mp3 on MAC Part II

[tiagudo]

Justin,
I found and downloaded a version of the libmp3lame.dylib codec and threw it into my plugins folder and I am now fully able to record to multitrack mp3 files. Did I find something new or did you expect this to work just fine. On the previous thread I was wondering if this was possible and you promised something for the next build, but I'm still running the same .98 on my MacBook.
Cheers!
Tiago.

[Tom Drinkwater]

cool, i will try this,

it would also be great if the shoutcast plugin were available for the osx version...

[mrelwood]

I tried and succeeded in rendering the master mix to mp3 with the same trick. But the rendering is rather slow. Rendering a single wav file to mp3 goes only 2.7x realtime on an Intel C2D 2MHz 2GB MacBook.

I guess this will improve.

[HobbyCore]

I figured this out on my own as well, and everything works great.

Encoding is rather slow though. I can render to wav, and manually convert to MP3 via switch faster than reaper does it by itself... but it's not nearly as convenient :)

[Ben Srokosz]

I can't get this to work. I downloaded the libmp3lame.dylib file and pasted it into the reaper plugins folder. when i go to render option, still no mp3/

What am I doing wrong?
thanks

[dfackler]

... I downloaded the libmp3lame.dylib file and pasted it into the reaper plugins folder. when i go to render option, still no mp3/

What am I doing wrong?
thanks

You say 'pasted' the .dylib file into the Reaper plugins-- did you really 'paste' or did you drag the icon into the plugin directory? I put the .dylib file 'loose' in the Reaper plugin folder. Like this:

Applications folder(that's where Reaper lives on my Mac)--->Reaper 098 ---> Reaper---> Plugins--->libmp3lame.dylib


This works for me.

Dan

[Ben Srokosz]

You say 'pasted' the .dylib file into the Reaper plugins-- did you really 'paste' or did you drag the icon into the plugin directory? I put the .dylib file 'loose' in the Reaper plugin folder. Like this:

Applications folder(that's where Reaper lives on my Mac)--->Reaper 098 ---> Reaper---> Plugins--->libmp3lame.dylib


This works for me.

Dan

Yup, I dragged the file into the folder just like it shows you

But still nothing on the render function.

[HobbyCore]

I can't get this to work. I downloaded the libmp3lame.dylib file and pasted it into the reaper plugins folder. when i go to render option, still no mp3/

What am I doing wrong?
thanks

I had to restart OS X (and reaper obviously) before it'd recognize for some reason.

[dfackler]

This is odd. If you look at my image(Picture 2.jpg) you'll see the icons for the various plugins are those of Unix-executable files. Yours are generic file icons. For some reason, your Mac is not identifying them properly. In the pre-OS X days, we'd say the 'type' and 'creator' codes were set incorrectly.

Another thing I find interesting is that even without the libmp3lame.dylib installed, the pulldown menu in the render window displayed an mp3 option on my Mac. If mp3 were selected, Reaper would grouse at me about no LAME library being installed. I just verified this by removing libmp3lame.dylib from the plugin folder.

I think you need to run some sort of hard disk diagnostics, then remove and reinstall Reaper. Using Disk Utility, verify that permissions are set correctly.

If I think of any other tricks, I'll be back...

Dan

[coucou]

Had the same problem and solved it just by deleting the Reaper file into the Applications directory and instead placing the reaper app within the same directory of the Reaper "plugins", then it works fine.
So you will have within Applications / Reaper / Reaper app and all the other reaper folders (themes, plugins etc)