# Audacity and Lame Deployment (macOS)

## Description

Audacity is a great free, open source, cross-platform audio software for Mac OS, Windows, and Linux.

## Ingredients

- FW Central
- Latest version from Audacity ([https://www.audacityteam.org/download/](https://www.audacityteam.org/download/))
- Latest version of Lame for Audacity ([https://lame.buanzo.org/](https://lame.buanzo.org/))

## Directions

##### Audacity Application

The application is a simple drag-n-drop deployment

1. Download the latest
2. open the download and move the application to your applications folder
3. Drag it form your application folder to your FileWave admin Fileset View

##### Lame 

The Lame libraries are an add-on best sent as a secondary fileset.

1. Download the latest version of lame for Audacity
2. uncompress the download and install
3. Download the attached template fileset - [Audacity Plugin - LAME-Template.fileset.zip](https://kb.filewave.com/attachments/172)
4. Uncompress and import into FileWave Admin
5. Replace the placeholder file with the ones from your system

<table id="bkmrk-%C2%A0-lame-fileset-befor"><thead><tr><th> </th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>[![image.png](https://kb.filewave.com/uploads/images/gallery/2023-07/scaled-1680-/XlgZLWxB1UQ9bMkm-image.png)](https://kb.filewave.com/uploads/images/gallery/2023-07/XlgZLWxB1UQ9bMkm-image.png)

</td></tr><tr><td>Lame fileset before</td></tr></tbody></table>

<table id="bkmrk-%C2%A0-lame-fileset-after"><thead><tr><th> </th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>[![image.png](https://kb.filewave.com/uploads/images/gallery/2023-07/scaled-1680-/IJZGPK2tGtMME8wB-image.png)](https://kb.filewave.com/uploads/images/gallery/2023-07/IJZGPK2tGtMME8wB-image.png)

</td></tr><tr><td>Lame fileset after</td></tr></tbody></table>