Deploy audacity with lame encoder

[itgeek]

Hi We need a way to deploy audacity wit the lame encoder ideally an msi?


Thanks

[sted]

probably easiest way to do it as an msi would be using winstall le on a referance pc and captureing the before/after state. Problem with audacity is iirc that the pointer to the lame codec is stored in hkey current ujser so needs adding to every user that logs in

[Dom_]

Audacity MSI needed - take the last zip from tomscaper.

[mats]

There's a nice gotcha - be aware that if you remote desktop into a machine to check it's installed ok, Audacity can (will?) crash ungracefully. You can then spend a while chasing your tail when it's actually installed fine.

I used an msi fwiw.

[sjatkn]

Hi We need a way to deploy audacity wit the lame encoder ideally an msi

I didn't install it to the desktops, I installed it to a share and put the lame encoder there to. To make sure the lame encoder is discovered you just need to copy audacity.cfg to application data, I did this in the logon script. It's also worth changing the default quality to 16bit from 32bit to reduce disk usage, unless you have a reason to leave it.

The .cfg is created on first run so run Audacity set your options and then just hunt it down in Application Data.

[SimpleSi]

I use audacity portable.
Deploy it to a machine in a folder (I use c:\apps\aud)

Add in Lame encoder

Do a test and make sure everything works.
Export c:\apps\aud back out to a network share and then build a script to deploy it clients.

regards

Simon