I read your article Audacity can't save mp3 audio files and am still puzzled because I downloaded the LAME Mp3 converter but still cannot convert to mp3. Do I have to put the LAME library somewhere special?
2020-3-22 Because of patent considerations, Audacity cannot ship with a built-in encoder to export MP3 files, but is able to use the third-party LAME encoder. This page explains how to download and install the correct LAME encoder for your system, and outlines the.
Lame installation location If you look at your second location of LAME, that is the decoder.dll,.Select Destination Location. When you have finished downloading the ZIP folder, unzip it and save the file lame enc.dll that it contains to anpmere on.How To Install + Setup Audacity in Windows 7.
2011-11-24 I'm a new poster, but I did not see anything about the Mac Audacity 1.3.11 installers for the lame lib or the new aac compression item. They 'self-install' to a foreign location which I cannot find. I'm guessing that it is a failed attempt. Why it is not setup as a simple unpackage which can be stored at the user's chosen location seems odd to me.
LAME is only distributed in source code form. For binaries and GUI based programs which can use LAME (or include fully licensed versions of LAME), check the LAME related links. All software from the LAME project can be found in the project's file area.
Current Versions
The current release version of LAME is 3.100
Source code tarballs of the versions can be downloaded from SourceForge.
LAME compiles on Windows, DOS, GNU/Linux, MacOS X, *BSD, Solaris, HP-UX, Tru64 Unix, AIX, Irix, NeXTstep, SCO Unix, UnixWare, Ultrix, Plan 9, OpenVMS, MacOS Classic, BeOS, QNX, RiscOS, AmigaOS, OS/2, SkyOS, FreeMiNT(Atari) and probably a few more.
Development Versions
Lame Library Mac Locations
Lame Library Mac Os X Download
LAME source code is maintained with SVN, hosted on SourceForge.net. For instructions on downloading the current development sources, go to the SVN information page of the LAME project on SourceForge.net.
Lame Library Mac
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Audacity Installation
Windows Installation
Go to http://www.audacityteam.org/download/ and select Windows.
Left-click on the installer file. Right-clicking and saving the file will not work.
Follow Setup Wizard instructions to complete the installation.
Go to http://lame.buanzo.org/ and click the 'Windows Downloads' link.
Left-click the installation package.
Follow Setup Wizard to install (you can ignore any warnings that the 'publisher could not be verified').
Do not change the default install destination.
Step 3: Exporting Audio
Launch Audacity.
Click the red circle to record any audio you wish to save as an MP3 file, then click the tan 'stop' button.
Go to File>Export Audio...
Change the file type to MP3.
Export.
If you receive an error 'Audacity needs the file libmp3lame.dylib to crete MP3s', select the location of the LAME file on your computer and press OK.
Mac Installation
Go to http://www.audacityteam.org/download/ and select Mac.
Left-click the .dmg file.
Double click the downloaded file.
When prompted, drag the Audacity.app icon to the Applications shortcut.
Step 2: Install LAME Encoder
Go to http://lame.buanzo.org/ and click the 'Mac Downloads' link.
Left-click the .dmg installation package.
Double click the 'Lame Library v* for Audacity.pkg' file.
If you get an error that looks like this:Right-click the .pkg file and click Open.
Follow the setup instructions to complete the installation.
Launch Audacity.
Click the red circle to record any audio you wish to save as an MP3 file, then click the tan 'stop' button.
Go to File>Export Audio...
Change the file type to MP3.
Export.
If you receive an error 'Audacity needs the file libmp3lame.dylib to create MP3s', select the location of the LAME file on your computer and press OK.