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[lacart]

I downloaded Lame, I installed it, but I am unable to find the installed file that Audacity keeps asking me to locate. What is it called and where is it?

[steve]

Have you seen the instructions on this page: http://audacityteam.org/help/faq?s=install&i=lame-mp3

[lacart]

I don't get what it means by "install "libmp3lame.dylib" in /usr/local/lib/audacity". Where do I find these? The installation never gave me an opportunity to choose where to save such a file, and I can't find it anywhere.

[Gale Andrews]

There are possibly easier instructions here.

I don't get what it means by "install "libmp3lame.dylib" in /usr/local/lib/audacity".

The LAME installer installs "libmp3lame.dylib" in the "audacity" folder in /usr/local/lib/ for you if you don't change the defaults. If you are using the current Audacity 1.3.13 Beta you should not need to do more than that, because Audacity will automatically look for LAME in "/usr/local/lib/audacity".

What version of OS X are you using? If there are permissions problems on OS X 10.6, Audacity may not be able to find the dylib file if you installed it to /usr/local/lib. In that case the easiest fix is to run the installer again and change the options so that the dylib file is installed to your Desktop or somewhere else in your own user space. Then click Audacity > Preferences: Libraries and use the "Locate..." button opposite "MP3 library" to navigate to the dylib file and open it.



Gale

[lacart]

When I run the LAME installer, there are some bullet points on the side, one of which is Destination Select. The program always skips this step. Why? How do I change the destination? I have no idea where /usr/local/lib/ is.

[kozikowski]

It's further up the computer structure than most applications and tools. You can force the Mac to go there from the desktop.

Go > Go To Folder > type in the address. Don't forget the leading slash.

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Koz

[lacart]

When I did that it said I didn't have permission to see it's contents.

[Gale Andrews]

I am not on a Mac, but you may need to log in as root before you can access /usr like that. You can try entering this command in a terminal:

sudo chmod -R 755 /usr/local/lib/audacity

That will give you permissions to read and execute on the directory usr/local/lib/audacity. It may help Audacity recognise the dylib file assuming you have already installed it. If that doesn't help, then you will need to go through extra hoops, one of which is to try Go > Utilities > Disk Utilities > Verify Disk and Repair Permissions.

Rather than that, I made a zip of the download file. If you want the easy solution, download this:
http://www.gaclrecords.org.uk/Lame_Libr ... on_OSX.zip

Extract libmp3lame.dylib to your Desktop or somewhere else in your own user space (a modern Mac should be able to extract from a zip with its built-in utility). Then click Audacity > Preferences: Libraries and use the "Locate..." button opposite "MP3 library" to navigate to the dylib file you extracted and open it.

When we rebuild installers next time we will have the Lame and FFmpeg installers install to /Library/Application Support/audacity/libs which will not be a restricted location.



Gale