Please help........Audacity+Lame Question.......

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6thandpowell

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I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this but.....

I downloaded Audacity so I could Convert ogg. files into Mp3. files.

Then I found out I had to download Lame......so I did.......but when I open to Lame file.....there's like 30 things in the folder.......none of which make any sense.

I've seen the Mac OSX hint page with the info on how to Get it to work......but I'm no genuis with computers and I can't figure it out.


If someone here could explain to me how to do it.......I'd really appreciate it.


Cheers.
 
I just downloaded 'Audacity' v. 1.30b.

I then went to the 'How do I download and install the LAME MP3 encoder?' web page' - from which I naviaged to and downloaded 'LameLib-Carbon.sit'.

When 'audacity-macosx-1.3.0b.dmg' was double clicked on, its' contents ['Languages', 'Audacity.app', 'plug-ins', 'nyquist', 'README.txt', 'LICENSE.txt'] were dragged to a newly created 'Audacity' folder.

When 'LameLib-Carbon-3.91.sit' was double clicked on, its' contents [a single 'LameLib' file] was also dragged to the newly created 'Audacity' folder.

When a downloaded '.oog' file ['paleste2.ogg' from 'ogg.htm'] was dragged onto 'Audacity' (in the newly created 'Audacity' folder) it was imported.

I then selected Audacity's 'File, Export as MP3...' menu item, for the first time, an alert box was presented stating -

''Export MP3

Audacity does not export MP3 files directly, but instead uses LAME, an MP3 exporting library available separately. See the documentation for more informaiton.

Would you like to locate LameLib now?" ...

I clicked on the 'Yes' button, and then navigated to and selected the 'LambLib' file (in the newly created 'Audacity' folder). The '.ogg' file was properly exported to a '.mp3' file.

From then on, any additional '.ogg' to '.mp3' exports were performed without any 'LAME' ('LambLib') notices.
 
When I downloaded Lame.....it didn't just automatically go into the Audacity folder.

It also was not called Lamelib.

The Lame folder has about a thousand things in it.

I'm sorry if I sound like an idiot......I'm pretty new to Mac's.....and computers in general;)


I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong but......it's pissing me off!
 
'When I downloaded Lame.....it didn't just automatically go into the Audacity folder.' - that is most likely correct. The downloaded files will be saved to a folder - via the web browsers' default setting, or designated by the user.
'Safari', for example, saves downloaded files to the 'Desktop' (by default).

'It (the downloaded 'LameLib-Carbon-3.91.sit' file) also was not called Lamelib.' - correct. The actual name of the downloaded file is 'LameLib-Carbon-3.91.sit'.

'The Lame folder has about a thousand things in it.' - no. When 'LameLib-Carbon-3.91.sit' (120 KB in size) is double clicked on a single file 'LambLib' (244 KB in size) results.
 
Yep, put Lame folder in Audacity folder. When it asks you where "LAME" is, find it and click ok. Should work fine after that.
 
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