By default, Audacity doesn’t allow you to “Save as MP3”. This step-by-step guide will show you how to ‘enable MP3 support’ so that you can save files in Audacity as MP3s.
LAME is a free codec for encoding MP3. It is being used by a lot of software which support MP3 such as CDex, WinAmp, Cripple and a lot more. And Audacity is among the software solutions which use LAME. Home » Audacity: How To Remove LAME Mac OS X. Uninstalling Audacity from our Mac computers. For a minute there, we even thought that something had changed and that the popular MP3 encoding software was somehow included in the installation. LAME is a high quality MPEG Audio Layer III (MP3) encoder licensed under the LGPL. LAME is only distribued 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. LAME development started around mid-1998.
How To Download Lame For Audacity On Mac
Under 'For Audacity on Windows', left-click the link 'Lame v3.99.3 for Windows.exe' and save the file anywhere on your computer. Do not right-click the link to the.exe file. Double-click 'Lame v3.99.3 for Windows.exe' to launch it (you can safely ignore any warnings that the 'publisher could not be verified'). Home » Audacity: How To Remove LAME Mac OS X Audacity: How To Remove LAME Mac OS X December 5, 2012 by Brian Ball.
For instructions on how to enable MP3 editing and saving in Audacity for Windows, click here. For the Mac OS X instructions, click here.
How to “Save as MP3” in Audacity for Windows
How To Install Lame For Audacity On Mac
- Start out by heading over to the LAME download page for Windows (link will open in a new tab/window). Scroll down to the link titled Lame_v3.99.3_for_Windows.exe and click it to download the required file. Note: the version of LAME for Windows at the time of this writing, is 3.99.3. By the time you get to this guide, it may be a newer (higher) version number – for example 3.99.4 or even a version 4.0. The steps will almost certainly be nearly identical if the version has changed.
- Once you’ve downloaded the LAME for Windows file, double-click it. This will run the Setup process, which is very straight forward. The only “important” part is that you do not change the default installation location. Just “leave it alone” and keep clicking “Next” until you’re done :)
- Now launch Audacity. Open a file and then select Export. MP3 will now be available as an option! You’re all done.
How to “Save as MP3” in Audacity for OS X (Mac)
- Start out by heading over to the LAME download page for OS X (link will open in a new tab/window). Scroll to the section titled For Audacity 1.3.3 or later on Mac OS X 10.4 and greater and download the file Lame_Library_v3.98.2_for_Audacity_on_OSX.dmg. Note: at the time of writing, the version of the Lame Library is “3.98.2”. It may be a newer version by the time you read this, but that’s OK.
Save the file to your Downloads folder and once it’s finished downloading, double-click the .dmg to open it. From inside the DMG file, double-click the LAME .pkg file.
- The installation is as straight forward as you’d expect. You’ll mostly click Continue a bunch of times.
- When prompted for your password, enter it and then click the Install Software button.
- Once the installation has completed, launch Audacity. When you Export an audio file, MP3 Files is now an option! That’s it – you’re done :)