ACX Check plugin won't load

[AthenaNotch]

I discovered that Lame was installed correctly on my machine - the entire 10 times I re-installed it. I'm sharing my revelation here in case it helps anyone else who is struggling.

In reading various forums, I had thought I was supposed to see Lame show up under the Effects menu in Plug-ins in Audacity, which it never did. I'm not sure where the disconnect was or where more information lies re: how to confirm a successful installation, but I was able to confirm that Lame was installed correctly by doing the following:
1. Creating a test audio file
2. Going to 'File'
3. Then 'export'
4. Then 'mp3' will be an export option

If you see mp3 as an option for exporting your file, Lame has installed correctly.

I learned that by simply opening Audacity and selecting 'File', then 'export', that the 'mp3' option is greyed out. You have to actually create an audio file, not just open one in order for the mp3 option to appear.

As for the ACX Check plug in, I was able to successfully enable that in the Plug-ins menu in Audacity after searching my computer for the 'hidden' library referenced above. I guess I somehow missed that there were two libraries with the same things in them so I kept dropping ACX in a folder that looked exactly the same as instructions described, yet it wasn't the right folder.

Thanks everyone who helped me complete these tasks.

[steve]

1. Creating a test audio file
2. Going to 'File'
3. Then 'export'
4. Then 'mp3' will be an export option

If LAME is not installed correctly, then there will still be an "option" to export as MP3, but the export will fail, with an error message to say that LAME could not be found (so this method does indeed let you know if LAME is correctly installed).

Another way to check if LAME is installed, is to look in "Preferences > Libraries" https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/lib ... ences.html
If this shows a version number for LAME, then it is installed correctly. If it says "Lame library not found", then LAME is not installed correctly, or is installed in a non-standard location and Audacity can't find it.

[steve]

As for the ACX Check plug in, I was able to successfully enable that in the Plug-ins menu in Audacity after searching my computer for the 'hidden' library referenced above. I guess I somehow missed that there were two libraries with the same things in them so I kept dropping ACX in a folder that looked exactly the same as instructions described, yet it wasn't the right folder.

I'm hoping to make this easier in the future, though it is unlikely that this improvement will make it into the next release. I've written a small utility plug-in that can install Nyquist plug-ins into the correct location, just by selecting the ".ny" file and clicking "OK". As this utility is itself a Nyquist plug-in, it is only really useful if it is included with Audacity by default, otherwise users will have exactly the same problem installing it as they do installing other Nyquist plug-ins.