Using LAME on Ubuntu
February 3, 2009
Here’s another that’s mainly for my own future reference and may be useful to you. Actually, my main source is the first result for “ubuntu libmp3lame.so.0” on Google, so who knows if it’ll be useful.
Basically, even if you download the codecs certain media players need to play MP3s under Ubuntu, you still won’t have the proper library for exporting MP3s with, for instance, my favorite audio editor Audacity. The library you need to do this would be the open-source LAME library
To fix this, go into the Synaptic package manager and select the “liblame0″ and “liblame-dev” packages. Install them. This will put the file libmp3lame.so.0 in the /usr/lib/ directory, right where Audacity expects to find it.
You probably only need one of those packages, but it doesn’t hurt to install both. Enjoy your self-produced MP3s.
