Getting SC to Recognize Lame on Mac OS X?

[ezkcdude]

I asked this question in another thread, but haven't received any replies. Does anyone currently have Lame working with SC on a Mac? I've set up internet streaming using DynDns, so I can listen to my home library at work. Only problem is most of my stuff is encoded at a relatively high bit (~200-300) rate, and my upload speed is only around 300kbs, so it really bogs down everything. I'd like to do the bitrate limiting down to 128kbs, but I can't seem to get Lame to work. Right now I have the lame executable in "/Library/Application Support/SqueezeCenter/Plugins/". I have stopped and started SC several times and re-booted the computer to no avail. Any help would be much appreciated.

[Hannes]

Does anyone currently have Lame working with SC on a Mac?

Put it in /Library/PreferencePanes/SqueezeCenter.prefPane/Contents/server/Bin/darwin/ and restart SqueezeCenter. This setup works for me.

Hannes

[danco]

The problem with that solution is that an upgrade of SqueezeCenter would almost certainly delete lame.

It might be worth trying (I haven't tried it myself) creating a folder /Bin/darwin inside Application Support/SqueezeCenter and putting lame in that.

If it works at all, it would persist through upgrades.

[ezkcdude]

Put it in /Library/PreferencePanes/SqueezeCenter.prefPane/Contents/server/Bin/darwin/ and restart SqueezeCenter. This setup works for me.

Hannes

Huzzah! Thanks, so much. It worked.

[charles78]

@ ezkcdude

Hello, I've been struggling with the exact same issue for a while. I have Lame installed but SC does not see it.

Which file did you put into /Library/PreferencePanes/SqueezeCenter.prefPane/Contents/server/Bin/darwin/ ?

I have put the one below with no success:

-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 Guest _guest 440532 24 aoû 22:42 libmp3lame.dylib

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Charles

[ahc]

These instructions (from http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/AAC) worked perfectly for me--and have solved my problems with getting iTunes+ songs to play without rebuffering:

1. download and install iTunes-LAME from http://blacktree.com/apps/iTunes-LAME/

2. iTunes-LAME should go in ~/Library/iTunes/Scripts

3. Restart the SlimServer service

4. Go to the Player Settings > Audio page and check under BitRateLimiting for this text "The LAME encoder appears to be installed correctly on your system."

[charles78]

Thanks for the info, I tried. Still no success, SC does not find it...

drwxr-xr-x 3 utilisateur staff 102 25 aoû 07:40 iTunes-LAME.app

Any idea how to debug this one?