Select the new iTunes menu item Import with LAME…Ī new iTunes-LAME window will appear that looks like this: Open iTunes and insert a CD into your computer. (It may take a long while to open the first time you run it). In iTunes there should me a new menu item between window and help. The creat a new folder (if it doesn’t already exist) called ‘Scripts’Ĭopy the two LAME files into this scripts folder. To do this in the finder select ‘Go’, ‘Go to Folder’ from the top menu and type in ~/Library/iTunes Copy both these files into your ~Library/iTunes/Scripts folder. Download the iTunes LAME Encoder.ĭownload the iTunes-LAME Encoder from here (I have a local copy here in case that link changes) and unzip it.ĭownload the Import with LAME script from here and unzip it. It runs from within iTunes, via a drop down script menu. They have a pretty lame logo (see above) probably because they are unpaid programmers not graphic artists.

Some people now claim it is the best mp3 encoder available. Slowly as many people worked on LAME it actually overtook the original mp3 encoder. It was originally not as good as the commercial mp3 encoders. Lame is an mp3 encoder that is open source, which means rather than being developed commercially, it was developed by unpaid programmers sharing together.

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