to try to find where I am, but that shows only the audacity directory here. I opened terminal and tried to find lib in the root. No luck.

I continued, it installed, but I have no idea where. Finder won't find the file, spotlight won't find the file.

I decided to go on - I'll keep looking for my lib directory to clean up later, but for now I copied libmp3lame.dylib to a directory I know about.

When I ran Audacity, it looked for Only LameLib, which had this file grayed out. Then I enabled all files, and selected libmp3lame.dylib, and tried to open it. Audacity could not open MP3 encoding library.

I think the system administrators Did Something to make the lame process much easier and I'm not sure I like very much what they did.
Koz