I have Audacity 1.2.5 installed on my Intel iMac. I am running OS 10.4.11. Audacity successfully copies and then plays music from an LP, but I have not yet succeeded in creating an MP3 version of it. Any attempt to export in MP3 format gives the error message:
| Export MP3. Audacity does not export MP3 files directly, but instead uses |
| LAME, an MP3 exporting library available separately. See the |
| documentation for more information. |
| |
| Would you like to locate libmp3lame.dylib now?" |
I have downloaded and printed the Wiki instructions. They tell me to "go to the instructions for LameLib-Carbon-3.91.sit, Lame Library v3.98.2 for Audacity.dmg or libmp3ame-osx-universal-3.97.zip."
I have downloaded "Lame Library v3.98.2 for Audacity.dmg." Safari automatically decompressed it and opened "Lame Library v3.98.2 for Audacity.pkg" I double-clicked on that latter item, and I was told that it was properly installed.
Yet the Wiki instructions next tell me that, "This will install the LAME binary "libmp3lame.dylib" in /usr/local/lib/audacity." But I could find no such file and no such "usr" folder.
I did a "SPOTLIGHT" search for the "libmp3lame.dylib" file. It showed up in the search, but when I hovered the cursor over it, it report that the file was in the trash. Yet, when I opened the trash can, there was no sign of it there. The same thing happened when I did a "SPOTLIGHT" search for "usr" folder. It too was reported as being in the trash, but it wasn't.
I have searched in every way I know, and I cannot find the "libmp3lame.dylib" file. And since the Wiki instructions do not spell out the path completely from the root, I can't find find the file, and therefore I can't create MP3 files.
Can't get MP3 conversion started
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Mac 0S X 10.3 and earlier are no longer supported but you can download legacy versions of Audacity for those systems HERE.
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Re: Can't get MP3 conversion started
I'm more than even sure that you have the wrong lame file. That's the file I have and I'm on a PPC G4, not an Intel machine. Everything has to match.
http://lame.buanzo.com.ar/
They scrambled the Mac installers a while back and lost me completely. Did you download the .dmg file for Audacity 1.2.5?
Did the installer make you put your password in?
Koz
http://lame.buanzo.com.ar/
They scrambled the Mac installers a while back and lost me completely. Did you download the .dmg file for Audacity 1.2.5?
Did the installer make you put your password in?
Koz