Go here: ftp://geek.rcc.se/pub/mp3encoder/lame/
Grab the latest one (3.51 as of 11/24/99). Untar-unzip the .tar.gz file cd lame3.51 make (as root) make install You may need to edit the Makefile, but I did not on my system. Sean Stuart Ballard wrote: > > Dumb question - could anyone give me an "idiots walk-through" of > installing LAME? It's probably somewhere simple, but all the stuff about > "LAME won't even compile by itself" on the web page put me off. And of > course there's no package for it... > > Thanks very much in advance, > Stuart. > > Sean Johnson wrote: > > > > I used to compress @ 224 or 256 kbps with bladeenc, but now that I've > > been using lame instead, I encode at 128 kbps and end up with files that > > are quite a bit smaller and sound just as good. Lame also allows for > > variable rate encoding which for many songs lets me drop the bitrate > > down to 112 kbps and still maintain the same audio quality. > > > > Sean > >