My little LAME 3.98.4 saga is lame, indeed.
I was running DP 5.13 under Tiger and using LAME 3.97, which I'd gotten from kjams.com as a Mac installer that put the framework and a QuickTime component where they needed to be. MP3 creation with DP was always very simple with this via the Bounce function.
I recently decided to upgrade to Snow Leopard and DP 7. Got the OS up over the weekend and DP 7.23 installed yesterday, followed by immediate upgrade to 7.24. I looked in there to see what came up for bouncing, and the LAME MP3 item was still there, so i selected it out of curiosity, but it said the framework wasn't there. Puzzled why DP would still even have the item there, but so be it.
I'd researched what to do about LAME and had found a number of options for 3.98 for Mac, including:
Two from
http://www.rarewares.org/mp3-lame-bundle.php" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;:
--LAME 3.98.4 for OSX 64 bits (Snow Leopard) compiled by Olivier Petit -- lame3.98.4_OSX_64b.zip -- when I unzipped it, it was just called "lame" with no extension, and it had an icon I'd never seen before, so I had no idea what to do with it.
--LAME 3.98.2 for MacOS X compiled by Paul Sanders -- lame_3.98.2.dmg -- when I opened the disk image, I saw only html files and a .dylib file, and the html making reference to command lines, so this also didn't seem to be what I needed.
At
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Lame_Mac.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; was Paul Sanders' work as well, with several versions at
http://www.free-codecs.com/Lame_Mac_download.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; -- I downloaded Lame 3.98.4 for Mac OS because I figured why not go with the latest version that says 64-bit. I was glad to see lame-3.98.4.pkg open with an installer. But after installing, DP still came up with the same thing -- LAME still in the list of options but saying the framework wasn't there. I took a closer look at the installer and saw a big list of files it said it was adding to the system, none of which turned out to have a .framework extension. Since things weren't working, I tried to look for these files but can't for the life of me find them. So that's lame, since one of the main points of this whole OS upgrade was to have a clean system with everything freshly installed.
I looked back at the first thing I mentioned above, and got info, and I could swear it said it was a folder, so I double-clicked to see what was inside. Yikes, it opened Terminal and seemed to run something. There was some kind of error message, but it also said Process Completed, so I have no idea at all what this may have done to my system. And now, of course, when I get info, it says it's a Unix Executable File (Intel). Ugh.
Though there were two other options for 3.98 at the free-codecs page and some other things coming up in Google, I was sick of trying these new things at this point. I got out the old 3.97 installer -- which, by the way, can be found at
https://karaoke.kjams.com/wiki/Lame" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; under the Mac section -- and after installation DP was back up and running with it just as before. So at least that's a relief.
It would sure be nice, though, to 1) know how one might actually use any of the 3.98 versions with DP, especially the 64-bit, and 2) how I can clean up my system from whatever these two 3.98s may have done to it that DP isn't using.