Re: [Audacity-devel] Using LAME for MP3 import

[Michael S. <msc...@gm...>]

On Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:13:59 +0000, Richard wrote:

> > Since the LAME library is dlopen'ed by Audacity for optional exporting
> > to MP3 format, has anyone considered using it also to import MP3 files?
> 
> What would the benefit be? The assumption is that libMAD is a better
> decoder, and has fewer license issues, so we have always used that. You
> can of course get to the MP3 decoder in ffmpeg from Audacity, which I
> think is LAME.

Well, the benefit would be that Audacity could import MP3 files (and
not just decode them) after simply installing the fully optional LAME
library that would be dlopen'ed. This is specific to Linux distributions
that cannot build Audacity with linked MP3 libraries:

  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ForbiddenItems#MP3_Support

For stuff like FFMpeg or MAD, users need to erase Audacity and replace
it with 3rd party packages.

Not a big issue. Just wondered... ;)