iTunes-LAME Encoder

Name: iTunes-LAME Encoder
Rating: 4.35 (5 reviews)

2.0.9

26 October 2007

Boost iTunes' sound quality with LAME encoding.

Overview

iTunes-LAME Encoder bridges the gap between iTunes and the LAME command line encoder. It joins the simple interface of iTunes with the higher quality of the LAME encoder.

What's new in iTunes-LAME Encoder

Version 2.0.9:

ID3v1 Tags
Working Unicode support

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Let's face it. A LAME '--alt-preset standard -Z' encode is going to beat out just about any other MP3 or AAC file you create, from any encoder. Sure, it's slower than the iTunes standard, but good things come to those who wait.

Version 2.0

Used to uses this before with Snow Leopard. In later Mac OS Versions it stopped working. Then I started to use XLD, what is great, too. No it works again with High Sierra and iTunes 12.7.3 on my Macbook Air! What a surprise! I have an older Lame version (3.97) installed and with that it works superp. Use this preset with Lame versions 3.97 and higher: -V2 --vbr-new --vcomment

Version 2.0.9

I've used/loved this for years. Just updated to Mountain Lion/iTunes 10. Now it hangs on "gathering information". Any help?

Version 2.0.9-34

2 answer(s)

Philips666

01 January 2013

iTunes LAME is still plugging away for me even in iTunes 11. If it hangs at *gathering information* it might not be able to find your source files. This has been the case with me in the past.

davidinracine

03 March 2017

Same here. I used to love iTunes-LAME through about 2010 but it hasn't worked since then... it always hangs at "gathering information" on every track. LAME still works fine via the command line, but that's a pain in the backside. So sorry to lose this once-glorious front end to LAME! I wish somebody would fill the gap.

Any update on this? Doesnt work with iTunes 9 or 10.

Version 2.0.9-34

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Caschreier

01 March 2012

It does work with iTunes 10 under OSX Snow Leopard. May be not with Lion, I haven't made the switch yet because of some PPC applications I still use. But if you are not going to write a review, don't give a bad score, just write a comment. I still use this program and it works flawlessly.

Better with tags, but slower: I'm glad to see they've worked out the tagging issues. Now all the tags seem to make it to the encoded files, though some Unicode still gets mangled (accented Greek characters, so far, in my experience). Still, a definite improvement over 2.0.8, which just lost ~75% of tags! I do notice, though, that this version runs at about 40% the speed of 2.0.8 on my Core 2 Duo 2gHz Macbook. I thought maybe I had a PowerPC version, but Activity Monitor shows it as Intel. I used to get around 12x encoding with "--preset standard", and now I'm at 4.5x. Any ideas?

Version 2.0.9-34

This no longer works for me in iTunes 7.5 and Leopard on MacBook Pro. Not sure if it's an iTunes issue or a Leopard issue. Anyone got this working in these conditions?

Version 2.0.9-34

2 answer(s)

Shock-J

02 December 2007

I got it working. I had a separate install of the LAME framework installed and I think it was conflicting with this one. As soon as I removed the extra framework, this encoder started working.

Version 2.0.9-34

Mdewakanton

25 December 2007

I too had this trouble updating iTunes to 7.5 under Tiger 10.4.9 and could solve it in a different way (Import with LAME didn't show up in Scripts menu): Show package contents > Contents > Resources > Import with LAME....scpt, I put a copy of this script in iTunes Scripts folder and then it correctly showed up in menu and launched iTunes-LAME Encoder. Hope this helps.

Version 2.0.9-34

SUPERB!!! Finally this version of iTunes-Lame is working flawlessly with iTunes > 7.02. No lost tags anymore, no need to rewrite tags. Tags are already written as v2.4. Still recognizes own compiled lame binary. Just perfect. Works in Tiger and Leopard. Thank you so much!

Version 2.0.9-34

where can I find the script that helps me open it from inside iTunes?

Version 2.0.9-34

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Itbjorn

28 October 2007

Did what you said, and nothing new shows in the sripts menu.

Version 2.0.9-34

Itbjorn

28 October 2007

Thanks a lot!

Version 2.0.9-34

iTunes-LAME is a fantastic program, but several months ago it started giving me problems. Would not import all of the tracks, or wouldn't put all the information (ID tags) into the tracks that would actually import. I think because iTunes seems to have an update every couple of weeks, it has changed enough that there are now compatability bugs with the last version of iTune-LAME... if it were brought up to date with the LATEST version of iTunes, the problem would probably be resolved. I MISS using LAME!

Version 2.0.9b4

http://sbooth.org/Max/ you won't need anything else. I once used to use iTunes-LAME... when it used to work.

Version 2.0.9b4

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